THE GOOD
Pat Anderson with Bobby Schindler: Terri Schiavo’s former lawyer and her brother came on to discuss what was still a legal battle to get the Schindlers custody of Terry.
Anderson, with her southern drawl, cutting commentary, and no-nonsense approach, was compelling in her delivery of the events that had transpired since Terry’s accident. Anderson also liberally and rightfully deferred to Bobby, who kept the discussion in perspective, retaining the human element so often overlooked in that tragic legal battle: the voice of the principal who had been deprived of a voice, namely, Terry.
Anderson would come on one more time with me. Later, when Jack Blood—with Genesis Communication Network at the time—got stuck for a guest, he called me and I suggested I try to get Anderson to come on because the Schiavo-Schindler battle was still raging on only miles from me in Pinellas County.
Blood was fine with that, and Anderson agreed, and the resultant show was informative and moving to say the least. Unfortunately, that interview has most likely been lost. I couldn’t record it since I was at work and could only squirrel away wherever I could get on the phone to secure some privacy, unfortunately without any recording equipment. And I have no idea what became of Blood’s archives after he left GCN.
An Illinois family (names withheld) who waged a successful battle to extricate their daughter from the overreaching clutches of the state’s child protective services: We did two shows, both with call-ins, with the latter show airing the daughter’s recounting of her ordeal.
The daughter had an extremely rare disorder that took years to identify. In the meantime, CPS deemed the family unfit to raise her. The story is too convoluted to recap here, but our interviews went through the history of this horror.
The family keeps in touch, but wishes not to be mentioned nor interviewed further, fearing retaliation from The State.
Thankfully, this story had a happy ending—though one that will remain tenuous until the daughter reaches adulthood and is free from the clutches of the Illinois CPS.
Mauri, author of Reflections in the Night: The emotional content conveyed by Mauri was absolutely gut-wrenching.
Just after World War II, Mauri was used as a commodity by her closet-Nazi parents and subjected to mind-control, torture, and unspeakable abuses. Her story is chronicled in her book, which is available at her website: http://reflectionsinthenight.com.
Crystal and Sarah D’Souza: If anybody ever doubted the reality of electronic harassment and gang stalking, they need only listen to these very bright and well-adjusted sisters out of Sacramento, California.
A Pakistani-Catholic family, long entrenched in their neighborhood, suddenly was perceived as Arab-Muslim by a malignant faction in their neighborhood after the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Near unbelievable stupidity but nevertheless true.
The daughters took some steps to chronicle what was happening to them: They took temperature readings in their home to record anomalous spikes from what they suspected were outside directed energy sources. They created a Faraday cage of sorts in one room to protect themselves from bombardment. When vandalism and confrontations outside the home began to intensify, they logged the threats and torment on video.
I was a party to that harassment as the result of sending them a USPS box that arrived gutted and yellow-taped with a slip that stated the package had arrived in that condition.
The contents were several ounces each of two anti-bacterial powders: frankincense and myrrh. For anyone familiar with the nativity story, those two substances should ring a bell. Both were offered to ensure the health of a newborn Jesus Christ. I sent them to the D’Souza family to use as Lady Vyz and I do: flushing the smoke of the substances, burned like incense, through the ductwork of our home to disinfect the system.
The question will always remain: who in the Sacramento postal office or who in the neighborhood rifled the contents of the box and had the temerity to place that woeful package in the D’Souza’s mailbox?
When last contacted, the sisters were attending law school and, fearing reprisals against their family, were not inclined to do further interviews.
Scott Stevens, former NBC meteorologist out of KPVI-TV, Pocatello, Idaho: Steven’s first interview was with Harry and me. I had found a mention about him in some blog. He was the only mainstream weather person who admitted that there were chemtrails (or aerosol dispersals or spraying or whatever you want to call those thick white columns being laid down over our heads).
Stevens was a great guest, but not long after our interview, he began to advance the reality of star wars between the forces of good and evil raging on in our solar system.
In the days when I was involved with a guest exchange with Genesis Communication Network, I gave Jack Blood Steven’s contact information. Blood had him on and was taken aback with Steven’s belief in actual star wars. I told Blood I feared Stevens was heading toward The Bizarre, yet I had him back on a second and last time, and as he started in with the star wars stuff, Harry, sitting across the studio room at his table, just rolled his eyes.
Eric Margolis, syndicated columnist: Sometimes the chemistry just works going cold into a show, but it’s a shaky intangible you don’t want to have to rely on.
Without having a pre-interview opportunity to speak—something most critical with a first-time guest—I was nevertheless pleasantly surprised to find that our exchange was natural, fast-paced and smooth.
Sometimes the magic works. Sometimes it doesn’t. In this case, it did.
Margolis was a very accommodating guest, though he demonstrated his belief that Republicans and Democrats were really diametrically opposed parties and that Presidents really did implement their own agendas.
The high point of the interview occurred close to its end when I mentioned Sir Halford Mackinder’s view of geopolitics and warfare come the late 20th and/or early 21st centuries.
Margolis was stunned that I would know of Mackinder and his projections because they apparently have been so overlooked.
