[–] guinness2 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Yeah, I've been following both C2C and Art for years and signed-up as a subscriber to MITD before it started.
John B Wells was one of my favorite C2C presenters but I wasn't too much of a fan of his Caravan to Midnight show, but I did only listen for the first month or so.
I never experienced the "good" Noory period that you speak of because I've largely found Noory's interview skills to be profoundly lacking. Time after time his guest will refer to something fascinating and Noory will cut them off with some retarded and irrelevant question. The time he asked an astrophysicist if asteroids were intelligent and the time he interrupted a fascinating story from a computer scientists to ask "what is a PDF" were true low points... most of the time he doesn't even seem to be bothered enough to follow what his guests are saying.
C2C's Islamic State episode was awful too... I was looking forward to that because I had so many questions about their strategies and plans and for the entire show Noory didn't ask a singe sensible question even though he interviewed several experts... he just kept asking the same mundane questions again and again... such a waste of everyone's time!
I was hoping that MITD would inspire C2C to try harder, but that doesn't seem to be happening, although George Napp and Dave Schrader do seem to put on some great shows... but Noory is consistently terrible and his topics are repeated over and over and are usually shit. His prediction shows and numerology and reincarnation and angel bullshit it tiresome.
I'll be listening to C2C's Halloween special just to see how bad it is because last years' was entertaining only because it was so bad.
Thanks for the offer, but I've exhausted just about every past C2C episode that interests me thanks to Kickass Torrents.
That said, the one stand-out C2C show that I enjoyed was an interview with police and first responders about their paranormal experiences at the 9/11 twin towers and landfill sites. Even the discussion about why there were absolutely NO food carts on the street the morning of 9/11 was fascinating. If you haven't heard that episode then let me know and I'll track it down for you. That episode was fascinating because I consider the experiences of police and fire fighters to be far more substantial and credible than career deulsionists or crazy-cat-ladies.
I've already got a copy of that specific episode, however do you know of any episodes that were similar in which professional police or fire fighters or emergency services personnel share paranormal stores?
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[–] guinness2 ago
Thank you so much for your entire reply!
You have no idea how awesome it was to read because I hadn't heard of any of the earlier C2C shows you mentioned. I listen to Art and C2C when I run each morning and I'm excited to track down everything you mentioned so I can enjoy it thoroughly. I hate that I skip episodes based on the topics because I often find that the episodes I most look forward to are the least interesting and the ones I expect to be crap are awesome.
The value of your comment made me think: have you considered creating a sticky post or a sidebar link to the best C2C episode list? Perhaps people could contribute to it and a description could tally the votes (I'm not sure exactly how it could work, but it may be a valuable addition to the subverse and I suspect it would attract some viewer from reddit too!).
Yes, I will track down the 9/11 episode and I will add another comment and create a post at /v/911truth. I just had a quick look for it and couldn't find it, but I will definitely track it down shortly.
This is just a quick thank you for your comment, I will post again shortly re: subverse CSS and with 9/11 links.
Peace.
[–] guinness2 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I found the Coast to Coast AM episode about the 9/11 Aftermath & Ghost Sighting:
Coast to Coast AM website link.
Kickass torrent link.
Youtube audio for the entire show.
As discussed, here is the post I made on /v/911truth.
[–] guinness2 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Hi redditbelowsme,
As discussed, I wanted to provide feedback on the /v/CoastToCoastAM subverse.
I love it!
I love the service you are providing because it is essential to so many people!
That said, I am about to be hyper-critical only because I value the subverse you created and I feel compelled to be sincere and honest about my first impressions. Please understand that I consider the subverse to be made of pure awesome and want only to provide constructive criticism.
Also understand and I appreciate that my opinion is only my opinion and you are welcome to take a huge shit on... I have thick skin so feel free express your bowel moment.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
I only visited /v/CoastToCoastAM for the first time a few weeks ago, so I still recall my first impressions. Firstly, I was excited that the subverse was already created.
Warning-constructive-criticism-ahead: I was perplexed about what the banner image represented. I presume it's a radio broadcasting station or a radio telescope of some sort, but I'm still unsure how it relates to C2C.
I love the star-background beneath the post bars and I like the transparent grey background under the post bars that allows the start to be slightly visible.
I like the populated side-bar because it's full of cool stuff, however I think it would look neater if all of the clickable logos were the same width. Perhaps some consistent white space between them would make them seem more individual and logically discrete?
SUGGESTIONS
I've already mentioned this in a comment reply, however I think you'd attract many people if you had a permanent sticky post at the top or a link in the side bar to a "best episodes" post where people could contribute their all-time favorite episodes. Perhaps the sticky post description could contain a list of all of the episodes ordered by comment upvotes that was recalculated every now and then?
Jesus - moderating this subverse must take some time, so I appreciate everything you have achieved and made constructive criticism and suggestions only in the spirit of respect for you and the awesome site you mod.
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
I spent 30 mins designing a very rough alternative to your /v/CoastToCoastAM design only because I felt compelled and perhaps you may like to consider some alternate designs even if you hate the aesthetics. Please understand this was a hack-job that took 30 mins and I only hope that it doesn't offend you. I have no fantasies that you will like and you are welcome to attack me personally and take a shit on it because of free speech, however I provided it because you may also enjoy a different perspective.
Here is an animated gif of an alternate title bar graphic.
Here is an image of an alternate, tiled background texture.
I was inspired partially by the CSS on /v/news, with the slow, continuous smooth scrolling title graphics (that scrolls always and not just when the mouse it over)... the gif is too fast and too jerky and only animated to illustrate a point because the graphic should be scrolled using CSS.
If I were to spend more then 30 mins on the tile graphics, I'd choose the images more carefully, make the sequence longer and make the horizontal delineations less noticeable by transitioning between the images organically using waves and flows.