THE BAD
Oaness, host of Honoring Mother Earth/Indigenous Voices: A Native American—or whatever he wishes to be called today—Oaness proved, once again, that racism and bigotry is okay when directed toward non-indigenous peoples.
He was insulting, condescending and rude through our pre-interview phone conversation, but I thought he had worked it out of his system. But, no, he was every bit as nasty during the program to the point that even the most open-minded listeners remarked about his attitude.
After the interview, while I was getting the audio ready for upload, he e-mailed to the effect that he wanted a CD of the pristine show sent to him in the event I might done an editing job unfavorable to him for play on the Internet.
I flipped.
Here he was asking for a favor while intimating that I would pull something sleazy on him.
Oaness also suffers from the delusion that the United Nations, which is stroking indigenous peoples everywhere, will return the land to them as the institution has promised. The U.N. has no intention of doing such, but, especially here in the United States, it is using the indigenous people to help advance its Agenda 21, which is designed to take everyone’s land away.
L. Scott Fineberg, member of the Ordo Templi Orientis: Fineberg had popped up on the Gilberts’ blog complaining about rotten doings in an OTO chapter in California. He then got in touch with me and wanted to come on. He regaled me in a pre-interview conversation about the ill treatment he had been receiving at the hands of two of his “brothers.” I warned him that if he were coming on to gripe and bitch, it would not be received well by listeners, who would be anxious to hear if he might reveal some inside information about the OTO. He assured me that he most definitely would do that, but I knew he would, and he did. I sat listening to him for nearly 50 minutes go on about his mistreatment. I barely spoke. I watched the hands of the clock move painfully slow to the point I thought they were moving backward. There is no way a member of a secret organization is going to give up anything meaningful about it.
J.C., associate member of 9-11 Scholars for Truth: This interview was so bad I couldn’t play it. Thankfully, it was a pre-record and not a live interview, which, if it were, I probably wouldn’t have done it, knowing I was taking a chance. This individual was—and still may be—a member of that zany New York 9-11 Truth Movement. In the days when I was getting bombarded by e-mails from the principals locked in an ugly inter-organizational schism, I tapped one of those involved in the e-mailing to come on, but the person was clearly not playing with a full deck, and as the interview continued, I knew I had to gas it. I should’ve known better.
Greg from Occult of Personality: He had been on the show before and did a great job breaking down the symbology in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I asked Greg on again for the first hour of the show I did with Adam Gorightly, The Untamed Grassy Knoll, to reprise that topic. However, this time, Greg clammed up and seemed pained every time he spoke. Clearly, something was up, but whatever it was, he never explained, and I didn’t ask. Once I realized how this live interview was going to go, I was frustrated and angry that he’d lay down like that. Poor Adam didn’t know what to think, having never heard Greg’s first appearance. With no other choice, really, Adam and I kept it going, limping every second of the way.
George Green of Global Insights: I had invited him on to speak to the books and authors he published, given the very favorable response elicited by a previous guest, Dean Henderson, whose book, Big Oil and Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf, Green offered on his site.
Right from the outset of the interview, however, Green was all about Green. He gave a bio of himself, stated how important he was, and dropped as many illustrious names as possible before heading off on a screed about his religious philosophies, UFOs, and other forgettable drek.
Last autumn, he freaked out his devotees with histrionic projections about a total economic collapse that did not happen and, if I understand one of his fans correctly, he also predicted an invasion by extraterrestrials.
The only thing apocalyptic about Green is that he is a gas bag of biblical proportions.
Gregg Hallett, author of Hitler was a British Agent: Used an anonymous source as a major contributor to the inside information contained in his book, which is a bogus device to employ for any serious researcher. Hallett didn’t mention the Vatican’s Rat Line in conjunction with Hitler’s being spirited out of Germany, which I find incredible in every sense of the word. This is another guy who is more about selling whatever salacious stuff he slaps together than crafting a scholarly work.
Sofia Smallstorm Shafquat, a k a Princess Rain-in-the-Face, a k a The Flower Girl: Looking and sounding like a wizened hippy ingénue of the sixties, Sofia did a great work with her documentary 9-11Mysteries, then morphed—as I would find out when last she came on the show—into a spokesperson for a beat-the-IRS scam she wouldn’t participate in herself. Her interview turned into an infomercial for a scam concocted by an individual who, months after Sofia’s appearance, in Feb. 2009, “had been arraigned on an indictment charging him with 10 counts of filing false documents with the Internal Revenue Service,” according to the Tax Protestor Dossiers website at http://tpgurus.wikidot.com.
Good luck with that, Zeke.
When I received several e-mails critical of this individual and his scheme, I conveyed the feedback to Sofia, who became irritiated at the challenges. I inquired that if the scheme was so good, why didn’t she use it? She replied, “It’s not about me.” Right. Nice cop out.
Hey, Princess, make sure you visit your buddy when he lands in the Big House.
Albany 9-11 Truth Movement: Andy Senior and I talked about this group before I invited their representatives on. Neither of us had a real good feeling about them. Andy rightfully questioned how the Albany group could be independent when taking funds from SUNY Albany, which was attended by one of the principals in the group. When I had them on, it wasn’t necessarily a free-flowing show. One of the guests, Mike Metzger sounded especially uncomfortable. They never posted our audio on their site, nor did they link to it on mine. I found that curious, but not wholly unexpected. They were also promoters of Alex the Mouth. I learned not long after the interview that Metzer jumped ship and became a recovered 9/11 truther and born-again denier. This is yet another prime example of the fluster cucks the 9/11 truth movement has become famous for.
(Tie) Authors Jerry Smith and Kenn Thomas: Even another author who read some of Smith’s stuff found he couldn’t endorse it because of Smith’s shoddy research. When Harry listened to the interview Smith and I did in back of his book, HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy, he became visibly nauseated.
Thomas is clearly about Thomas and seems to pick topics for his books that are very intriguing but not necessarily substantive. He came on The Untamed Grassy Knoll as Gorightly’s guest. A listener wanted me to have Thomas back on my show. I asked the listener to feel Thomas out in an e-mail. He did, then received a response from Thomas trying to pitch him to buy his books. ‘Nuff said.
The Angel Lady a k a Sue Storm: This interview was a favor for the late Aerielle Louise, who booked guests for talk shows. Aerielle and I had some very nice conversations and she gave me some good guests like John Hutchison (who would later screw both of us by stoning me right before his second appearance on my live365 show) so I was willing to throw in an interview like this, which I wouldn’t otherwise do.
Michael Trudeau also knew Aerielle from his GCN days and, ironically, Louise lived and died in Burnsville, Minnesota, home to GCN. Aerielle had complained to me about the heat in the summer of 2006 and again in 2007. She mentioned she might try to get to the mountains of North Carolina to escape an especially brutal heat wave in the summer of ‘07. Apparently, she never made it, succumbing in late July.
I chose to include this account here because I liked Aerielle a great deal and because the Angel Lady interview sucked so bad. I don’t believe in her kind of crap, which in and of itself is no big deal, but she was not a very good guest, giving me the briefest possible answers to my questions, which I was fast running out of to the point that I began squirming 25 minutes into the show. I still have nightmares.
