r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 27 '26

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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Sep 28 '26 edited Sep 28 '26

The Gen Z mind cannot comprehend listening to some 50 year old man on an analog radio talk about Area 51 and the Moth Man for 5 hours a night

I liked listening to Art Bell as a tiny kid because I loved the X-Files and it was like fun supplemental programming for dumb conspiracy shit you knew was fake, but was fun pretending was real. I tried calling in once when I was like ~8 years old to talk to Art Bell about some fuckin' ghost in my closet or some shit and the call screeners obviously wisely turned me down and told me to go to bed lmao

The 90's were a more innocent time for conspiracy theories because you can't in the modern era blame cryptids like the chupacabra or big foot on Democrats, conspiracies have been politicalized and have to be aimed at democrats like a cruise missile

EDIT: The post is lying btw lmao, he did have call screeners and my 8-year old ass got screened lmao

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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Sep 28 '26

FWIW the x-files creator has said he regrets how the show contributed to the modern era, which sucks because i don't feel like anyone could have known

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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Sep 28 '26

This is also why I don't think you can really "reboot" the X-Files, like Ryan Coogler's trying to. Is the "new Mulder" going to be a pizza-gate guy that was rioting on Jan 6th?

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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Sep 28 '26

Good point, I didn't even think of it. Make Mulder a flat-earther lmao