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Welcome to Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening and good morning across all these many time zones.
From the Tahitian and Hawaiian Islands, where one can only imagine the setting, to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the setting is very similar in many ways.
And down to South America, north to the Pole.
This is coast to coast a good morning.
Good to be with you, everybody.
And I say good morning because that would include the majority of the listeners out there.
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Well, I don't know if that's true.
Probably have to do some calculations on that.
art bell
Anyway, last night I want to bring this up first.
Um, I mentioned that a lot of media did about a thing called the Good Times Virus.
Computer virus running around randomly, uh, allegedly on American line well.
Some people say it is a hoax.
A lot of people say it's a hoax.
Maybe it is a hoax.
And that would be good, if it is a hoax.
Nevertheless, uh, if I were to get, let me put it this way, if I were to get a message entitled Good Times, it would get deleted faster than the speed of light.
I sure wouldn't open it, so, um, but it may be, well, maybe an urban computer hoax.
Who knows?
Alright, well, I've got a lot of things to mention, but I've got one thing to mention first that's kind of a personal joy.
And I haven't been able to say anything about it until now, and uniquely now I can.
In my time zone, it remains a very interesting day for my business.
Today, November 2nd, marks the 75th anniversary of commercial broadcasting in the United States.
Station KDKA in Pittsburgh is credited with the first broadcast on 2 November 1920 with a broadcast of the Harding Cox election returns, asking the audience if they heard the newscast, then they should respond by writing to the station.
And that was sent to me by my board up, Rick Jacobs, down at KTUC in Tucson.
And I ached last night to be able to tell you what I'm now going to tell you.
Not that it will be meaningful to most of you, but it will give you some idea of how I feel about radio.
As many of you know, my wife is also an ex-broadcaster.
I say ex-only in the sense that she's not presently on.
We've toyed with her doing a show and so forth.
But on the 75th anniversary of commercial broadcasting, I went out, we went out, got some attorneys and broadcast engineers, very competent people.
And my little town of Prump, not technically a town, I guess we're sort of an area of assembly we have not incorporated as of yet, though there's a big fight going on about that.
We filed with the Federal Communications Commission, my wife filed in her name, for a radio station license to broadcast here in the little town of Peron.
And the filing date is now closed, and one has to keep one's mouth shut until the day it closes.
So I thought it was kind of unique that my wife filed her application on the 75th anniversary of the initiation of all commercial broadcasting in this country.
It won't be a big one.
6,000-watt FM radio station here.
And there's not a whole lot of FM here, to be honest with you.
In fact, there is really only one station licensed to the area that serves sort of this area and Las Vegas.
And there was a time when you could not walk into any establishment in this town, in this little town, without hearing that station playing in the background.
And they played Oldies But Goodies.
It is one of my favorite formats.
I love Oldies, Oldies rock and roll.
And at some point, you know, you've got to bear in mind, I'm in a very rural little farming community type area here in the high desert.
And that just went over very well.
They loved it.
And then the station, of course, inevitably a year or two ago, underwent changes and the dawn of Howard Stern.
Well, Howard Stern didn't go over real well here in Perump, Nevada, as you might imagine.
So Perump was left without a station.
So we have rough plans to do the following.
Now, it's a long process.
Everything with the government and the Federal Communications Commission goes very slowly.
But if granted the license, we'll go back to the oldies that Perrump loved.
And then perhaps at 11 o'clock at night through, say, 4 o'clock or 6 o'clock in the morning, we will naturally throw a switch and broadcast this program to the residents of Perump and they can listen to their hometown boy.
So there it is.
And if any of you have any comments on broadcasting in general, as you know, I'm a total radio freak.
I love radio of every kind, shortwave, medium wave, long wave.
I've been in radio since I was old enough to begin taking apart my mama's toaster.
And that's, you know, I kind of started building little things in cardboard boxes.
I started building electronics in cardboard boxes when I was very young.
So there you are.
And I think it was auspicious that this filing took place on this particular very historic date.
And Rick down at KTUC says, and it's too bad I was not able to get, but he actually has a recording of that scratchy first broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh.
Now, we can get it, but it'll be a couple days late.
Maybe we'll get it on for the 100th anniversary or something of radio broadcasting.
Anyway, that's something new going on in my life that I wasn't able to tell you about until now.
And it's very exciting for us.
unidentified
The End You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
Now, on to the news of the day.
In Miami, I'm sure you've heard another school bus problem.
Another school bus in the news.
A bus full of children with learning disabilities was hijacked early in the morning by some guy who said that he had tax problems with the IRS and a bomb strapped to his leg.
He apparently jumped on the bus at a railroad crossing.
Driver of the bus kept her head, had communication going with police held and mic open.
A negotiation ensued and failed.
A chase ensued that went on for about 15 miles at low speed.
Another low-speed chase.
It culminated with the crack of rifle shots, three of them, which entered the body of the hijacker, causing him to expire.
The hijacker was a 42-year-old man named Catalino Sang, and there was only, fortunately, one child injured, so it's a godsend.
The only question, well, there are a couple of questions I can think of to ask you about this.
One is, again, why are so many people wigging out, flipping out, kind of like somebody just throws a switch and boom, they go nuts.
Grab a gun, grab some kids, grab some hostages, more and more and more and more of that kind of thing going on, and more chases going on.
And NBC ran a pretty interesting piece from some fellow who said, what we really need, and he pointed to the OJ chase and all the other chases that have occurred, the low-speed and high-speed chases, that when carried live by, for example, any large market station, particularly in L.A., they have more chases than anybody else.
And it's a big ratings grabber, and so the television stations send up helicopters, and we all get to see the car chase.
A bird's eye view.
And it gets incredible ratings.
And so this guy was on NBC saying what we need is a car chase channel, a channel devoted to nothing else but car chases, taking feeds from all over the country, wherever the current chase might be going on, and then later at night, or in, you know, you've got to cover 24 hours.
I mean, a car chase channel has to be a 24-hour channel, so that in slack times they could replay great chases, or the greatest chases, or the earlier in the day chases, or whatever.
You know, it would be, I'll bet it would be an instant hit.
Many years ago, before the genesis of the idea appeared anywhere else, I suggested on the air in Las Vegas to the 13 western states that somebody could make a million dollars if only they would start something called the science fiction channel.
And I said, I just gave somebody a million-dollar idea.
It was about three years later, lo and behold, along comes the science fiction channel.
I'm still cringing about that one.
But, you know, you just spill your guts here on the air, so I thought it'd be a cool idea.
All the best science fiction.
Now we've got it.
So anyway, this one went national.
I didn't do it.
The Car Chase Channel.
What do you folks say?
Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Now, before you say thumbs down, what a terrible thing to have on television, answer truthfully.
Would you watch?
That's the only question that really counts.
Would you watch?
Because if you would watch, well, people would sponsor.
I wonder what kind of sponsors you'd use.
What would you get for a car chase channel?
Tire companies, maybe?
Armor-plated, bullet-resistant tires.
Bulletproof glass.
Oh, there, that's a good one.
Bulletproof glass for the rear window.
I don't know.
The car chase channel.
I suppose the makers of that, what do you call that thing put on the steering wheel so that you can't steal it, they'd probably sponsor it.
Car alarm systems?
They'd go for it.
Cars generally.
Involved in a chase.
Really want to get away?
You need some horsepower.
You know, that Kind of thing.
I don't know.
Anyway.
Very serious, quickening news.
The Philippines, here's one to scare you.
Typhoon Angela has had wind gusts to 230 miles per hour.
You see, in the Pacific, these storms have a lot more ocean to go across, and so they build bigger.
And it is looking as though the eye is going to pass right across the Philippines.
Early Thursday, Angela was centered about 270 miles east of Manila, moving west at 12 miles an hour.
And so I'm sure that it has already done it.
15,000 houses so far destroyed or damaged.
And about 135,000 people were evacuated.
So can you imagine wind gusts of 230 miles an hour, sustained winds at 180 miles an hour?
That's absolutely incredible.
Incredible.
Now, again, NBC following up with, this is turning into a big story.
The FBI wants a national system to allow police to listen to one out of every 100 phone lines in high crime areas.
Or they put it another way today, 1% of any big city phone systems, telephone calls at any given time.
I heard the President just a few moments ago on the news at the top of the hour talking something or another.
I can't recall what it was.
I wasn't listening that carefully, but something about American values as it relates to drugs or something or another, because we've got a story on that.
But how does this phone tap thing maybe you should have had a word or two to say about American values when it comes to that?
The FBI, the government, argues that digital communications, computers, and all that make it very much important they have this new authority to tap phones.
Congressional approval is going to be required, so there will be a fight.
The Fed say it is not a new invasion of privacy.
The phone company wants to meet with the FBI and will do so tomorrow to talk about exactly what it is they want to do.
Are you for it or again it?
Is it an American value or the perversion of an American value?
Is it going after the bad guys or is it a Fourth Amendment violation of the good guys?
Does the amount of crime justify doing what they want to do?
I don't know.
You tell me.
It is an important question.
Some will consider it a first step toward eventually big brotherism and listening to not only those who might be contemplating a criminal act, but those who might be contemplating a political act, if you follow me.
So it's kind of tough to keep control of this kind of thing once you get it going, and I'm very leery of it.
They probably do it anyway.
That's my feeling.
They probably do it anyway.
And so there you are.
As a matter of fact, there is a new report out on drugs, and we might talk a little bit about that this morning.
It says teenage drug use in America is not just skyrocketing, it is exploding.
We are losing the drug war.
Cocaine use is up.
This is really incredible.
This is teenagers now we're talking about.
And the sample study involved 200,000 teens.
Cocaine use is up 36% over the last two years.
Marijuana, check this out.
One-third now of all high school seniors say they have smoked pot in the last year.
There are more whites as a percentage than blacks using drugs.
Check that one out, folks.
Think about it.
More whites by percentage than blacks are using drugs.
And I'm sure from the black perspective, it's kind of nice for a change not to be at the head of some negative list.
And so there you are.
And you would have expected exactly the opposite because of, you know, all the talk about inner city blacks and crime and drugs and all the rest of it.
But the real truth is, by percentage per capita, more whites than blacks are using drugs.
Go figure.
But it's true.
What is sad are the number of arotines by percentage.
White teens, as a matter of fact, using drugs, cocaine, pot, all the rest of it.
CIA and FBI joining hands using satellite gear now to try and spot the drug shipments, drug lords, using computers to model their houses so they can raid them and arrest them, looking for coca fields with satellites, down many levels below the CIA building in Langley.
And so the CIA is turning its attention on the drug cartels.
Not a bad idea, I would say.
Some people say it is a bad idea that spies do not make good cops.
But we've got a lot of technology, and it's nice to be able to see that we're using some of it in what I consider to be a productive way.
The alternative, of course, is to simply give up and, as a lot of people want to do, legalize drugs, and then we'd have some kind of America, I'll tell you.
What a mess that would be.
No word today, further word on Boris Yeltsin, who is sickly.
Well, okay, I guess I better break here.
I don't have a lot of time.
I've got a lot more for you, and I'll just feed you a little more, and then we will open the lines.
A couple of really interesting things.
There was a Hubble shot today that was so good that, in my estimation, it paid for Hubble.
And I'll tell you about it in just a moment.
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I just can't hide it.
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it.
I'm so excited.
And I just can't hide it.
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You want you.
You want you.
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You are listening to Art Bell somewhere in Time, tonight featuring Coach to Coach A.M. from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
How are you doing, everybody?
I'm Art Bell.
There was earlier today the most incredible, absolutely incredible Hubble shot that paid for Hubble, as far as I'm concerned.
I've never seen anything like it, and I'm down on my hands and knees begging one of you who has a good quality photograph of this new Hubble shot to send it to me in GIF form on email it to me.
I really, really, really want a good quality copy of this photograph.
What am I talking about?
I bet a lot of you saw it.
It was on all of the networks.
But Hubble managed to get this amazing picture of something occurring 7,000 light years from here.
And we have always wondered how stars are formed.
