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Host:
Gary Mantz
Producer:
Suzanne Mitchell
Contact us with your
story ideas and guest suggestions
garymantz@rocketmail.com
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Gary Mantz
Gary Mantz was twelve years old when he surreptitiously read Flying
Saucers Serious Business by Frank Edwards in an art class where he
discovered he was a truly terrible artist. As it turns out, his art is painting
word pictures on The Gary Mantz Show Sundays 7-9pm on Alternative Talk 1150.
Subtitled Mastery and Mystery, Gary enjoys hosting a talk show where he engages
with knowledgeable people who are experts in their fields.
In his twenties, Gary took a radio workshop organized by a station in Orange
County, California, where he grew up. That experience led to his filling in for
the regular newscaster in August 1977. “I will always remember how strange I
felt when I had to report on the details of Elvis Presley’s sudden passing.”
Gary’s life was not destined to unfold in a straight line, however, and it was
twenty-five years later when he returned to radio as a mid-life career choice.
“In one sense, radio was my mid-life crisis.” He produced talk radio shows for
several different hosts and kept saying to himself, “I know I can do this, too.”
When he lived in Las Vegas for five years in the eighties, Gary was a frequent
caller to Art Bell’s local talk show when Bell was focused on politics and just
beginning to explore topics that would become the basis of Coast to Coast AM,
the first talk show dedicated to the paranormal. Gary’s imagination lit up with
talk of UFOs, Bigfoot, and ghosts. Today his home is filled with numerous books
from years of reading on these topics.
His not-so-straight line into talk radio brought him to the KKNW studio in March
2007 when he hosted his first show, the subject of which was negotiating and
conflict resolution. Gary’s passion for the mysterious simmered in the back of
his mind for many months until he decided to revamp his own show focusing on the
allied themes of life mastery and the mysterious.
Mastery and Mystery is a durable format, according to Gary, because people will
always be looking for ways to make their lives better and will always be
attracted to tales of the unexplained. “I want my last show to be the one where
ET and Bigfoot come in to the studio for an interview,” he jokes. “That’s the
one that will put me out of business!”
Suzanne Mitchell
Suzanne Mitchell grew up in Chicago and
graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English
Literature. She was encouraged to write from the moment she first learned to
spell words in grammar school and still maintains a file of her earliest stories
and poetry.
In her final year at Northwestern, she fulfilled a science requirement by taking
an astronomy course with renowned scientific consultant of Project Blue Book, J.
Allen Hynek, while simultaneously taking a literature class in science fiction.
“My head was in outer space that whole quarter between those two extraordinary
classes.”
Suzanne’s talent at organization led her naturally into office management
positions in her early career until at the right time and place she transitioned
into corporate communications, returning to her writing roots. In 2006, she
achieved recognition by winning two national awards for her work: the Clarion
Award for Internal Newsletter and the MarCom Creative Awards Gold winner for
Employee Publication.
Suzanne was drawn to metaphysical thinking after reading Napoleon Hill’s
classic, Think and Grow Rich, which began a lifelong interest in New Thought
books and religious teachings. She met Gary Mantz at church shortly after moving
to Seattle in 2001, and on their first date they discussed Astrology. She had no
idea that her casual interest in all things mysterious was about to take a
quantum leap.
As producer and co-host of The Gary Mantz Show, Suzanne uses her proficiency in
business matters to organize the elements of show production and sometimes jumps
into the on-air conversations. “I am amazed by the number of disciplines and
tools that people use to give themselves guidance and direction in living. There
are so many resources available that no one should ever feel that they are on
their own.”
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