The last time this happened 10 or so years ago:
Some neo-Nazi group was repeatedly calling in, screaming that Art was molesting some kids.
That came at a point when it turned out his only son had been molested by an HIV+ teacher at his public school.
LOTS of his topics I find are silly, but a few were super interesting.
SOME people can’t help but spoil it for all the others...
Dang, that’s horrible. I used to quite enjoy his show if I was up late. Some topics were kooksville...but some not. Sometimes I listen to Caravan to Midnight from YouTube if aI can’t sleep. Great ‘late night’ ambience.
I forgot to add:
During his Coast-to-Coast incarnation 10 years ago, someone also made up lies about Art supposedly having been a part-time porno producer in Salinas, Calif, while he was working as a police dispatcher.
That was a big BS harassment campaign.
THEN, someone probably from the Phillipines took offense to something he said on the air and concocted a letter “from Art himself” decrying the very many ways that he hated Phillipino people. Of course that was and is ridiculous, as he was then married to a partly Phillipina woman and is now married to a full Phillipina.
But somehow that letter was circulated far and wide in the US Phillipino community, and he got very many death threats from that.
Very many times he had to explain how the letter was a total fabrication and had nothing to do with him.
I think these frequent campaigns against him originate in people who are nuts or who have very strong feelings about religion and can’t stand people who have a public voice and entertain ideas about spirituality that are different from their own.
I think Art is gone for good, this time.
The last time this happened 10 or so years ago:
“Some neo-Nazi group was repeatedly calling in, screaming that Art was molesting some kids.
That came at a point when it turned out his only son had been molested by an HIV+ teacher at his public school.
LOTS of his topics I find are silly, but a few were super interesting.
SOME people can’t help but spoil it for all the others...”
I was a teacher and part time administrator at his high school. The accused molester was a substitute teacher. He was never in my class, but I had some dealings with the young man and found him to be a likable person.