yb and Patricia Barnstable as Betty I and Betty II in the 1970's SciFi TV comedy "Quark."

Friends,
The media gins up doomsday interpretations about the year 2012, as the “new year 2000.” The format in television hamstrings content providing “bottom-line” sound bytes of what I say without the background. Let us face it, folks, television is a business. It needs to make money and the majority of you prefer to be entertained rather than enlightened. Thus, more time is given to fantastic and fatalistic slants than alternatives.

I understand a television producer’s dilemma perhaps more than most guests on their shows. I was born in Hollywood California. My mother was an MGM dancer and my late father, Harold Austin “Bud” Hogue, remains the youngest studio grip on the union ledgers. (He looked 21 when he was 13 years old.) Bud Hogue worked at every Hollywood studio you have ever seen stamped on the black and white or color movie credits of over 200 films produced in the movie-classic decades of the 1940s and early 1950s. He built interior sets for Orson Welles in The Stranger and ran klieg lights over Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse “dancing in the dark” in my favorite MGM musical, The Band Wagon. I got to know the business through my parents from both sides of the studio lights.

I also once wrote for network television. I co-penned a second-season opener for the Sci-Fi comedy series “Quark” staring Richard Benjamin back in the late 1970s. (By the way, a planned second season was cancelled a week after our script was warmly welcomed with what I recall was the producer yelling, “Where were you guys last year?!”)

My point is this: I understand what producers, directors and writers of prophecy documentaries go through when adapting complicated topics into 48 minutes-per-hour of show time. I have also gone through the gauntlet adapting my books for the documentary TV genre. Every producer, director and writer hiring me in my dual role as guest and expert consultant has heard some of the following observations.

We live in a period of unprecedented caution in the liberal arts, especially in print publications and television documentaries. As funding shrinks, corporate heads necessarily retreat to known, tried and true dogmas of ratings formulae and it is often very hard to get them to come out of that boxed-in mindset even when the evidence begs for going in new directions. Take for example Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and James Cameron’s Avatar. Both films go against most corporate dogma about what sells. They are solid stories with multi-layered characters in very long movies where special effects where not only new and untested innovations but only used to move the story, not the other way around.

Do you wonder why you do not see more movies like that? They certainly made a lot of money and that rightfully is the bottom line for every corporate media head, to go ahead making more solid story movies, because they make a lot of money, right? Lord of the Rings made $3.5 billion and Avatar by itself as of today (11 May 2010) earned a whopping $2,727,946,415.00. Yet, these blockbuster franchises go against the grain of the known. You only need to read what Cameron himself said about years of fights and resistance to Avatar’s originality met at every stage of production.

Rather than being viewed as a litmus test, proving that audiences hunger for intelligent story telling, Avatar and Lord of the Rings are still viewed by a very conservative — not liberal — arts business as risky gambles that got lucky.

I have my own direct experience of this mindset being a guest and expert consultant on over one hundred television productions since 1987. There is almost a wired-in, programmed resistance to move the Nostradamus and prophecy TV genre beyond the familiar cliché of unbalanced doom and gloom sensation. Although a number of my suggestions influence productions over the years — Authentic Entertainment’s 2006 production for a History Channel episode in the Decoding the Past series, entitled, The Other Nostradamus comes closest in the last decade as an example of the direction — I would like to take in this genre beyond the media mask on Nostradamus.

If you want to see some inkling how Nostradamus can be presented unfiltered and balanced with each point backed up, watch this one-hour documentary drawing a comparison between the famous 16th-century prophet and American 20th-century seer, Edgar Cayce. The Other Nostradamus earned the distinction of being History Channel’s highest rated show in 2006 and is still frequently in reruns. It was the first of a series of successful History Channel Nostradamus productions. In my opinion, that measured documentary presented the best example of sensational entertainment balanced with alternatives to doom backed up by facts and evidence. We can go a lot farther than The Other Nostradamus did, too.

Know this — all of you who are freaked out by these doom-laden docos. I will soldier on, respectfully pressing my counsel to production companies and TV execs and no doubt face editorial disappointment for your sake. I will go on helping them hear what you say you need, despite the final cuts mostly likely presenting the antithesis. I will celebrate my small victories for your sake when a byte or two of the real subject can be seen in the final cut of future documentaries.

There have been improvements. Despite the even more lurid and fantastically sensational elements of History Channel’s newest hit prophecy series, The Nostradamus Effect, the producers do let me say albeit too briefly what I really think about the Lost Book of Nostradamus and the overblown significance of 2012.