Therefore, for the remainder of the interview, we discussed Mackinder’s projections for the world to come: that the next and most likely empire will be founded upon Eurasia—the land mass between Lisbon and Vladivostok—and that geopolitics would no longer center on the United Kingdom, geographically and politically adrift from Europe, and the United States, geographically and politically adrift from the Eastern Hemisphere.
Michael Elliott: Ah, the mysterious Michael Elliott, if that’s his real name, and there’s a real good chance it’s not.
Elliott, a Canadian, supposedly had earned a Ph.D., supposedly was a physicist.
And he may have been and done all that.
It’s just that Elliott kept himself deliberately shrouded in mystery. Whenever we were to speak or interview, he insisted on calling me, whether at home or work or the radio station. If this practice had taken place in the current age of caller ID displays, I’m not sure what Elliott would’ve done to mask his whereabouts, but I’m sure he would’ve found a way.
Elliott, a legitimate 9-11 researcher, was, to be sure, an extremely intelligent individual and he did produce a chapbook entitled Secret Evidence, which, I believe, is his only surviving work.
Elliott had his own website, 911review.org, which he somewhat walked away from. The last few times we spoke, he claimed to be calling from Europe. During those conversations, he asked me if I could pay a month’s fee for the maintenance of his website. I said I would and wound up paying for three months. Unable to get in touch with Elliott, I contacted the host and told them that I was not to be billed further, that I had only gifted Elliott and that I was terminating that arrangement.
Kee Dewdney, another Canadian 9/11 researcher and guest on my show, was involved in the upkeep of Elliott’s site as well, and the both of us had a difficult time extricating ourselves from the host’s demands for payment.
The website continues and makes note that Elliott was its originator. I contacted the present custodian of the site twice by e-mail but to no avail.
Dewdney told me that he made the acquaintance of Elliott during meetings Dewdney was holding to discuss 9/11 and what efforts a concerned group could make toward revealing the truth about the events of that day.
Dewdney said he had originally thought that Elliott was a government mole, but later came to trust him.
Listeners widely liked Elliott’s interviews. He was analytical, intriguing, even his voice was mysterious. He was a great radio guest.
One day the calls stopped. I never heard from him again. And, to this day, I have no idea whatever became of the person known as Michael Elliott.
Ellen Lacter, psychologist and contributor to Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social, and Political Considerations:
The topic of ritual abuse is not an easy one to deal with. Most people cannot fathom that such an atrocity is real. Few can listen to the accounts of ritual abuse without having their emotions roiled. But all who do brave this topic—which might be considered our society’s dirtiest secret—will admit that it should be brought out and kept in the light.
Sadly, what all too few people realize, too, is that this atrocity has become an industry as well.
Lacter, whose practice is centered on dealing with ritual abuse victims, was a guest numerous times and referred both colleagues and victims to the show. Despite the darkness of the field in which she works, Lacter’s empowering attitude and resilient personality emanated hope through the airwaves. In addition, beyond her on-air optimism, Lacter has enabled ritual abuse survivors to emerge victorious, able to heal their wounds and take their lives back.
Joan Mellen, author of A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK’s Assassination, And the Case That Should Have Changed History:
This interview was one of the most interesting for me.
Rarely could I enjoy a book page-by-page. Often I just whizzed through them using my own version of speed reading. However, for several reasons, this was one of those times when I was able to delve into a book.
I was 12 when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Two days after Kennedy was murdered, I watched live the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald on network television.
In the years that passed, it was nearly impossible to escape the debate about who killed Kennedy. By 1977, it had come to the point, for me, where the Garrison investigation just seemed to exhaust an already tired subject.
Mellen’s research into Oswald’s activities prior to Nov. 22 and the information she provided about the cast of lesser and better known characters associated with the assassination in and around both Louisiana and Dallas combine to make a very convincing case that Oswald was a major patsy.
John Muir, horror genre researcher, critic and author: I admit to having wanted to lighten up The Knoll every so often and Muir did just that with his appearances, specifically with the first one we did about what I consider to be the creepiest TV show ever: One Step Beyond.
Muir had conducted the last known interview with the show’s creator and host, John Newland, who performed his host duties with a veiled, macabre delight that was something like —as one blogger on Muir’s site described it—the reaction a mortician might have upon learning of a multi-fatality car wreck out on the interstate.
The interview was great fun and brought me back to a happier time when I, as an eight-to-ten-year-old, was caught up in the imaginative force that was early television.
Interesting, too, was Muir’s surprise at my detailed recollection of my favorite episodes, which was testament to the impact the show had made on me all those years ago.
Honorable mentions: Charlotte Iserbyt, author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America; Carol Simontacchi, author of The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry is Destroying our Minds and Harming our Children; Derry Brownfield, no-nonsense host of a land rights/agriculture show; Rex Curry, a Tampa-based lawyer staunchly opposed to socialist trends in the United States; “Val,” who chronicled her experience regarding the Federal government’s conduct during the Katrina evacuation on abovetopsecret.com; Chris Jurgenson, who spoke to the fraudulent research of Jan Henrik Schön.