How does a sun get to be a sun?
Where does it come from?
Where does the energy to create this incredible continuing reactive mass, where does it come from?
Well, they got a picture of it happening.
The picture shows, for those of you that have not been lucky enough to see it yet, these gigantic towers of gas and dust and debris and energy.
These incredible towers, 6 trillion miles long.
Now, the numbers begin to phase you a little bit.
6 trillion miles long.
And then out at the end or tips of these giant towers, you were actually able to see the birth of stars.
It looked like a tree trunk.
a gigantic tree trunk with things budding at the end of it.
And the things button...
The things budding at the edge of the branches are stars.
It is a photograph, in my opinion, of the process of creation.
And so if any of you have a good quality shot, if it's out on the internet or somewhere, grab it, please, and send it to me in GIF form.
We'll get it up on the bullet board as well.
It is just absolutely, it was awesome.
I wonder what the rest of you thought.
I just got this facts.
Dear Art, I know you've been watching CBS lately.
You know why I watch CBS?
Because of stupid baseball.
NBC was running baseball and preempting the news, and it was really ticking me off, so I had to watch CBS.
I've gone back to NBC as my prime source.
Anyway, Steve goes on.
This is a Steve.
You have to bear that in mind.
I was wondering if you saw the piece NBC did about the recent Hubble photos of what can best be described as a massive dust cloud.
The object over 7,000 light years away has a large abstract form.
From it, tiny droplets, roughly the same size as our solar system, would form and drift out into free space.
In so many words, scientists equate this to the hatching of stars.
The cloud itself was an amazing image.
I personally don't believe in God, but this entity had a certain God-like feel to it.
I personally don't believe in God.
unidentified
But this entity had a certain God-like feel to it.
art bell
I don't know what to say, Steve.
You're a Steve, too, and I have to agree with you.
It was just absolutely nothing short of awesome.
And I really, really, really want a copy of it.
So hopefully somebody will fire me one.
All right, let me open the phone lines and let us begin what we do here.
Two-way talk radio.
And unscreened, unpredictable, you guys can talk about anything you want.
I don't care.
It's up to you.
We can just have fun.
We can discuss the news.
We can discuss creation as viewed by Hubble.
We can discuss anything at all.
The night is yours.
First-time callers to the program from wherever you are.
It's a little easier to get through on this line at Area Code 702-727-1222.
702-727-1222.
The wildcard direct aisle lines at Area Code 7027271295.
702-727-1295.
West of the Rockies and toll-free It's 1-800-618-8255 That's 1-800-618-8255 East of the Great Mound, the Rockies, anywhere out east, toll-free, it's 1-800-825-5033.
1-800-825-5033.
Now, unfortunately, after ringing for a while, the phone company cuts you off and says, your pioneer did not answer, at which point I suggest you curse the phone company, all of their relatives, forever, and then pick up the phone and redial it.
And persistence will eventually pay off, and you will get through, as evidenced by this.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
This is George from Edwardsville, Illinois.
art bell
Hi, George.
unidentified
Yeah.
Hey, we just got the word out here on KRAM that you're no longer out here.
What's up?
art bell
It is true, and I'm going to blow a secret out here, all right?
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Let me, before I blow any secrets here, let me ask you what word you got and how you got it.
unidentified
Well, I'm at work this evening, and we turned in Roger Friedenberg at midnight and you at 1 o'clock.
Right.
It's our time.
And they just said that the request was made by your company that they no longer broadcast the programs.
art bell
That is correct.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
And there's more to it behind the scenes than that that I won't bother to go into.
unidentified
I figured as much.
art bell
But the answer is, watch for us in the next couple of weeks on the mighty KSD.
unidentified
KSD.
art bell
You got it.
unidentified
You're going back to them, huh?
You got it.
All right.
I tell you what, K-RAM's reception has been really poor lately.
art bell
Yes, I know.
unidentified
And so we're...
art bell
It was very troubled.
They were on the air and off the air and satellite troubles, and that's what I say.
There's no point in going into all the reasons for it.
But, yeah...
unidentified
By the way, we were awfully disappointed we didn't get your Halloween show.
art bell
Well, I'm sorry.
unidentified
But that's all right.
art bell
Anyway, as you well know, KSD has a gigantic signal, and this will open it up to...
all of St. Louis and well beyond by the way do you know if we're going to get the full three hours back of Roger Friedenberg or not yes you are oh we are great you are and you'll get my full show and so yeah it's because before in KSD they cut you off at I think 5 or 5 30 in the morning well not maybe I mean all stations eventually go to a morning show so but we're we're we're glad to hear that because we do miss you well I'm glad to be able to give you that news okay
not altogether I should I'm not altogether certain I should have but since you brought it up well you know since we didn't get you tonight we were kind of curious yeah well changes the world is full of changes right enjoy your show thank you my friend take care hopefully in the interim why there are so many stations out there that that are listenable in St. Louis that the world word will no doubt quickly get around that'll be about two weeks I'm going to guess Wildcard line you're
On the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Oh, hi.
What a surprise.
I got in so quick.
art bell
Yes, it can happen.
unidentified
How are you doing tonight?
art bell
Very well, thank you.
unidentified
You sound upbeat.
art bell
Well, sure.
unidentified
I love it when you're upbeat.
art bell
I love it, too.
unidentified
I wanted to comment on the bus, what happened with the children on the bus today.
Yes.
Do you know anything about why they did not, or could they not get the man out?
Did they actually have to shoot that man in front of those children that are already dealing with a disability?
art bell
Well, there were, I'm sure, a lot of factors that went into it.
One being that he claimed, or he said, that he had a bomb strapped to his leg.
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
I presume they had certainly no way of, you know, prior to examining him, knowing whether that was true or not.
unidentified
Yes.
Well, here on a report, I heard that he wanted to go to the restaurant where he had worked at, and I wondered if he went to that restaurant.
art bell
He did go to it.
unidentified
He did.
art bell
And that is where the shooting occurred.
First, he wanted to go to the IRS building.
And then, for some reason, after the chase, they ended up at this restaurant where he used to work.
Look, here's my view of things.
If you say you're going to blow up a school bus of disadvantaged children, you can pretty well expect, if they get a clear shot, you're dead meat.
Yes.
So, I can't say they did the wrong thing, and I won't.
unidentified
Well, yes, I agree with you there.
I was just wondering.
I had heard nothing about any real circumstances, and I just wondered if that might have been a little overreacting, or if they could have, what state of mind they had the man in when they actually shot him, since they were communicating.
art bell
Well, think for a second that you're on a SWAT team.
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
And some guys got a bomb strapped to his leg.
unidentified
Yes, I have a son-in-law and a SWAT team.
art bell
do you want to take the time to try and rush him giving him time to set it off or do you want to put a bullet through the part of his head that's going to put him down immediately well definitely you would want to put him down immediately but if that you're in the process of negotiation that's what i was concerned with if anyone knew what well one line used was negotiation failed so presumably uh he was not negotiating in good faith or any faith at all and was saying,
Either the following happens, I'm, you know, either my tax problems are straightened out, or I, you know, I don't know what was said.
unidentified
So, yes, okay, well, listen, I love your show.
I have a very short story if you'd like for me to give it for you that I tried calling you Halloween night.
It's a very interesting one.
art bell
Oh, of course.
It always is, yes.
Well, if you have a good Halloween story, save it for my next one.
unidentified
Oh, really?
art bell
Yeah, save it for my next one.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
I love them, as you know.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Where are you?
unidentified
I'm in San Antonio.
art bell
San Antonio, Texas?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
Well, it's a pleasure to have had you on the show.
unidentified
Well, thank you very much.
art bell
And you take care.
Yeah, I looked at that situation with the school bus, and they probably had no choice.
And as I say, if you do something like that, you pretty well expect to get shot.
You don't do that to children, disadvantaged, or any other children.
You hop on a school bus, threaten to blow it up, you're going to get shot.
And I would say deservedly so.
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The End You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
Coast to Coast AM On the first time caller line, you're on the air.
art bell
Hi.
Oh, I can barely hear you.
unidentified
Oh, my goodness.
I'll talk louder.
Can you hear me now?
art bell
A little bit.
Well, just get right into that phone and project like you're giving a speech.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Now, that's more like it.
Sure, that's better.
Where are you?
unidentified
I'm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Baton Rouge, all right.
I just discovered you a couple of nights ago, actually, and this is the most truly eclectic talk show that I've ever heard.
Thank you.
art bell
Eclectic, it is true.
That's what this is.
It's utterly different, and I never know where it's going to go, and that's all the fun of it.
unidentified
Oh, I know.
It's like sort of it's a conscious dream of consciousness, if I can coin a term.
But I, too, have a radio background, not on the air per se, but I've worked in radio in various capacities.
And I wanted to say that I was aware of this 75th anniversary thing.
And you obviously have such a great love of the media.
This is why you're so effective in it.
So you said it may not be consequential to many listeners, but I do share the joy that you and your wife have in starting that new venture at such a historic time.
And also, I'm Dr. Well, that's what it is.
art bell
It's an adventure.
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
You know, something I've never done, and I'm ready to sink my teeth into it.
It's going to be a lot of fun, and my wife is just overjoyed.
And to find out that we, you know, the closing filing date, you see, the way the commission works, you don't walk an application in until the very last minute.
It's a strategic kind of thing.
unidentified
Well, do you really believe that that's a coincidence?
I kind of, whether you call it synchronicity or what, I think probably that does have some significance beyond what any of us know.
art bell
To me, it does.
unidentified
Yeah.
Okay, then.
Well, I'm a fan, and keep up the good work.
I love your metaphysical stuff without it being real heavy.
It's just an adventure, an exploration, and I love it.
art bell
Thank you.
Take care.
It's when it's there.
And I say again, I would really love to get some reaction from some of you who saw these towers of whatever they were.
The dust, the energy, the particles, the magic, and the literal birth of a star.
To me, it looked like a sort of a giant tree with branches, and then at the end of them, these globules being thrown off that are stars.
The birth of stars.
Amazing stuff to be able to see in our lifetime.
Just amazing.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air, huh?
unidentified
Wow, hello there.
There is a God.
art bell
Of course there's a God.
unidentified
You had a couple of questions last night I found interesting.
I can't remember now when I was dialing, I remember, but it had to do with what we thought.
What was it that we thought about something?
art bell
I asked about 100 questions.
unidentified
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yeah, well, won't forget that.
art bell
I'm always asking you people what you think.
unidentified
I know.
It was a very interesting one.
Now, as far as the creation situation, you know, you've often asked that, and I think the fellow that answered that to take our free will of choice would be actually the only way that everyone could know that that was a supreme being.
And he said he'd never do that.
But my husband says there's only one new thing on this earth, and that's a baby, because it's a fresh from the fresh old.
art bell
Yeah, I know.
Well, I thought some evidence of creation might have been the birth of stars.
You're talking about babies.
The photograph yesterday, ma'am, was absolutely...
It's one of those ones that stops your cold.
unidentified
Yes, I know.
Now, one more quick thing, please.
Have you heard of a book by an officer X?
It's Cops Honest Look at Life on the Street.
No.
I think you really find him interesting as a guest, and the book is fascinating.
art bell
Well, I once had Agent X on the show.
All right, thank you very much.
Agent X. I remember him.
We had Agent X, who was an alleged, and I believe him to have been definitely the real McCoy, an ATF agent who debated on the air quite heatedly, I guess, with Linda Thompson.
Oh, that was a wild one.
That went on for, I'm trying to recall, two or three hours.
Do the wild thing.
It's 702-727-1295.
Okay, go right ahead.
First-time caller line, you're on the air, hi.
unidentified
Good evening, Art.
art bell
Good evening.
unidentified
Chris in Salt Lake City.
art bell
Hi, Chris.
unidentified
Two questions.
Well, actually, one question and a comment.
Okay.
Were you an on-air personality on K-Earth 101 or KRLA in Los Angeles?
No.
Okay.
art bell
Turn off your radio.
unidentified
Oh, I thought I did.