It must be remembered that our Liberal Arts often lead the way to change. Deep down, television artists, directors, writers, and even their producers are natural risk takers. Conservative and cautious habits cannot hold them down forever. The law of supply and demand must be followed. Even the corporate heads of the television industry when faced with the oncoming revolutionary times must adapt to what you demand on your TV, iPod, iPad and blackberry screen.

Write, tweet and text to them. They do read your tweets and emails and want your business. Give them the business about being one-sided negative concerning prophecy themes. Help me from the outside, give them your feedback while from inside, in the studios, I make your case to the producers. Let us help them supply what you respectfully demand.

John Hogue

(11 May 2010)

See the second most visited blog page in the world on the subject of Nostradamus’ Three Antichrists HERE.

See Predictions for 2010

New Radio and Blog Talk radio appearances:

The Kevin Smith Show

(25 January 2012 – 7-9 pm (Pacific Time)

Kevin asked me on to set things straight about the Mayan Calendar and Mayan prophecies which have been undergoing an extreme Hollywood makeover in the last several years. It’s time to drop the pink attire and the the toy Chiuaua  with the purse and see this era ending date of 21 December 2012 in its naked truth. Kevin will be broadcasting a free video of our show, live. On the time of the show on 24 January at 7 pm Pacific Time, go to Kevin Smith’s home page. Click on the “Free to Watch” link,  and you can watch our show free. (There will be no starlets or Chiuauas, just the naked truth about 2012 doomsday predictions.)

Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

(Monday, 23 January 2012, 11 pm to 2 am Pacific)

Join us for a three-hour marathon of prophecies for 2012 based on my e-book Predictions for 2012.

One Radio Network w/Patrick Timpone

(5 January 2012 – 10-11 am (Central Time)

We do our traditional “radical” New Year’s look at 2012 and the  future .

PAST TV AND RADIO SHOWS…..

New Radio and Blog Talk radio appearances:

The Jeff Rense Program

(Friday the 13th (January 2012), 8:30-10 pm Pacific)

It’s our New Years show with a new e-book out. See what we’ll be talking about for 90 minutes: Predictions for 2012.

TELEVISION

THE NEXT NOSTRADAMUS

HISTORY CHANNEL, Saturday 10 September 2011

(12 pm – 2 pm) Pacific Time

Futurologist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is profiled as this “next” Nostradamus using mathematics to predict the future, but he has quite large shoes to fill, those of the subjective prophet Nostradamus. De Mesquita can look into the future 18 months. Nostradamus peers thousands of years into the future. This though is perhaps the best documentary I’ve appeared on in the last several years..

Dreamland with Whitley Strieber

(Continuous free feed for a week begins Friday, 19 August 2011)

Whitley Strieber and I taped two shows last week assessing my January Predictions for 2011. Then we move forward with predictions for the second half of the year

We taped a second interview for Dreamland subscribers. We delve deep into the astrology aspects as they influence world politics and history for the coming six months. Then, there is an additional surprise segment on Comet Elenin and its potential ability to influence natural and political disasters on Earth this September and November.  This interview is for Dreamland subscribers only. But it is well worth subscribing for a month to listen to it for the low price of $3.95. Subscribe Here.

TELEVISION

NOSTRADAMUS DECODED

PLANET GREEN CHANNEL, Sunday 04 September 2011

(12 pm – 2 pm) Pacific Time

I appear extensively in this Discovery Channel rerun. It is one of the best documentaries of the last decade, though, as is Discovery Channel’s bias, they do tend to be one-sided skeptical in the second hour at times, getting away with saying things that I could have easily challenged, but was not given chance to challenge. One of these days, I hope to convince Discovery to give the sympathetic skeptics like myself the chance to retort sloppy and lazy skeptical inquiry.

TELEVISION

NOSTRADAMUS: 2012

History Channel, Saturday 27 February 2011

(3 pm and 5 pm)

This is a beautifully produced if somewhat content flawed two-hour study on the Mayan Calendar and how it relates, if at all, to the prophecies of Nostradamus and other prophetic traditions. Although they cut my skeptical take on the Lost Book of Nostradamus alluding to the Mayan Calendar purportedly ending in 2012, it is well worth watching for all the things they “did” allow me to say in the final cut, because they are far more immediate and significant to your near future.

