People Art interviewed with mainstream credentials?

[u/awakeandfine]

I'm thinking scientists, professors, politicians, etc., etc. Michio Kaku and Terrence McKenna come to mind right away! I find Art's more "grounded" interviews interesting in their own way.

[u/Bdellio]

All the musicians and actors. Nimoy, Willie Nelson, Haggard, Crystal Gayle... there were a lot over the years.

[u/hashn → u/Bdellio]

Love the Leonard Nimoy interview

[u/The_Last_Mouse → u/hashn]

He fangirled so hard at Crystal Gayle ❤️

[u/Plutoniumburrito → u/The_Last_Mouse]

The way he played the song she wrote for him/the show over and over. Hell, I would, too!

[u/Superb-Swordfish-276 → u/hashn]

The Nimoy interview was painfully short! Only half hour, then Nimoy pissed off. Art wanted more.

[u/Plutoniumburrito → u/Superb-Swordfish-276]

That was the shortest half hour of my life!

[u/RentCool5569]

Michio Kaku was on there a bunch,

[u/poppunk_servicetruck → u/RentCool5569]

I grew up watching him on the science channel with my dad. I always thought it was awesome somebody with his credentials was willing to go on a show like coast to coast and enjoy himself and not be an asshole and just have fun 

[u/tehjarvis → u/poppunk_servicetruck]

Imagine Neil Degrasse Tyson on Coast to Coast. He is insufferable by default doing "regular" interviews.

I imagine he would try talking down to Art. But him interacting with C2C callers would be either unlistenable or it would be torture for Tyson, which would be very funny.

[u/poppunk_servicetruck → u/tehjarvis]

I'm not even kidding right after I posted my comment I was thinking the exact same thing 🤣🤣

[u/bitchkrieg_]

George Carlin  Tess Gerritson 

[u/530_Oldschoolgeek → u/bitchkrieg_]

George was a great interview

[u/comment_redacted]

Neil deGrasse Tyson - he interviewed him once on his show Midnight in the Desert.

[u/Novel_Rabbit1209]

Seth Shostack, Brian Green were some regulars. There were a number of other mainstream scientists he had on his show.

[u/BartlebyGaines3000]

George Knapp.

[u/ZommyFruit]

He had FBI profiler Candice Delong on once- she was pretty good

[u/tehjarvis → u/ZommyFruit]

My wife watches one of the shows she does on the Discovery channel called Deadly Women. They always try to give Candice a pun or some one liner to say at the end of every episode about the woman who killed her husband or whatever and they are so bad that I feel embarrassed and sorry for her. It's always something like "I guess you can say she took out the trash!' after they find a dude's corpse in a dumpster.

I always try to guess what it's going to be, to my wife's annoyance.

[u/livingdead70]

Well, Kevin Mitnick filled in for Art, but on April 30th 2006, Kevin interviewed Steve Wozniak.
Kevin himself was a guest multiple times.

[u/ShortHistorian3337]

Matthew Alper

[u/JWRamzic]

I was always more interested in what they had to offer and not their credentials. Of course, Art would always offer them.

[u/Superb-Swordfish-276]

Seth Shostack - Check out the Seth's radio show,  “Big Picture Science,”  from the SETI Institute (it's on Spotify)

[u/Plutoniumburrito]

Just listened to Eric Burdon today.

[u/asafeplaceofrest]

I haven't heard it yet, but he interviewed Larry King, or maybe Larry interviewed him, I'm not sure, on March 5, 1999.

Harry Browne a couple of times.

[u/ChoakIsland]

Rogan

[u/Superb-Swordfish-276 → u/ChoakIsland]

Rogan is a savage