I'm sorry.
Oh, I hit the wrong switch.
And then my comment, last night my girlfriend and I were listening to your show, and she got really irate, you know, about President Clinton's wants to send out the troops to the Bosnia region.
And you were asking what would be his logic behind it.
art bell
In any area other than compassion, which is not justification for the taking of American life, I'm all for compassion, but I'm not going to throw a lot of people into a meat grinder because I'm sorry they're having a war.
So I was watching Talk Back Live on CNN yesterday, and they were trying to fetus his crap.
Compassion, my tail end.
The compassion we ought to be feeling is for our own people.
unidentified
Correct.
She made the comment of, why did he have to do this, especially at Christmas time?
Don't you know that they're tearing families apart?
And a little light bulb just lit up above my head, and it dawned on me that President Clinton, you know, I believe he is a communist, and they really, the communist manifesto doesn't really protect families.
They protect individuals.
So he wants to discuss.
art bell
He's not a communist.
unidentified
Well, then he wants to display the community.
art bell
Look, sir, even communists at least have convictions.
Don't laugh.
They have convictions.
This man, nearly as I can tell, is convictionless, believes in what will get him back into office.
So if he has conviction, it is in wanting to get re-elected.
unidentified
The trip back in time continues, with Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM.
More Somewhere in Time coming up.
Thank you.
Premier Networks presents Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
Good morning, everybody.
Great to be here.
It is a great morning, a clear night with about three quarters of a moon above us here in the high desert.
Stars are bright.
That Hubble picture.
Anybody out there with their hands on that Hubble picture, Ivan Vitz.
I really, really want that photograph.
I want a good, clear shot of the photograph that was shown on all the networks yesterday of the birth of stars.
Absolutely incredible.
Listen, some lady last hour described my program as eclectic.
And I'm very proud of that.
Thank you.
So, eclectic Lee, we will, in about an hour, call, well, I guess the Dr. Lee.
You remember Dr. Lee, don't you, from the O.J. Simpson trial.
This is the Dr. Lee of handwriting expertise in the world.
His name is R.E. Alton, and he is in Britain, probably London.
So I'm going to pick up the phone and do it again.
We'll do a short interview with Dr. Alton.
He is the chief forensic guy, handwriting forensic guy, who declared the note that Chris Ruddy talked about, who we interviewed on the program, the supposed alleged suicide note of Vince Foster to be an absolute out-and-out forgery.
And we're going to see if Chris Ruddy's claims about Mr. Alton are so, and I suspect they are.
So I'll pick up the phone call London next hour.
I think, eclectically.
All right, a few faxes have come in, dear art.
I am not devoutly religious, but I do feel sorry for Steve.
Actually, all Steve's.
For it must be a private hell just to be so profoundly unintelligent.
We did finally receive your book, both copies, yesterday.
So far it appears to be a very good read.
We're listening on Talk Radio 810KCMO.
The station's so big.
Its call letters are on cop cars all over town.
Thanks for a great show.
A Hound Dog and Nightshade.
Hound Dog and Nightshade.
And again on the Hubble picture, what really blew my mind, other than the beauty and awesomeness of the photograph, was the fact that we were privileged to see in our lifetime something that happened 7,000 years ago in real time.
It was magnificent.
I hope this is issued for purchase because they are truly worthy of framing as fine art.
Well, we shouldn't have to, you know, we paid for the Hubble.
Remember that?
We lowly little taxpayers, that was our money.
Put the Hubble up there.
We shouldn't have to pay.
On a much sadder note, see, we go from awe-inspiring to the very bottom.
On a much sadder note, did you hear the news about the young mother in, I believe, Michigan?
No, I haven't.
Who drowned her few weeks-old baby in a pond near her house, threw her baby in a pond to stop it from crying?
Where will this ever stop, Art?
Charlotte, listening to KEX.
Charlotte, I don't know.
It's not going to stop, Charlotte, until something changes, and that's what I view, that we're rushing toward is some great change.
And not to be outdone, Mark, the avowed atheist in Louisiana, who faxes but never calls, says the following, Art.
Regarding your opinion that through the ages, some religious stories may have been exaggerated.
You know that if you ask a number of people which fruit Adam, when tempted by Eve, ate, most would say an apple.
I would have said that.
Wrong oh.
Genesis only mentions that Adam ate from the fruit of a tree.
The whole apple part was added later by some nondescript person, probably a teacher.
The Bible would make a good movie on the science fiction channel.
Mark.
Oh, Mark.
Oh, Mark.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
Hi, Art Bill.
Yes, that is true.
unidentified
I can't believe I got through.
It's the first time I started calling, and I think you have a great show.
art bell
Thank you.
unidentified
I was wondering last night you were talking to Stan Dale.
Yes.
Okay, I live in Stockton, which is about 40 miles south of Sacramento.
I was wondering what would the implications be of what's going on over here?
art bell
In Sacramento?
unidentified
Well, I'm about 40 miles south there.
art bell
Are you familiar with the term gurgle?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
Well, it's not a term, I suppose.
It's just a word, isn't it?
Gurgle.
Gurgle, gurgle.
That would be a term.
But look, Nevada, depending on whose future maps you want to read, Nevada also is with the fishes.
So, you know, I mean, we've got to live this one day at a time, and where are you going to hide, right?
unidentified
That's true.
art bell
So, you know, I mean, take some swimming lessons.
What can I say?
unidentified
And also, I've been wondering about these Steve's.
What's the deal with these guys?
art bell
I've only listened to you recently.
Steve's are a secret society.
And, well, here's the way it began.
One night we were discussing a very serious topic, and that is that having lost the Soviet Union as an enemy, we are turning inward on ourselves, throwing babies into ponds, whatever the latest story is, that kind of thing, right?
So we need something, we need a focus of hate.
And so one night a guy named Gene, listening to KABC in Los Angeles, sent me a fax and said, look, we do need somebody to hate.
I suggest my neighbor Steve.
Steve is a worthless slob of a human being.
Steve is not worthy of even the term human.
He's that bad.
So he should be hated.
And then people started calling in and saying, it's true of all Steve's.
Steve's generally should be hated.
And I thought, why not?
Steve's probably are a bunch of no-goods.
So we've got a hate Steve movement going.
And Steves probably have a plot to try and take over the world.
And so we need to fight them.
On, you know, just about every place we turn.
Every time we get an opportunity, Steves need to be fought.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Eliminated.
Well, that might be a little strong.
Debilitated.
So I don't know.
We hate Steve's.
That's all.
unidentified
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
art bell
Remember.
unidentified
Thank you.
Okay, thanks.
Right.
art bell
Hate Steve's.
And if we get a good focus of hate going here, we'll move to Bob's.
If Steve's are insufficient, then it's going to be Bob's.
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Oh, hi.
art bell
Oh, hi.
unidentified
Jerry in L.A. Hello, Jerry.
You know, you were just talking about the original sin was taken from the people of good and evil.
If you read Ezekiel 31.
art bell
Adam was good, and no, no, no.
unidentified
It was from the people of good and evil.
art bell
Well, there were only two, supposedly, at the beginning, right?
There was Adam.
But there was Adam and there was Eve, wasn't there not?
If you read the Bible, the evil, sir, we all know, rises from the woman.
Here, eat this.
unidentified
No, and I would say that the UFO people are the people of the people with the knowledge of good and evil.
See, if you read Genesis carefully, you will notice that they talk about Ethiopia, Assyria, and some others, countries that were already around.
art bell
Did you happen to see the Hubble picture?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
Okay, well, that was kind of like watching Genesis, sir, in action.
That's the way I viewed it.
Kind of like watching Genesis in action.
God, it was incredible.
Absolutely a stopper.
And I called my wife in.
I said, you've got to see this.
Just awesome.
I've got to have that photograph.
I don't care what it takes.
I've got to have it.
Creation.
Actual, in-progress creation, albeit 7,000 years ago.
But creation.
It almost looked like, I would call it, I love naming things, the tree of life.
Didn't it look like a giant tree trunk with branches, and at the end of The branches, like a lit Christmas tree, the birth of stars.
Totally awesome.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
Hello?
unidentified
Hi.
art bell
Hi, turn your radio off and tell us where you are calling from.
unidentified
Rochester, New York.
art bell
Rochester.
All right.
The big wham.
unidentified
Yes.
Well, actually, HTK.
art bell
HTK?
unidentified
In 1280.
art bell
Actually.
unidentified
No, it's WHAM.
art bell
They're sister stations.
Okay.
unidentified
Well, say WHAM.
art bell
I beg your pardon?
unidentified
Say W-H-A-M.
art bell
Yeah, W-H-A-M.
Yeah.
Yes.
unidentified
And would just sort of like to talk about maybe AM radio.
art bell
Well, I'm all up for that.
unidentified
Okay.
Am I live right now?
art bell
You still have your radio on, don't you?
unidentified
I'm sitting down in the cellar way and trying to get away from it, but...
art bell
Well, it's confusing because there is a delay.
That's the first thing about AM radio you've got to know, talk shows.
We have a delay, seven seconds.
And if you sit there listening to your own voice, it's going to make you sound very confused.
unidentified
Well, generally speaking, I'm very confused.
I would like to congratulate your wife, first of all, for even filling out the forms for FCC.
art bell
No kidding.
unidentified
For trying to get a radio license.
art bell
No kidding.
You have no idea, or maybe you do what's involved.
unidentified
Well, I do.
I mean, I would love to own an AM radio station.
art bell
Well, it's FM that we're getting.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
Well, that's even.
Well, that's just as tricky.
art bell
Yes, it is.
unidentified
It is.
And WHAM, this is the first night that you've been on the air.
art bell
No, it's the first night.
You've heard us.
I took calls from Rochester for about an hour last night.
Nothing but.
unidentified
Okay, then that's the second night.
Yeah.
Okay.
Anyway, you do a great show.
art bell
Well, it's eclectic.
unidentified
Well, I got to ask you one quick question.
You mentioned Howard Sterns.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Who I can't really stand myself either.
What is your opinion of Don Imus?
art bell
Don Imus is also somewhat irreverent, not like Stern, and he's funny.
You know, he's funny.
Even Stern, frankly, is funny.
But Stern, I mean, you can imagine, I'm in a little farming town, all right?
unidentified
Well, I grew up in northern Vermont.
art bell
Okay, so there you are.
And we've got a radio station that is in between Las Vegas and Perrump, my little town.
And while Stern goes over, no doubt, very well in Las Vegas, which is very cosmopolitan, here in this little farming town, Stern goes over like a lead balloon.
unidentified
You're kidding.
art bell
Would I kid you?
unidentified
No, no, you wouldn't.
No, actually, you're one of the few talk show hosts that really comes out with the truth.
art bell
Well, I don't know.
I come out with opinions.
You know, if you agree with me, then you're probably sitting there saying, God, God's really telling the truth.
Otherwise, what a nerd.
unidentified
No, no.
I mean, do you know what gassos it takes to come out and say you're an atheist nowadays?
My goodness.
art bell
I'm not an atheist.
unidentified
Well, don't believe in God, but.
Yes, I do.
art bell
Sir, are you listening to my show?
You're listening to some other show.
Are you listening to Tom Lykas?
unidentified
No, I'm not.
No, no, look.
art bell
You are.
You're listening to Lykas, I can tell.
unidentified
No, I'm not.
art bell
I'm not an atheist.
unidentified
Well, I didn't say, well, you sound like Ethan Allen when you talk about God.
art bell
I see.
Well, no, there is.
Listen, I got to run, but there surely is a God.
A creator.
God has a name.
I believe there's a creator.
And I believe you can see his force at work in the photograph just taken by Hubble.
unidentified
Get this business.
I'm an atheist.
art bell
I read a facts from Mark the Atheist down in Louisiana.
I'm not an atheist.
I don't even really believe in atheists.
I mean, sometimes atheists just say that to get people's attention because I don't think inside they really believe it.
Maybe they do.
Maybe I'm not giving them proper credit.
I don't know.