New Radio and Blog Talk radio appearances:

COAST TO COAST AM with George Noory – Archived on 4 May

–Listen to archived show by clicking on this Coast to Coast link.

The Coast webmaster will refresh their homepage shortly, so if you don’t see me posted there, not to worry. I’m definitely on Wednesday night for two hours. THEME: Nostradamus’ Mabus, Third Antichrist prophecies and how they related to the death of Usama Bin Laden. See Mabus and also: Predictions for 2011.

The Knight Zone w/Colin Knight (8 pm Pacific-2/24/11)

Tons of things to talk about: Gaddafi, Libyan civil war, regional Arab revolutions, the oncoming Day of Rage demonstrations this Friday in Palestinian lands. There’s the weather, and food crop failures setting up the world for a food crisis. There’s the coming riot inside the US Capitol, what I call “Wattsington DC” and many more predictions Colin and I will share with you about this unique year of turmoil: Predictions for 2011.

DREAMLAND Two interviews on 2011 and prophecy w/Whitley Strieber

(Friday, 4 February 2011, Continuous free feed for the next seven days )

Whitley Strieber and I taped a show on 3 February that I think is one of the finest we’ve done. The subject was: Predictions for 2011.

This interview is available free for a week (up to 2/4-2/11) by going to this link: Dreamland.

We taped a second interview about prophetic divination and the mysteries of time and thought travel. It was a radical leap from my usual topics. This interview is for Dreamland subscribers only. But it is well worth subscribing for a month to listen to it for the low price of $3.95. Subscribe Here.

COAST TO COAST AM W/George Noory

(1/13/11–11 pm to 2 am Pacific)

The number 13 has always been my lucky number! Join us for a three hour interview were we will discuss in detail predictions for the coming year — a year that will define a decade. Read more about what we’ll discuss here: Predictions for 2011.

Jeremiah Greer Live

(02 January, 7-8 pm Pacific)

When Jeremiah and I get together we are most politically and spiritually incorrect. Prepare to enjoy a radical take on : Predictions for 2011.

The Jeff Rense Program

(29 December-8-10 pm Pacific)

It’s our new years show with a new e-book out. See what we’ll be talking about for two hours: Predictions for 2011.

One Radio Network w/Patrick Timpone

(31 December-9 am Central Time)

We do our traditional “radical” New Year’slook at religion and the future .

ALSO CHECK OUT CONTINUED FEEDS OF THESE SHOWS:

Dreamland w/Whitley Strieber

(25 December-continuous feed)

I will be on Whitely Strieber’s special Christmas program giving some early hints of what I’ll be forecasting for my new eBook Predictions for 2011. If you aren’t already on my free news bulletin list you can join here and be the first to know when the book will be posted at Hogueprophecy.com.

The Knight Zone

(19 November: 11-12 Midnight, Eastern Time)

We’ll be talking about the midterm elections and the next 2 years of congressional politics plus some early hints of what I’ll be forecasting for my new eBook Predictions for 2011. If you aren’t already on my free news bulletin list you can join here and be the first to know when the book will be posted at Hogueprophecy.com.

One Radio Network w/Patrick Timpone

(9/22/10: 9-11 am (Central “Texas Hill Country” Time)

I did a two hour interview with Patrick Timpone. I talked about a whole number of subjects not usually heard on these shows, including the coming mid-term election and political evolution for the next 1,000 years, as well as my spiritual background. Click here to hear the show Wednesday morning or download the feed in the coming weeks. See the Schedule.

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New Radio and Blog Talk radio appearances:

On the Razor’s Edge with William Henry

Starting on Bastille Day (14 July) in continuous feed is is my interview with William Henry on Whitley Strieber’s UnknownCountry.com’s special Revelations podcast. William and I discusses the unique and powerful astrological alignments that are appearing right now, and I explain how they relate to the upheavals that are taking place all over the world at the present time. Take one last look at what we know before we pass into the unknown. Also we discuss Nostradamus’ Bible of magical practices used to foretell the future.

The John Hogue Shaman Drums Podcast is Online

Go to this link to check it out: Shaman Drums.

Hogue on COAST TO COAST AM

Wednesday, 16 June 2010

(if you missed it, you can download the audio stream any time you like, click on: Coast to Coast AM).

