For some reason, I never considered Art Bell to be as toxic as Liddy and Limbaugh - but you're right.

And YAAAAS. Jose Chung's From Outer Space is the best episode, hands down. It's like the entire series was birthed just so we could have that one episode. I wish the entire series had been like that. And Bad Blood. And Post-Modern Prometheus. THOSE are the episodes that really made the series what it was, along with the Monster Of The Week eps. But no, CC had to turn the fun UFO/monster hunt into right-wing conspiracy theorist propaganda.