I'm not an atheist.
The only person I know on the air who says he's an atheist is Tom Likas.
And we talked a little bit about that when we had a debate in Bakersfield.
We'll be right back.
unidentified
We'll be right back.
You're listening to Art Bell somewhere in time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
All right.
East of the Rockies, you're upon the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Good morning, Art.
art bell
Well, good morning.
Where are you?
unidentified
I'm in Indiana.
Indiana?
art bell
Out there, out there right in the middle, uh-huh.
unidentified
Yeah, and it's cold here.
art bell
Is it?
Winter has arrived?
unidentified
I think it's well on its way, sir.
art bell
You know, when I was doing the interview yesterday in Kansas City, everybody was saying, it's snowing, it's snowing.
And I was sitting here about 70 degrees.
unidentified
Well, you're one of the fortunate ones.
art bell
Well, you say that now, but then in mid-summer, I tell people, well, just hit 117 today, and they think harder about it.
unidentified
Right, right.
Hey, I was wondering if I could get political on you for just a second.
Sure.
Hey, I was wondering, well, I'm a recent college graduate, and when I was in school, I found it very difficult to find time to stay caught up on political issues.
Right.
But now that I've had some time out, I've been listening to late-night talk shows, reading editorials, things like this.
I found myself looking at a gentleman for the presidential campaign, Alan Keyes.
I was wondering if you've heard of him or – You did interview him?
Sure.
I must have missed that.
What's your feeling on?
Well, I tell you why I asked.
About a month ago, I was listening to your show, and a gentleman called in and said that he felt the greatest problem this nation faces is a moral dilemma.
art bell
Alan Keyes is a wonderful candidate, but he will not win.
Pat Buchanan is a wonderful candidate, but he will not win.
The race is going to be Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, and probably Colin Powell as an independent, or it's going to be Powell Clinton.
That's what's really going to happen.
So we can talk about these other candidates, but I'm very pragmatic, and I know there's a core of really strong, strong support for people like Buchanan and Keyes, but it's very small, sir.
So I'm sorry.
I believe that what I just said to you is accurate.
It's going to be Dole.
It's going to be obviously the President and maybe Colin Powell.
unidentified
Well, you're probably right.
And I know.
I just think that the issues that they talk about and that he's bringing forward are not overlookable if we're going to try and solve some of the problems.
art bell
What they're doing, sir, is not trivial.
Pat Buchanan, Alan Keyes, and others will push some issues into the campaign as it takes shape that need to be talked about.
And so that's, I guess, how I view their function.
And they will do it very admirably.
Great.
In other words, they will shape to some degree the debate and make the other candidates talk about things they otherwise wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole.
unidentified
Right.
Which needs to be done.
Yeah.
art bell
Yeah, exactly right.
unidentified
So it's good to support their campaign then.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Great.
Well, thank you, sir.
art bell
Appreciate your call.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air, top OD morning.
unidentified
Good morning.
art bell
Hi, where are you?
unidentified
I'm in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to WMC.
art bell
The mighty WMC, yes, sir.
unidentified
Yes.
You were talking with the guy about the FM station, the AM station, the paperwork being just about the same?
Not at all.
Not at all.
art bell
Well, now it depends on what you're filing.
If you're filing a very complicated filing where you're putting up a very directional AM signal, then yes, it does get far more complicated.
unidentified
Oh, your field strength readings and stuff.
art bell
But trust me, sir, the forms for AM or FM are basically the same.
Oh, they're very imposing.
unidentified
Yeah, I've seen several of them.
I've seen some walked through the system.
art bell
Well, I'm an engineer.
I had a first-class radio telephone license when I was 13, early on.
But I'm not dumb enough to have done this myself, so I went out and hired professionals, an engineering firm, and attorneys and all the rest of it.
God, it's a mess.
unidentified
How many watts did you say your FM was going to be?
art bell
6,000 big ones.
unidentified
6,000.
Are you going to use an SCA also?
art bell
I think so, yeah.
unidentified
Ah, do I put something special on there for special subscribers?
art bell
Well, it's a definite possibility.
Oh, yeah.
Look, we're going to do the whole thing.
I'm really looking forward to it.
I'm very excited about it.
And you've got to admit, it's a pretty cool day.
You know, the filing date closed, so I can talk about it now.
The filing date closure was November 2nd, the 75th anniversary of broadcasting.
Pretty neat, huh?
unidentified
Well, that'll work.
One other thing.
Your friend, Charles, your acquaintance, Charles?
art bell
Charles.
unidentified
You know, the liberal guy.
art bell
Oh, Charlie?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
What about him?
unidentified
I believe he's a sick man, and I would like to prescribe a single injection.
art bell
Let's hold it right there.
I can imagine the kind of injection you're talking about.
It's the type you receive while you're strapped down, I think.
Right?
We'll be right back.
unidentified
This is Premier Networks.
That was Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM on this, somewhere in time.
What were you doing to be lonely?
No one waited by your side.
You've been hurt out of what you want.
You know it's just your foolish fire.
The Appianicum.
Now we take you back to the past on Art Bell somewhere in time.
art bell
I'm getting all these faxes from people down in Los Angeles listening to KABC.
And inevitably, they're saying things like, you know, when you first came on the air, I didn't think I was going to like your program at all.
But I was wrong.
And that is because this program, kind of unlike others, is eclectic.
It is very different all the time.
And I wrote in my book, I did a big part in my book.
Here I go.
Tomorrow night I'm going to open the lines on the book.
Tomorrow night, I promised, and so I'm going to do it.
But I wrote a big section in the book about my philosophy of talk radio.
And I know that I'm right.
And I really don't mean to put anybody else down because I've really enjoyed Rush Limbaugh.
Matter of fact, Mike Murphy and I talked about this yesterday.
I did an interview on KCMO with Mike Murphy, or he did one with me, or interviewed me, I guess.
And my philosophy of talk radio is that it shouldn't be any single thing.
Now, this is no slam on Rush because he does what he does very well, but it's it wears.
And, you know, I do a five-hour talk show.
Now, some of you get three hours of it or whatever portion of it you get.
But I couldn't come in here this, you know, every morning and do the same thing.
It bored me to death.
And I think ultimately, listeners, too.
unidentified
So we do whatever we do.
art bell
Whatever it seems worthy of talking about or fun to be talking about or needful to be talking about.
But it's hardly ever the same.
That's how I can keep doing it.
Because I like it.
Actually.
Actually, I love it.
All right, a couple of facts.
Art, you're right, the president has I said, no, he's not.
They have convictions.
So this person's sending one saying, aren't you right?
President has no convictions.
We'll have to see if we can't give him and Hillary a few.
Followed by an all-expense-paid vacation in the Gray Bar Hotel.
unidentified
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
art bell
Pretty good.
And then somebody hears, Art, I sent you the Hubble photo via AOL.
Well, I hope it arrives in a GIF condition or a JPG condition because sometimes when people send me things, they come in hex code, and I don't know how to convert them.
It's a mess.
Anyway, it's signed Steve, and then it says, there's a little arrow pointing up at Steve.
It says, yes, we're taking over.
And then that followed by this.
Art, this is truly, truly blasphemous without question.
It says, Art, God has a name, and his name is Steve.
Steve.
Art, I think it's funny.
Read odd.
You and millions of others choose to repeat the same mistake Adam made in the Garden of Eden.
He could have eaten of the tree of eternal life in the garden, but he chose to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil instead.
You do the same thing.
Both trees are still here, but only a lightweight thinker would ignore immortality when the other choice of pursuit, he knows the results in death.
Ooh, GN, pretty rough up in Gig Harbor.
Well, the way I heard it, you know, Eve tempted him with the, I was going to say apple, the fruit, right?
And he gobbled it up, went for it like a guy in ancient times.
In modern times, he probably would have slit her throat, taken the fruit, eaten it, and then got off.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
Hello.
Goodbye.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
It's Ron in Memphis.
art bell
Hi, Ron.
unidentified
Missed you on WMNC.
art bell
WNMC, yeah, a lot of calls from Memphis all of a sudden.
unidentified
I'm surprised.
The first time I tried to call and got in there.
art bell
Well, that's why we have this first time caller line, so that people trying to get through can get through.
unidentified
Right on.
I just wanted to leave you a message that I also sent you the picture of the, I call it the pre-birth of the star, through ALL.
art bell
Now, will it come in some sort of hex form?
unidentified
Well, I downloaded it from NASA.
art bell
If you attach it to, I think, to email, then it comes as a GIF or can be sent as a GIF.
unidentified
It'll come to you as a gift file.
art bell
Oh, that's hex.
Oh, man.
That photograph, how did it affect you?
unidentified
It was actually kind of creepy, to tell you the truth.
This is the first time I've seen it.
I heard you talk about it on the air.
art bell
Yeah, I wouldn't have said creepy.
To me, it was spiritual.
A spiritual thing.
I mean, to watch creation, to watch a star being born.
unidentified
Now, did you actually see it turn to a star?
Did it go that far?
art bell
Well, the one they showed on the network, yes.
unidentified
Okay, well, the picture that NASA released is like these dark, almost like tree trunk fingers.
art bell
That's what I saw.
Tree trunks, yeah.
unidentified
Yeah, conglomerating together, but they don't fit into the actual.
art bell
Okay, the one on the network actually showed a star out on the end of one of the branches of the trunk.
It's the only way I can think to put it.
And several stars.
And it was just an amazing thing.
You thought creepy, huh?
unidentified
Well, that was my first reaction.
Kind of scary looking.
It was the first time I've ever seen anything quite like that.
Well, something to ponder.
art bell
There are those, I guess, who would watch the birth of a human being and think of it as creepy, or some guys will watch and faint.
But it's really quite a miracle.
Life is a miracle.
And the birth of a star is a miracle as well.
unidentified
Certainly is.
All right.
Well, thanks, Art.
art bell
All right.
Thank you very much for the call.
Memphis, Tennessee, the mighty WMC in Memphis.
Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hi.
What's the expiration date on all the chicken little theorists?
I mean, are we going to be doomed to listen to them forever, or are they going to finally admit in a couple hundred years, for instance, that they're all wet?
art bell
Well, they won't be here in a couple hundred years, right?
They'll be far gone.
What if I'm an immortal, though?
Well, are you?
unidentified
No.
art bell
Okay, so you'll never get to say na na na na na na.
unidentified
I will say na na na na na na on my natural deathbed.
He's being rammed by demonstrators of the point, sir.
art bell
And since man has been walking around on earth and able to talk, I'm sure there have been guys saying, repent now, the world's about to end.
unidentified
Yeah, remember the cartoons of those guys in the long white robes and the beards and the signs walking around?
art bell
The thing about it is, one day they'll be right.
Yeah, probably.
At least on a personal level.
unidentified
A couple billion years from now, the planet will probably go tits up on us, but that's all right.
art bell
You know, I'm sure the dinosaurs were saying that, walking around, crunching on the ground, eating leaves, saying, hey, isn't this cool?
Nothing can ever happen.
And then, look what happened.
unidentified
It's depressing, isn't it?
art bell
Well, not really, because if it hadn't, where would we get our oil?
unidentified
Oil didn't.
You know where the oil came from?
Look at a map of the oil deposits in the Middle East.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
And you'll see that all that stuff was deposited by an asteroid, a real high hydrocarbon asteroid grazing the Earth.
art bell
Oh, come on now.
unidentified
No, no, look.
Look in a national geographic Middle Eastern state.
art bell
Sir, your second story is in conflict with your first.
unidentified
Well, maybe the same asteroid that deposited all the oil killed the dinosaurs.
In the dinosaurs, however, the biomass in the living dinosaurs wouldn't fuel a Honda Civic for more than a year or two.
art bell
All right, thank you.
Well, I appreciate your theories, but I think it is generally accepted, is it not, that the dinosaurs contributed greatly to a substance we know as raw petroleum?
I think that is true.
At least that's what I always thought.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Now, at first he said there's nothing going to hit the Earth.
And then he said, well, the oil came from a grazing, he called it, of the Earth by an asteroid.