George Noory and me spent three hours going over prophecies of astrologers, Nostradamus and myself in Predictions for 2010 in an attempt to anticipate a summer of upheaval, natural disasters leading to an autumn of economic crisis. I believe it will be one of the most important shows I’ve done for Coast to Coast since I first appeared with Art Bell in November 1994. We are going to have a preliminary taste this summer of the kind of cosmic forces that will define the coming decade of the 2010s. When faced with the coming Uranian storm of history, it would be good to share with you ways to cope, ways to turn it into a decade of transformation. I hope to do that on the show. Also, George and I talked about 2012 sharing my unique take on prophecy’s biggest fore-fad. We also looked at the significance of Ray Mabus, the new Obama Administration’s “Gulf Czar” summoned to clean up the mess down there. Is he Nostradamus’ third antichrist, code named “Mabus?”

Dreamland with Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber taped a powerful show on 28 May. It is now online for a month of free audio streaming starting since 17 June (see Dreamland). Whitley will “put hogue’s feet to the fire” on this show. We examine at the half way point what predictions for 2010 have come true and which have not. You can put my feet to the fire yourself by reading the eBook (see Predictions for 2010).

New Radio and Blog Talk radio appearances:

THE KEVIN SMITH SHOW

I’ll be doing a two hour show with Kevin Smith, Monday, 19 April, 7-9 pm pacific. Check out how you can listen to it HERE. The 19th will be the five-year anniversary of Cardinal Ratzinger becoming Pope Benedict XVI. Kevin and I will talk about the future of the Vatican and this pope. He is next to last in the prophecy of Irish medieval St. Malachy. After him comes the final pope before the apocalypse. Read more about it here: Last Pope. Our main topic will be the continued acceleration of climate and natural disasters (see Predictions for 2010) as well as separating the truth from hooplah about the Mayan prophecies for 2012. It should be a really great show and it will be heard across 143 countries around the world!

Catch tomorrow’s April Fool’s show on Patrick Timpone Show: on (ONE RADIO NETWORK) Patrick and I talked at length about Catholic prophecy, the origin of the organized Christian religion and its many conspiracies to change the message and turn Yeshua into a religous-politically expedient myth called “Jesus Christ.” If you missed the fireworks at this heretic roast, you can download a pod cast of the show from Patrick at any time. Read more about my take on Catholic prophecy and scandal, see Pope Benedict XVI.

TELEVISION

El Efecto Nostradamus

(A&E Ole Networks-History Channel)

Hola! Mexican and Latin American History Channel fans. Broadcast of new episode and reruns of this series in Spanish continues every week over the next several months. Check your times in your locales. I believe this weekend will show Episodio 11: “La Profecía Perdida de Fátima” across S. America and Mexico. I’m not in it but this is one of my favorite episodes in the series.

SCROLL DOWN FOR A SYNOPSIS IN SPANISH
(bajar el cursor para una sinopsis en español)

SINOPSIS — EL EFECTO NOSTRADAMUS en español

Episodio 01: “El Armagedón de Da Vinci” (24 de enero)
¿Fue Leonardo Da Vinci, uno de los grandes filósofos de la historia, artista y técnico, un profeta? Las claves ocultas en las pinturas del maestro sugieren que tenía visiones de los desastres ecológicos que asolan la Tierra

Episodio 02: .”¿El Tercer Anticristo?” (31 de enero)
El profeta más aclamado de la historia, Michel de Nostredame, vio la llegada de tres anticristos que se azotarían a la humanidad. Los dos primeros parecen haber sido de Napoleón y Hitler. Si es que existe, ¿Quién es el tercer Anticristo? (I aparecen en este.)

Episodio 03: “¡Extinción 2012!”
El Calendario Maya tiene una fecha de vencimiento: el 21 de diciembre de 2012. ¿Es cuando los Mayas creían que el mundo se enfrentaría a su catastrófico fin? ¿Es una simple coincidencia el que otras culturas también señalen esta fecha como el comienzo del fin? (I aparecen en este.)

Episodio 04: “Hijo de Nostradamus”
¿Era el hijo mayor de Nostradamus también un profeta? El “libro perdido” con inquietantes predicciones que alguna vez se creyó era la creación de Nostradamus, quizás es la obra de César Nostradamus. (I aparecen en este.)

Episodio 05: “El Juramento de Sangre de Hitler”
¿Fue Adolfo Hitler, el loco más famoso de la historia, también un profeta? ¿Qué papel juega su interés por lo sobrenatural en su intento de construir una raza aria? (I aparecen en este.)

Episodio 06: “El Código del Apocalipsis”
Sir Isaac Newton, uno de los mayores genios científicos de la historia, fue también un hombre obsesionado con los secretos de la alquimia y las profecías bíblicas. Fue él quien calculó el año 2060 como los últimos días de Tierra.

Episodio 07: “El Ejército de Satanás”
Después del nacimiento de Cristo, el Apóstol Juan recibió una visión de la guerra final de Satanás en contra de Dios. Lo que preocupa a muchos expertos hoy en día es que varios acontecimientos claves que preceden a esta guerra apocalíptica ya se han hecho realidad.

Episodio 08: “Los Secretos de El Séptimo Sello”
El Libro de las Revelaciones describe un final violento para la humanidad – un período de siete años de muerte y destrucción sin precedentes. ¿Cuándo podría ocurrir este Apocalipsis? ¿Y quiénes podrán sobrevivir a la ira de Dios?

Episodio 09: “Jeroglíficos del Juicio Final”
Una nueva mirada sobre el diseño de las Grandes Pirámides de Egipto, revela en la arquitectura impactantes profecías que auguran un final violento del mundo. ¿Creían los egipcios en que un cometa impactaría la Tierra en el 2012?

Episodio 10: “El Rapto y la Tribulación”
Muchos creyentes afirman que todos los eventos que anuncian el rapto y la tribulación ya han ocurrido. ¿Cómo es posible? ¿Podría esto significar que el rapto y la tribulación están casi sobre nosotros? Si es así, estamos ahora en el umbral de un Apocalipsis?

Episodio 11: “La Profecía Perdida de Fátima”
En 1917, tres niños pastores de un pequeño pueblo de Portugal informaron que habían sido visitados por la Virgen María. ¿Fue el mensaje divino que recibieron los jóvenes pastores una advertencia sobre una aniquilación nuclear?

Episodio 12: “Plan de Batalla Armagedón “
En 1947, unos pergaminos antiguos fueron descubiertos en las cuevas del desierto cerca del Mar Muerto. En uno de los textos, ahora llamado “Rollo de la Guerra”, se expone con un escalofriante detalle una futura guerra apocalíptica que pondrá fin al mundo.

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ARCHIVED RADIO/BLOG TALK RADIO SHOWS: ONLINE RIGHT NOW

Dreamland with Whitley Strieber

01/30/10–Month long feed starting 11 am -Pacific Standard Time

Theme: Predictions for 2010 and the coming decade

Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

Theme: Predictions for 2010

It happened on 01/27/10. ABC’s Nightline was in the studio with George listening in to our talk. There will be a special report in the coming weeks. Check Coast for an overview and download of the show if you missed it HERE.

RADIO/BLOG TALK RADIO APPEARANCES

(ll times are Pacific Standard):

Download the pod cast of my first predictions interview of the New Year here on the Patrick Timpone Show: on (ONE RADIO NETWORK)

12/22/09

The Knight Zone with Colin Knight: 7-8 pm

12/23/09

Night Fright, with Brent Holland: 7-8:30 pm

12/27/09

KAPS Paranormal Radio: 5-6 pm

12/28/09

The Buzz w/Spooky Scotty and Zita: 6:30-7:30 pm

12/30/09

The Rense Program w/Jeff Rense: 7-8 pm

On Whitley Strieber’s DREAMLAND (for Subscribers)

BEYOND 2012

For Whitley’s subscribers, Geoff Stray and Dreamland’s resident prophet John Hogue discuss the relationship between Nostradamus’ prophecies and 2012 predictions. Enjoy this rare discussion between two experts, and listen as they question each other, and in the process uncover some new ideas that neither of them have ever understood before!

Online (since 02 September 2009) Coast to Coast AM, with George Noory. I know, it is still way out there in the future but I want to give you all advanced warning because when George and me talk it is always an interesting show. I’ll be live online for three hours with George starting at 11 pm Pacific. Mark it in your cell phone, tweet it to you flock, bold face type the time and date on your facebook. We’ll be talking about the final months of 2009, which I expect will be the most dramatic of all.

I highly recommend you check out my 20 September interview with Shirley MacClaine at her web site HERE.

Online (since 25 July 2009)–Dreamland

John Hogue

(Updated 25 October 2009)

Dreamland w/Whitley Strieber

(25 December)

I will be on Whitely Strieber’s special Christmas program giving some early hints of what I’ll be forecasting for my new eBook Predictions for 2011. If you aren’t already on my free news bulletin list you can join here and be the first to know when the book will be posted at Hogueprophecy.com.