You can't have it both ways, or I guess maybe you can.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
art bell
Hi, where?
unidentified
From Southern Pines, North Carolina?
art bell
Southern Pines, North Carolina.
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Yes, I wanted to comment on the concealed weapon.
Heard on the news that there was a cop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that was off-duty and ended up in a shootout.
Apparently, he had an off-duty gun with him.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
He ended up in a shootout with a robber.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
And the robber shot at him, and the bullet crazed his pants leg.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
And the cop returned fire and basically took him out.
The guy died on his way to the hospital.
Well, then, bon voyange.
Very.
art bell
That's what I say, bon voyange.
And, you know, it's nice to hear about the cops living and the bad guys not, occasionally.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
One thing that is something you absolutely should not do, and that's shoot at a cop on or off duty.
Bad form.
unidentified
Well, a lot of times newspapers will have it like the chiefs are saying carrying a concealed weapon is a bad thing for an honoring citizen.
art bell
Oh, I see.
So you're trying.
Okay, I've got you, sir.
You're trying to make the point that carrying a concealed weapon will reduce crime.
And it's my view as well that a lot of people walking around with concealed weapons are going to make anybody committing a crime more nervous than they would be otherwise about doing so.
I mean, it just makes common sense.
In addition, we have now a concealed law passed here and about as well.
And it is sweeping across the country.
So as more and more people carry guns, legitimate, honest citizens, it is my view there will be less crime, not more.
And so far, stats seem to bear it out.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Well, hi, Art.
This is Jeff from Anchorage, Alaska.
art bell
Hi, Jeff.
unidentified
How you doing?
art bell
Very well.
unidentified
Yeah, listen, one of the things that was real interesting was that I happened to pick up your show just last Friday night, and it was unbelievable when I heard your conversation with Richard C. Hoagland, and then following through then on with last night's show with Stan Dale down in Australia.
art bell
Yes, last night's show with Stan Dale was awesome.
Anyway, go ahead, sir.
unidentified
Okay, well, first of all, I also heard through a friend of mine that you had at one time been up here on KENI Radio.
art bell
I did the morning show on KENI.
unidentified
Yeah, well, I was real surprised because, geez, how come he left, you know, after listening to your shows for the last couple of nights?
And a friend of mine told me he used to listen to you all the time.
I said, geez, I guess maybe you didn't like Alaska or something.
art bell
No, you're wrong.
I lived there three years and I loved it.
I absolutely loved it.
unidentified
Oh, it's a great place.
I'm somewhat transplanted from California, and I've been up here about 15 years now.
When Stan Dale said, one gal called from Anchorage last night and said, well, there was nothing there about Anchorage or Alaska in effect for the earthquakes, I said, geez, I crossed my fingers and said, that's great because we just had a big shaker here about two nights ago.
art bell
I know.
Actually, you've had quite a series of them, and you are part of the ring of fire, even though it's kind of icy.
unidentified
Yeah, no doubt.
Anyways, the one thing that I think probably was most intriguing and a question that was, I mean, first of all, I was just totally mesmerized with Richard C. Hoagland's account of the tetrahydro dehedral physics.
art bell
Tetrahedral.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Tetrahedral.
unidentified
There you go.
Following through with what was happening in Dayton, Ohio at Wright-Pat.
You know, and I kept kind of like thinking, well, you know, you're right.
Nobody has said anything on the news.
They're being real secretive about the gentleman and coming, as you had mentioned, that they might go down for that long elevator ride to see what is actually happening.
art bell
By the way, there was not one word of news on NBC anyway last night about the talks at Wright Pat.
The curtain of Silence and secrecy has now descended.
You know, we got to see them shaking hands grudgingly, and I think that's the last thing we're going to see.
unidentified
Well, you know, and I agree with you 100%.
And I guess I have to agree with you on a lot of things that you were discussing.
In particular, the veil of secrecy that our government is not informing us or that they don't want us to know what's going on.
And then in particular, with what Stan Dale had said regarding the, I may have gotten this just a little bit off, but he was talking about the anti-grav or it was the thing that technology was there.
art bell
Back in the 50s.
unidentified
Yes, yes.
Anyways, I just find it all just totally, totally 100% fascinating.
And I think that the argument is there for me to convince my wife that it's finally in time to get a computer so that we can get involved and get on the Internet and start.
art bell
Well, you're right about that.
I absolutely love it, sir.
Listen, I've got a scoot.
Thank you.
And so very quickly, I'll give you my email address.
I guess I ought to do that, huh?
It is Art Bell.
No spaces, just A-R-T, B-E-L-L, at A-O-L.com.
Very simple.
ArtBell at A-O-L.com.
If you want to get into our newsgroup, I can tell you how to do it on AOL.
You internet people will know how to do it with various other providers.
On AOL, you just go keyword newsgroups.
When you get in there, hit expert add, expert add, and put in ALT.fan dash, oops, let me begin again.
A-L-T.f-A-N dot A-R-T-in-the-Middle B-E-L-L.
Easy as that.
A LT.fan dot A R T dash in the middle B E L like the phone company.
Sorry to be associated with such a name.
cutting people off.
unidentified
Power!
Now, we take you back to the past on Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
art bell
And east of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Hello, Art Bell.
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, I'm calling from a little town in Northwest Connecticut.
And the first time I heard you was last April when I was in Maui, Hawaii.
art bell
All the way over in Maui?
unidentified
Yes, that's the first time I ever heard you.
art bell
That would have been GHVH.
And now you're in Northwest Connecticut?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
And listening on what?
unidentified
W-H-A-M-Rochester.
art bell
Rochester, blazing into Connecticut.
Absolutely excellent.
unidentified
But, of course, there is some fading, and it's discouraging.
art bell
Well, one way, I'll tell you what, you may remember from when you were on Kawhi, I advertised something called the Selected Tenna.
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
It will cut out 90% of the fading.
unidentified
And it's called Selected Tenna.
art bell
It's called Selected Tenna.
It's like $54 and something or another.
And I guarantee 90% of the fading will be gone.
It's amazing.
unidentified
Well, that's great.
I was going to ask you how I could encourage local stations or in the stations in the area to carry a program because we sure need a breath of fresh air.
art bell
Well, what town are you actually in?
unidentified
Colebrook.
It's a population of about 1,200.
art bell
1,200?
unidentified
But, of course, I'm not far from Hartford.
This is WTIC.
art bell
Oh, well, then I would say call up WTIC and say, hey, you guys, check this out.
It's a little bit different.
unidentified
Yeah, I sure will do that.
And I wondered if you ever heard any more.
By the way, when I was in Hawaii, I heard you talking about the fellow that I think his name was Marky Markle.
art bell
Oh, no, you're talking about, I got news for you, Madman Markham.
That's who you're talking about.
unidentified
Markham, right.
art bell
Markham, do you know who called me earlier today?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
Madman Markham.
unidentified
Wonderful.
What's he up to now?
art bell
More of the same.
Now, he didn't go into detail, and he was supposed to call me up at 9 o'clock tonight and didn't.
But Madman's telephone is disconnected because I warned him, I told him if he gave out his phone number on a national show like this, and people were calling him up from Hawaii in the middle of the night, and he wasn't getting any sleep, and he was turning into more of a madman.
And so he had to disconnect his phone.
But Madman will come back on and do an encore performance and tell us how his experiments have gone.
unidentified
Well, that should be interesting.
art bell
It'll be coming on one of these days.
unidentified
Maybe he's made himself disappear and come back by now.
art bell
Well, we'll have to find out.
But the fact of the matter is, Mad Man still walks the face of the earth, and I actually talked to him yesterday.
Well, anyway, try and get somebody in Hartford to pick us up.
unidentified
I sure will.
I find your show very interesting, and keep up the good work.
art bell
Well, it is different.
Thank you very much.
Take care.
Northwest Connecticut.
Smaller town than I'm in here.
unidentified
Wow.
art bell
All right.
We'll be back shortly.
unidentified
The trip back in time continues with Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM.
More Somewhere in Time coming up.
You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
Tonight, featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
Good morning, everybody.
Good to be here.
I'm Art Bell.
And as you may or may not recall, depending on how long you've been listening to the program, we did a very significant interview with Chris Ruddy, the Pittsburgh Tribune reporter who has doggedly been pursuing the Vince Foster case.
The lead forensic expert who examined the so-called suicide note or depression note, whatever you want to call it, of Vince Foster, which magically appeared, is Reginald E. Alton.
And Reginald E. Alton is the Dr. Lee of Handwriting.
He is a world-recognized expert on handwriting examination and manuscript authentication.
He has 30 years experience in the field of forensic document examination, has lectured during this period at Oxford University on handwriting and manuscripts, including the detection of forgery, underlying that forgery, and the identification of handwriting to doctoral and research students in the University of Oxford.
In recent years, he ruled on charges that some manuscripts of the late C.S. Lewis were a forgery.
He validated their authenticity.
He's ruled on numerous questioned documents and antique manuscripts, some of great monetary value, including such noteworthy historical figures as Don Shelley, Christina Rossetti, to modern-day authors like Oscar Wilde.
He's been consulted by civil bodies and by British police authorities, has testified as an expert witness in British courts on criminal matters relating to questioned documents, anonymous letters, and other forgeries.
Mr. Alton MCMA is an emeritus fellow of St. Edmund Hall University of Oxford, is currently Dean of Degrees at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford's oldest institution for undergraduates.
He was a fellow, tutor, and vice principal of St. Edmund Hall, has served as chairman of the English faculty as well as lecturer at Pembroke, ASUS, and Exeter Colleges in the University of Oxford.
So, in other words, a heavyweight.
And I don't know exactly where he is, but I know he's somewhere in jolly old England.
Mr. Alton, are you there?
unidentified
Yes, I'm here.
art bell
Well, first of all, welcome to the program.
unidentified
And hello to you, Mr. Bell.
art bell
Where are you, pray tell, in England?
unidentified
I'm sitting in the middle of Oxford.
art bell
Oxford at the moment, Al, okay.
I take it you examined carefully, and I don't know a lot about handwriting analysis, so I'm going to ask you to just give me a little basic education by asking you the following question.
unidentified
How exact a science is it one does a great deal of measuring, firstly.
Secondly, it's an exact enough science not to want to do it from photocopies.
In this case, the forgery seemed to me to be so clearly a forgery that it was possible to pronounce it so even from photocopies of this curious document and from photocopies of authentic documents written by poor Mr. Foster.
art bell
Here in America, we were treated to the spectacle of the O.J. Simpson trial, and they had DNA experts who gave us mind-boggling numbers.
Do you do that same sort of mathematical work when you try and determine whether something is a forgery?
unidentified
Some measurement, yes.
Some measurement.
I wouldn't say mind-boggling DNA statistics.
In this particular case, and in most cases, it's possible to see with the naked eye, let alone through magnifying apparatus, that the hand that produced the question document is not the hand that writes normally as paper, Mr. Foster.
The implications of...
talking about visual matters.
It's very difficult to do this with the voice.
art bell
Yes, well, of course, radio is the theater of the mind.
But if you can give it to us in layman's terms, what jumped out at you?
You said it was very obviously a forgery.
So something or some things obviously jumped out at you and said it's a forgery.
unidentified
The things that jumped out at me, the things that seemed to clinch the matter for me, were the fact that the forger had not understood the way Foster made the letters.
He was able somewhat laboriously to reproduce the shapes that Foster made on the paper, but not, for instance, the characteristic number of strokes or the characteristic movement of the hand.
Foster will use one stroke for minuscule B, lowercase B. The forger uses three, and you can see that even from the photocopy from where the letters are thickened on the page.
Again, Foster's characteristic movement of the hand, and if any of your listeners are awake enough to do it, is to make a counterclockwise movement so that when he writes IN, for instance, he writes a series of what are called swags, that is saucer-shaped marks.
He does it very elegantly, easy movement, rhythmic, really quite artistic to look at, aesthetic it is.
The forger's movement of the hand is quite contrary.
He makes N with an arch more often than Foster does.
And one has to count the number of letters and also makes copies of the documents and cuts them up into small pieces and puts them together so that you have you're not being taken in by meaning on the page.
Is that any help?
art bell
Well, that is help.
I also understand it was ripped, I guess, into 28 pieces.
unidentified
Oh, that's an immediate signal that one ought to look with some suspicion at it.
Any document which turns up unexpectedly, any manuscript, a literary manuscript, a valuable literary manuscript, anything which turns up unexpectedly and has been distressed, as the antique trade calls it, defaced, is immediately, should be immediately subject to suspicion.
art bell
Well, what added to that also was the fact that how do you rip something into 28 pieces without leaving fingerprints on just about every piece?
unidentified
Heaven knows.
I'm not a fingerprint expert, so I don't know.
I only deal with manuscripts.
I don't know how you do it without leaving fingerprints.
art bell
You wear gloves.
unidentified
I suppose you wear gloves.
Now, I would like to ask you this, which is an odd thing for Foster to do if he tore up this manuscript before it suddenly appeared a week late.
I believe a briefcase was searched after three days, which alone is a bit late to search something after a violent death, a suicide, an alleged suicide.
Then it was searched again about several days later.
Then these little bits were found.
art bell
Yeah, there you are.
Was it possible or is it possible for you as a handwriting expert to determine whether this was done slowly and deliberately or whether it was a rather fast attempt at a forgery?
Is it possible to determine?
unidentified
It was done slowly and deliberately.
In my opinion, it is just like somebody copying a picture.
The forger copies what he sees, he makes quite deliberate strokes, and then he deliberately adds little bits where he's not got it quite right first time.
It doesn't look written to me, which Foster's writing, which is open and easy and moves freely, does.
I don't think, by the way, that these differences are because the writer was under stress.
They're not.
I've seen many documents, many pieces of handwriting written under stress.
I've seen a lot of handwriting by undergraduates who are under stress of various kinds.
Work stress or emotional stress or sexual stress or something.
art bell
Or stress that you probably produce for them.
unidentified
No, no doubt.
No doubt.
No doubt.
I try not to, actually.
And I have a box of tissues there for in case they get under stress.
But it is not.
The differences are not the differences I have observed in documents done under stress.
art bell
All right.
Well, finally, I guess I would ask you this, or perhaps semi-finally.
You examined this document with two other handwriting experts, and it is my understanding they also came to the same conclusion you did.
Is that correct?
unidentified
They came to the same conclusion as I did.
I did not know either of them.
I had not met either of them before.
I had not met any of the people who asked me to look at the documents before I was met at the airport in Washington the day before the press conference.
art bell
Are you on the payroll of the American Republican Party?
unidentified
Certainly not.
I'm not on anybody's payroll.
Indeed, I didn't ask a fee for this, much to the anger of my wife.
art bell
Oh, I see.
unidentified
I don't normally ask a fee for this kind of work.
I never have.
art bell
So then you do conclude, to summarize here, that beyond any shadow of a scientific doubt, this was a forgery.
unidentified
I conclude beyond any shadow of doubt in my mind that this document is a deliberate and not very good forgery.
art bell
That is such a startling conclusion with such very important implications, Doctor, that I'm wondering, have you been contacted by any congressional or Senate staff or investigative committees in this country?
unidentified
Nope.
art bell
Do you consider that to be a little more than passing strange?
unidentified
Well, I do now.
I didn't know the background circumstances to this case when I agreed to look at a question document.
I've now heard a lot of the background circumstances, and it does look as though there are a lot of questions to be answered.
I believe the investigation is still going on.
art bell
Doctor, I want to thank you for joining us.
I know you've got a very busy schedule, and we will scoot off now, but you really, really have added a great deal to what we've been trying to learn.
Thank you.
unidentified
Thank you for ringing me.
I hope your people will forgive me for boring them with these details, which are not easy unless you've got the thing in front of you.
art bell
Not boring, Doctor.
Thank you.
Take care.
That's Dr. R.E. Alton from Oxford.
And if you did not buy a lot of what Chris Ruddy had to say, then perhaps you absorbed what Dr. Alton just said.
Now, Dr. Alton's job is not to deal with the implications of what the forgery means.
unidentified
That's our job.
art bell
Do you realize what it means?
Do you realize what it means?
It means there was, at the very least, obstruction of justice.
At worst case, a murder.
Now, for no investigative body, Congressional or Senate, to have contacted the world's leading expert in handwriting analysis is in itself a bit of a puzzle.
Now, why oh, why would not 60 Minutes, which went after Chris Ruddy, you'll recall, be interested in pursuing this?
Why didn't we see this story last Sunday?
Why isn't it going to be on next Sunday?
In other words, where is the media?
unidentified
The End You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
And again, I'm forced to wonder out loud, with the kind of evidence that you just heard, not from Chris Ruddy, but from the world's foremost handwriting expert at Oxford, declaring this so-called suicide note a forgery.
Where is the investigation going?
Why isn't it absolutely at, you know, what are gate-sized headlines?
We're either talking about obstruction of justice, should it lead to the White House in an impeachable offense, or, worst case, murder.
Certainly, a forged suicide note has got to lead one in one of those directions, not necessarily to the president.
I'm not saying that.
Does it touch the White House?
What do you think?
You tell me.
Does it deserve to be investigated?
What do you think?
You tell me.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Art.
Yes.
This is Mark.
This is one of the stranger logistical calls you'll get.
I'm from Little Rock, but I'm in South Louisiana.
Picking you up on a San Antonio station.
art bell
W-O-A-I?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Okay, you were talking earlier about this FBI tapping phones.
I didn't catch the whole deal.
You kind of faded out on that.
What was the deal on that now?
art bell
Okay, well, it's simple.
They are seeking permission congressionally to be able to tap in major cities across the nation about 1% of the phone lines, or about 1 in 100 phone conversations.
unidentified
Are you sure this isn't the KGB?
We're moving so close to such a socialist society, it's pathetic.
I'm sick to death of this.
art bell
Well, I have figured out a way to defeat it.
Even if they get it through, I know how to defeat it.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
All right.
Now, the way they do this is with new high-speed computers.
They don't actually have guys sitting there listening to conversations.
What they do is they use computers and they look for keywords.
The computer is searching for keywords in conversations, like kilo, or gun, or bomb, or explosion.
And so from now on, if they pass this, everybody in America, during any normal conversation, right in the middle somewhere, just say, kilo, kilo, kilo.
And they'll end up listening to so many conversations that they'll just give up on the whole plan.
unidentified
Oh, man.
I heard on San Antonio Station, too, this is changing the subject, but there was another girl.
She was 13.
She was convicted today of suffocating two babies that she was babysitting.
Oh, my God.
They're going to decide her fate tomorrow.
art bell
I have, you know, I'm shaking my head.
It's the only time I wish it was TV.
Thank you, my friend.
I've got to go.
Look, I don't know what to say about that kind of thing.
It's good we can watch stars be born because otherwise it seems sometimes like we're watching the death of the human race.
unidentified
You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
Coast to Coast AM from November
2nd, 1995.
Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
Premier Networks presents Art Bell somewhere in time tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
Live talk radio throughout the nighttime.
Because the radio station you're listening to right now cares enough about you to have live talk radio on.
So every now and then you might pick up the phone and call them up and say thank you.
unidentified
Because otherwise, who knows what you might be getting?
art bell
Some regurgitated, recycled, relentless repeat.
I don't know how anybody can do it.
Yet another fact from Anne in Gig Harbor, Michigan.
Oh, no, Gig Harbor.
I'm sorry, Gig Harbor, Washington, Como Country, KVI.
KVI, Como.
Duopolis.
Art, quit picking on women.
She spells it W-I-M-M-I-N.
Quit picking on women.
God said it was Adam's fault, not Eve's.
He said, quote, she was deceived, but Adam was not, end quote, meaning she picked what she was tricked into thinking was good, but it was Adam who chose what he knew was evil.
And then this is a pretty good follow-up.
unidentified
Dear Art, you don't understand women?
art bell
Art, I'm a woman, and I don't understand women.
And she adds, also, if I get some laprina and I spray it on my rear, will my boss disappear?
Tracy, no, Tracy.
But it will be a good symbolic thing for you to do, and it will be cathartic for you, so spray away.
And then one other item, Art, do not open that GIF file you'll be receiving from Steve.
A source of mine in government intelligence, I can't say which government, has warned me that the Steve Consortium has developed a computer virus which they are spreading throughout the world via the net.
According to this source, if you view the GIF file on your computer, your hard drive will be permanently infected with the virus stupid, which stands for Steve's to undermine people internet daily.
This virus is even worse than the Good Times virus, because instead of destroying your system, it actually causes your system sound card to just repeat phrases like, Steve's will soon control the world, followed by that disgusting laugh that all Steve's seem to have.
Another side effect of the stupid virus is that instead of seeing the GIF image you were expecting to get, your system will instead put your monitor into a continual loop of screensavers made up of mugshots of all Steves.
As I have said, this artist will not destroy your system.
But after looking at all those Steve's, you might want to destroy it yourself.
Tim listening to KSFO and Foster City.
Also, somehow somebody managed to fax me a very legible, albeit low-definition, picture of these gaseous pillars, M16.
My God.
And that's the right word, God.
How anybody could look at this and not detect the presence of a creator of creation and progress?
This is the most amazing photograph I have ever seen.
The single most amazing photograph I've ever seen.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
This is not Arpell.
What have you done with him?
art bell
I've killed him and replaced him, and I'm now taking his place permanently.
unidentified
Hey, that Linda Howe Bigfoot sound?
Yes.
My wife made that sound four days out of the month every month.
I don't think that's Bigfoot.
art bell
Sir, could we please have your phone number and address?
There's a whole group of gals who'd like to come and see you immediately.
unidentified
I'm sure that was just a joke.
Yeah?
art bell
You know, it's jokes like that that end up these days getting guys strung up.
Sometimes not by their necks.
unidentified
I guess I should be more careful.
art bell
You should.
unidentified
Hey, I was just wondering if you wanted to hear a good ghost story.
art bell
No, that's for a Halloween.
Well, if you really, really have a good ghost story, save it for a Halloween.
Or maybe I'll be forced to do a semi-annual ghost show.
unidentified
Well, maybe I'll save it until next year.
Would you?
Yeah, it could wait.
art bell
All right, thank you.
I appreciate it.
I mean, you know, it's kind of open to everything, but if I get going with ghost stories, I won't be able to stop it.
You know what I mean?
unidentified
I know.
Hey, you have a Kenwood 830?
art bell
I do.
unidentified
I had a Kenwood TS930.
art bell
And it's still got tubes in it, glow-in-the-dark tubes, and I'm not giving it up.
unidentified
You know what?
I wouldn't blame you, because I had a TS930 with automatic antenna tuner in the whole nine yards.
Yeah.
And I couldn't keep it running.
And a buddy of mine had an old Yesu 101.
art bell
Yep.
unidentified
And the receive used to make mine look deaf.
And I think that my next radio is going to glow in the dark.
art bell
Yeah, well, good for you.
And you know what else it'll do?
unidentified
What?
art bell
It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
All right, listen, I got to go.
That's ham radio talk.
Old radios versus newer technology.
People laugh at me for my radio.
But I'll tell you something, the old Kenwood 830, that's a DXer's radio.
That's Ham Talk too.
Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
Yes.
My gosh, I can't believe I got through.
art bell
It would seem you have.
unidentified
I've been listening to you for a few years, and I just want to let you know that I really appreciate your show.
Thank you.
art bell
Where are you?
unidentified
I'm in Las Vegas.
Fabulous Las Vegas.
art bell
KVEG840.
unidentified
Affirmative.
Anyway, the reason I called was that I've got a little audio tape that I'd like to send you, and I don't know where to send it.
art bell
And so you wish my address?
unidentified
Yes, if you can.
art bell
Do you have pencil and paper?
unidentified
I sure do.
art bell
Are you prepared?
unidentified
Yep.
art bell
Art Bell, of course.
unidentified
Yep.
art bell
Post Office Box 4755 Prump.
P-A-H-P-A-H-R-U-M-P.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Nevada.
Zip code 89041-4755.
unidentified
4755.
Okay.
Also, I have to give a little plug here for absolutely fresh flowers because I've ordered those several times for people, and they have been impressed every time.
art bell
Oh, yes.
unidentified
Even the ones that got them twice.
art bell
Oh, yes, sir.
You're absolutely correct.
They are very impressive indeed, aren't they?
unidentified
Yes, they are.
Anyway, Art, I love Dreamland, and I try to tune you in every time I can get you.
I just wish that KVEG here would air it live?
Yeah.
art bell
Well, the thing is, at least they're airing it, sir, and 10 o'clock is not a bad hour to start Dreamland.
unidentified
That's true.
art bell
I'm very glad, and I'm very grateful to KVEG, not only for that, but for getting our entire program on, you know?
unidentified
Me too, and I'll be sure to let them know.
About Hubble, you know, if they can pick up things from 7,000 light years away, I wonder what they can pick up in our solar system that they're not telling us about.
art bell
Well, those are the pictures they don't release.
I mean, you would think, I mean, you're really right about that.
They might pick up little guys walking around on the surface of Mars, you know, popping out of the red stuff every now and then, calling around for a while, diving back in.
I got to run.
Thanks for the take care.
K-V-E-G.
Las Vegas.
unidentified
Las Vegas.
You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Morning, Eric.
art bell
Good morning.
unidentified
I was calling from Fort Myers, Florida.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
To let you know that I was able to pick up the radio station from, where was it, 1180?
art bell
Oh, you're kidding.
You can hear Rochester, New York down in Fort Myers?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
Holy moly.
unidentified
We used to have a station at 1,200.
It's off the air now.
art bell
Well, that's, of course, San Antonio.
unidentified
Yes.
And I was able to pick it up last night and tonight.
It fades in and out, but when it comes in, it booms.
art bell
Well, let's see.
That'll be about, what, about 1,300, 1,400 miles?
unidentified
At least.
Holy smokes.
art bell
That's a big station.
unidentified
Yes.
I normally listen to you on 1240 down here, wink a.m.
art bell
Right.
unidentified
But you went off at 5 o'clock down here.
art bell
Oh, that's right.
unidentified
And it's great hearing you.
art bell
Well, it's great being there.
unidentified
I figured I'd give you a radio check, long distance DX talk.
art bell
That really is long distance.
That's so totally cool.
1180.
Well, that's a clear channel frequency.
Truly clear.
And they radiate equally in all directions.
unidentified
Wow.
art bell
Imagine that.
unidentified
They can probably hear you in Newfoundland, then.
art bell
Yeah.
That'd be my guess.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
And then we've got stations up in Alaska, for example, KFAR and Fairbanks.
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
It radiates equally going up toward the North Pole, so bigger.
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
Thanks for the call.
unidentified
Thank you.
art bell
Take care.
Fort Myers, Florida.
unidentified
Wow.
art bell
That's some DXing.
Someday we'll see how far we really get.
What I really wish I had is an international line.
That'd be fun, huh?
We're also on satellite, by the way, for those of you that are not aware.
If you've got a home dish system, we are on F1, transponder number five, 6.8 wideband audio.
And they carry the entire program.
And Dreamland, and a lot of other network products.
So there you are.
That's where we're located.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Good morning, Art.
art bell
Ooh, you have hum on your line.
unidentified
Hello?
art bell
Yes, hi.
You have hum on your line.
unidentified
I can't understand you, Art.
art bell
Well, that's cool, because I can't understand you either.
Well, I can, I mean, but you have hum on your line.
unidentified
I'm calling from Accessor Springs, Missouri.
I'm listening to 810.
art bell
KCMO.
unidentified
Yes.
Uh-huh.
I heard you were on today?
art bell
I was on with Mike Murphy, yes.
unidentified
Well, I'm sorry, I missed it.
I stayed up late last night listening to your show.
art bell
And fell asleep.
Yeah, I know.
That happens.
unidentified
Yeah, so I missed an interview with Mike Murphy.
art bell
He's a great guy.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
art bell
And we have a lot in common, and so we get along very well, and we just have a lot of fun.
unidentified
Well, I'm a night al, so I really enjoy your show.
This is the first time I called.
art bell
Well, I'm glad you made it through, sort of.
Are you on a portable phone?
unidentified
No, I'm not.
art bell
Well, in that case, you need to call the phone company and tell them you have Hum.
unidentified
Hum.
Okay.
art bell
Okay?
unidentified
Yeah, okay.
art bell
All right, my friend, thank you.
Yeah, I was on with Mike Murphy yesterday.
Occasionally, I do those.
It's getting to be a problem, though, because now with 230 affiliates online, there are a lot of requested interviews, and it's getting harder.
You know, it really is.
I mean, we do five hours here all night long, five hours.
And then when you add a sixth or a seventh hour, it does begin to get a little long.
But still, I try when I can to do these because it's kind of fun to go to the individual markets, you know, and talk to the people that otherwise don't get an opportunity to get through.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
This is Jeremiah from Evans.
art bell
Gee, talk about a blast out of the past.
Jeremiah, I haven't heard your voice in, I don't know how long.
unidentified
Yeah.
Well, I've got a couple things to talk about tonight.
art bell
I mean, you could have died.
unidentified
That's true.
That's true.
Well, as I said, you know, now I'm over my drug stuff, and I'm doing much better now.
art bell
That's good.
unidentified
Yeah.
But the first thing is Linda Howe, and she had a thing on PBS.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
For like, I think it was a three-hour special called Strange Harvest.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
On cattle mutilations.
It was pretty cool.
art bell
Oh, yes.
It was very well done.
Linda Howe began all this not looking for crop circles or animal mutilations or anything else.
She approached this.
She did documentaries and investigative reporting.
And so she just fell into it.
unidentified
I didn't know that, but I thought it was really well done, really well done.
art bell
Well, it is important to note.
In other words, she did not start out looking into this field.
She simply made her way to it and then became fascinated, and away she went.
unidentified
The other thing is the internet.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Mainly BBSs.
art bell
Yes, yes, yes.
unidentified
And from all the people I've talked to on computers, they're really stuck-up people, and they're very gullible.
art bell
Oh, why do you say that?
unidentified
Well, I've posted a couple of things on one friend here from Denver.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
And people take everything you say very seriously.
Very seriously.
art bell
Well, look, I would take the Internet about as seriously as my show.
In other words, Jeremiah the Bullfrog or anybody else who comes on here and says something on the radio, you're just saying something on the radio, right?
And it's the same deal on the Internet.
If you write a message in a newsgroup or something or whatever, wherever on the Internet, it's just somebody saying something.
And you can't attach any more value to it than you would a phone call you hear on my show here.
unidentified
Well, my favorite flame on me was Forest Gump on Acid.
art bell
Forrest Gump on Acid.
They called you Forrest Gump on Acid?
Not bad, actually.
unidentified
Thoughts are things and things have wings.
art bell
Later.
Okay, later.
I've been flamed.
Flaming means when you go after somebody.
It's the Internet expression for going after somebody.
Lots of people go after me.
I learned long ago not to let it bother me, and it actually moved from that to it invigorates me.
I actually enjoy it.
I suppose I ought not tell those who do it that I do, but I do really enjoy it.
It's kind of like getting faxes from people who go after me.
I like reading them.
It's funny.
I learned not to be offended long ago, and actually, any talk show host who does not monitor their mail and their email, if they have it, and everything else, for a certain amount of hate, if you're not getting that, you better be worried because it probably means you're not doing very much of anything at all.
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Good morning, Mr. Bell.
Hello.
This is Leonard from Mitchell.
art bell
How about that?
What do you think of the birth of stars, Leonard?
Did you see those photos?
unidentified
No, I don't have a TV and I don't have a computer.
Did you ever see the picture of the birth of a star in which two stars collide and as they separate they leave a third star between them?
art bell
No.
unidentified
I don't know whether that was an imaginary picture or whether it was an actual photograph that looked like a photograph.
I've never forgotten that.
I was thinking about Ixiwaddle and Pocacottapedal.
Those are real tongue twisters.
art bell
Yeah, and I refuse to do it.
To me, it's Mount Poco.
unidentified
I'll tell you how to learn them, though.
If you'll get on an airplane and fly from Mexico City to Guatemala City, they'll go right by those two granddaddy volcanic peaks, and they're really worth looking at.
art bell
Well, that, all right.
Thanks, Leonard.
That would be worth looking at.
I'm glad to.
And I'd look down.
I'd say, wow, look at that.
Mount Poco.
First time caller align, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Yes, good morning, Mr. Bell.
Hello there.
art bell
Where are you?
unidentified
I am in Twin Falls, Idaho.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
WKIX.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
And I was listening.
Just last couple months, I'm a wild mushroom picker, harvester.
art bell
You know, that's a very dangerous profession up in Oregon.
unidentified
That's exactly where I've been doing this, my wife and I, for the last six years since 89.
However, Is it dangerous there?
We have finally gotten out of it as of this fall because we were chased by certain ethnic people that are trying to take over that particular business, and they tried to shoot us.
art bell
Uh-huh.
A couple of questions.
First of all, let's say those people weren't shooting at you and you had stayed in business.
How lucrative a business is wild mushroom harvesting?
In other words, how much money can you make?
unidentified
Quite frankly and quite honestly, in the six years we were involved, we had days where both of us brought, sold our mushrooms for over $1,700.
art bell
A day?
unidentified
In one day.
It's a rarity.
art bell
Geez, I'd almost be willing to put on a bulletproof vest and arm myself and go out there and pick anyway.
unidentified
Well, now that's for a particular variety of wild mushroom that right at this moment they are harvesting right now in the Cascade.
That being the Matsutake mushroom.
art bell
The Matsutaki, excuse me?
unidentified
Matsutake.
It is mainly consumed by the Japanese.
And I'm just so glad I got a hold of you to put this forum out there because a lot of people don't understand this.
It's a multi-million dollar business and it's all virtually underground.
All the people that are involved in buying it, they don't pay taxes.
This stuff gets shipped from where it's picked in the field, fresh.
It goes overnight by refrigerator truck to Portland, Seattle, et cetera, et cetera.
And it is directly shipped to Japan.
I don't know how they get away with it.
It just blows my mind.
art bell
Well, you know what money does, and you know what the other stuff does.
So money moves mountains and mushrooms.
unidentified
But the whole idea is to push the white man out.
And I'm certainly not a prejudiced person.
But when my livelihood, when I have to go out and get shot at, my wife and I pretty much decided that any amount of money at that point.
art bell
It's very discouraging, yes.
unidentified
It's discouraging.
And it's just, it doesn't need to be, but the federal government, the United States Forest Service, protects these minorities that are taking over this business or actually have taken over it.
art bell
Well, that might be a little unfair.
I doubt that they would condone the shooting of anybody.
unidentified
I absolutely do not condone any violence.
art bell
Right.
I'm going to have to run.
But the man is right.
The mushroom business is big business and lately a very dangerous business indeed.
Well, look, if you leave us at this hour, bon voyage.
For the rest of you, we'll be right back.
unidentified
This is Premier Networks.
That was Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM on this Somewhere in Time.
Thank you.
Somewhere in talk, with our belt, continued.
Focusing a premier network.
art bell
My favorite topic.
Which America do you think we are, folks?
Are we the America of our founding fathers?
unidentified
The one that would pursue the truth?
art bell
For the sake of truth?
Not for the sake of an agenda.
But for the sake of truth.
Are we an America that will ignore the world's foremost handwriting expert declaring a suicide note by the president, a chief counsel?
A forgery?
Are we really that America?
I wonder.
I'm just a talk show host, you know, and I throw this stuff out.
I thought it was important to get that on, and so now I guess I just ponder what will occur as a result of that.
Which America are we?
Are we really now an America where those with power, those with influence, can...
Maybe we are now that America.
See, I can't believe that.
I would be too sad.
unidentified
Why aren't you...
art bell
You certainly are a...
I've got a bridge for you.
Of course we're that kind of America.
I don't think so.
But there are just fighting signs.
unidentified
The End Somewhere in Time with Art Bell continues, courtesy of Premier Networks.
Music East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
This is Don from Port Dodge going.
art bell
From where?
unidentified
Port Dodge, Iowa.
art bell
Excellent.
Glad to have you.
unidentified
Well, thanks.
See, I think I don't think everything is over with just because all the powers that be are ignoring Art Bell.
art bell
Well, it's not Art Bell.
It's Chris Ruddy.
It's Dr. Alton and two other handwriting experts.
It's either a pursuit of the truth or not.
Art Bell doesn't have anything to do with it.
unidentified
Didn't you have a man on the air a few months back after the Oklahoma City bombing who uh was just so asserted and had all the overwhelming evidence that uh the number two man for the bombing was there in uh Oklahoma City.
art bell
They said they were pursuing somebody they considered to be a suspect.
That's what he said.
unidentified
I see.
art bell
Your memory is selective, sir.
unidentified
Well, it's it's selective.
It's it's downright poor sometimes.
art bell
Well, I mean, look, you heard the handwriting expert.
I presume you did, didn't you?
unidentified
Yes, I did.
art bell
All right.
If you were a special investigator or special counsel or somebody who would decide based on evidence placed in front of you whether to investigate something or not, and you heard what I put on the air this morning, what would your decision be?
unidentified
There's nothing wrong with him being listened to, but you could probably find a half a dozen other experts who would disagree with him.
It's not an exact science.
I think we could all agree with that.
He might be good at it, but there's a lot of guys good at it, and they probably can find a bunch of them that disagree.
art bell
Yeah, but, sir, even allowing for that, and I'll allow for that, let's say it's not an exact science, although he to some degree certainly did argue with that, I think, effectively.
But let's say it's not exact.
It's still strong enough that somebody should be pursuing the whole matter further.
And if they don't, something is obviously wrong.
unidentified
That may be the case, but I still think you're overstating things when you say that America as we know it is no more.
They may be looking into it.
They just may not be making a bunch of noise about it right now.
He's probably not being ignored.
art bell
Do you remember the Watergate hearings?
unidentified
I'm not that old, but I faintly remember them.
art bell
That's too bad.
That's too bad, because there was a lot of noise.
You know, a big investigation and a lot of noise.
And we have more evidence right now that should scream for an investigation than they had when Watergate began, by far.
And there is a deafening silence, a better silence than I can get out my front door.
unidentified
Okay, well, just I can remember when you had the man from Oklahoma City on.
art bell
The man from Oklahoma City.
unidentified
He's a reporter, a very reputable man.
He made a heck of a story.
art bell
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, you're wrong again.
See, your memory is very selective.
He was an investigator for the television station, KF4 television in Oklahoma City.
unidentified
Oh, okay, I remember that.
I thought he was an investigative reporter, but he's just an investigator for an investigative PI.
But anyway, I just remember him.
I was just waiting for the story to break, and it never did, or at least it hasn't yet.
art bell
And nor has it changed.
unidentified
Well, maybe you should get him back on there and see what he's up to.
art bell
Well, maybe we should.
I appreciate your call.
Thank you.
unidentified
Thanks, Art.
Right.
art bell
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
I'm calling from Seaside, Oregon.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
And I was just watching CNN, and they were showing those pictures of the star being born.
art bell
Is that amazing or what?
unidentified
Oh, it's gorgeous.
But there's two angles.
They show it, you know, kind of like the fingers going to the left of the TV screen.
And then they have it where it's going straight up.
I'm a sculptures.
And it looks just like fingers.
art bell
I know.
unidentified
It's like a hand.
It is so beautiful.
I know.
art bell
It's creation.
unidentified
Yeah.
Well, it is.
It is kind of all-inspiring, but I agree with someone who said earlier, what are they not telling us?
But we are already finding out there some spectacular things coming.
art bell
Well, I don't know.
What's in that photograph is as good as any science fiction book anywhere.
unidentified
Yeah.
Well, I don't think we need to live with much science fiction anymore.
Most of what, like Jules Verne, has came true, and then every time we talk about science fiction, it becomes the now science.
art bell
It certainly does.
unidentified
Yeah, and I want to thank you.
You have such a nice show.
Thank you.
And I get viewed about 16 different ways, probably, on the coast here.
art bell
You do?
unidentified
Well, I can get five or six stations.
I get as far as Spokane, sometimes Salt Lake, sometimes Reno, sometimes Eugene, sometimes Portland.
art bell
All depends on the atmosphere.
unidentified
Yeah, we're right on the ocean here.
art bell
Well, then I think that does enhance SCIP a little bit.
unidentified
I want to ask you something else.
art bell
Sure.
unidentified
With all the things that you talk about on your show, how do you balance it without getting too anxious about the possibilities of the things that could happen?
I know, you know, you encourage people not to get paranoid.
art bell
I do.
And I balance myself in a lot of different ways, ma'am.
And I don't always succeed.
And I don't mean to give that impression.
There are times when I am affected by what I do.
But I try.
I mean, you know, life is life.
And if a comet's going to come crashing into Earth, basically, I can't stop it.
unidentified
Well, I'm worried about the tsunami that we're going to get here in Oregon.
art bell
All right, so I've been prepared.
That's another good thing.
If a 100-foot wave is going to come washing over your head.
unidentified
You don't have a chance anyway.
art bell
There's not a lot you're going to do about it.
unidentified
Yeah, unless you get some warning.
art bell
Try a little body surfing for a few seconds, and then it's over.
unidentified
Well, I know something else I wanted to ask you from a long time ago when you first had the alien thing going about the autopsy.
art bell
Oh, yes.
unidentified
And I got your newsletter.
Yes.
When I opened that and I saw those figures, every time I see a crop circle, I get the same impression.
I know what they are, but I can't tell you.
It's like I've seen them or they're in my mind somewhere or I've seen them somewhere.
But when I see a crop circle, I'm almost certain there's a message there, but I can't translate it.
art bell
You're not yet to the mashed potato stage.
unidentified
Well, I don't know what you mean by that.
art bell
Well, don't you remember?
Close encounters of the third kind.
unidentified
No, no, no.
Remember the mashed potato thing where it was building the little It's like a lot of the things that, you know, have been coming out about this.
It's like, okay, I know that.
It's okay.
I don't feel scared of that.
art bell
I'm not beyond believing there is a conditioning process underway.
unidentified
I believe that, too, because I know that there was inklings that they knew about Pegasus 51 a couple years ago.
art bell
Boy, I'll tell you.
unidentified
And for it to be released now.
art bell
There sure have been a lot of recent discoveries, haven't there?
unidentified
It makes you stop and say, well, it's like the guy last night from Australia.
You stop and evaluate your Personal life, and you live your life according to what you can.
art bell
That's right.
unidentified
And you hope you don't get run over by a Mac truck.
art bell
That is about my attitude.
And I don't commute anymore, so my odds of getting hit by the Mac truck are reduced.
unidentified
Well, and I'm disabled, so I don't hardly go anywhere either.
art bell
Well, there you are.
All right.
Thank you very much for the call, and just hang in there.
Dealing with current events and news and the things I do, you have to learn some sort of balance.
And as I said, I do not always succeed.
I'm human like everybody else.
Some of the scallion stuff gets to me.
But again, what are you going to do?
I suppose if California drops off and falls into the ocean or something, I'll take notice and I'll say, well, gee whiz, better move east.
But I don't know, where are you going to go?
If Scallion's future map were to be, life on this planet would never be the same again.
Ever.
Well, you should never say never, but generally speaking, in the foreseeable generations, it would not be.
It would reshape everything.
I'm not saying all life would be extinguished because it would not.
But it wouldn't be the same for a long time.
So you contemplate these things as you do the birth of stars and photographs of the birth of stars.
And the process of creation and all of these other things.
They're wonderful to contemplate.
And so I'm happy to be around contemplating them.
And I settle for that.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
Yeah, Art.
Do you recall when they were investigating the Koresh problems and those two ATF agents were in the gun shop?
And the guy that owned the gun shop called Koresh and invited them to talk to him.
And Koresh offered them to come out and inspect his armory.
I do.
Now, that was sworn testimony, so I'm assuming it has to be true.
So nothing was done about that.
So there was no need to cover up or anything else.
The ATF had an opportunity at any time that they wanted to to go out there and inspect his arms and see if there's any problems, which they didn't.
And it led to a whole bunch of other problems.
Then we get back to Ruby Ridge, and we see a whole flock of things that went on within the ATF and the FBI.
art bell
Yes, yes.
unidentified
And then we get back to this, what do they call it, when Hillary was trying to switch the agency for travel arrangements and everything.
art bell
Travel gate.
unidentified
And they called in the FBI to validate what they claim was wrong with a bunch of people.
We get down to this forgery thing, and this note was given to the FBI for inspection for forgery, and they only looked at one other document that he had written on.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
And back and said, this is obviously a valid document.
Now, what does this profile tell you about what's going on here, about the accuracy and the efficiency of these agencies that we're dealing with here?
art bell
Well, we already know there is an international group that's going to look into the FBI's crime line because of exactly those kinds of problems.
So what does it tell you?
I'm not concerned about the FBI, sir.
They'll be looked into.
I am well aware that they only looked at one example of handwriting to come to the conclusion they did.
I'm saying that I just presented stronger evidence than theirs that it is a forgery.
Now, either something happens as a result of that or not.
Either that is an absolute reason to force an investigation that will either confirm or deny what was just heard on my program a couple hours ago.
You know, or it's not.
And if it's not, then that means there are basic things that have changed about America since even the days of Watergate.
There are basic things that have changed.
You see, I lived through those days.
I remember.
So I guess I'm a little philosophical about the whole thing.
I probably ought to be angry and jumping up and down.
I just laid it out.
And either somebody's going to pick it up and say, look, this demands, this is evidence that demands an investigation or not.
Simple as that.
You tell me.
And your answer says a lot about what kind of America we live in right now.
And I'll repeat for effect.
It's not an agenda.
All right?
I'm not a Clinton basher.
I don't like President Clinton.
I'll be flat-out honest with you.
Some guy called early in the show this morning and said he's a communist.
I said, no, he's not.
No, he's not.
He's not a communist.
He's, you know, communists, they have principles.
Albeit ones we don't agree with, they have principles, things they believe in.
To me, our president is without any basic grounding with the exception of the desire to be re-elected and be in office.
unidentified
So...
art bell
I really don't, I don't, I can't say that I hate him because I don't.
I don't hate President Clinton.
unidentified
I really don't.
art bell
He's been kind of a mediocre president.
He's done a lot of things I certainly disagree with.
But if you think that I put on this expert in handwriting, the world's foremost expert at Oxford, to go after Clinton for political reasons, you're all wet.
Absolutely, flat out, all wet.
I did it Just in case anybody out there cares to pursue the truth if it's important anymore in this country.
With regard to Ruby Ridge and Waco, God knows we've got just the ending of another Waco hearing.
Ruby Ridge, we know a lot about that, don't we?
We know what they did wrong there, don't we?
There's been testimony.
There's been people copping the fifth.
It's not over.
unidentified
There may be people indicted.
art bell
So we know a lot about Ruby Ridge.
We know a lot about Waco.
But what do we know about the supposed suicide against Foster?
You tell me, what do we know?
Well, we now know that the suicide note, according to an expert, is in all likelihood a forgery.
In fact, he was quite plain about it.
Now, what does that mean?
If the note was forged, I don't want to lay it out for you.
You lay it out for me.
What does it mean?
If that note is a forgery, what does it mean?
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, R, this is Nick over in Seattle.
Good.
art bell
Welcome.
unidentified
Yeah, I'm on call on Como now, not KVI.
art bell
That's right.
Switch over at 1 o'clock.
unidentified
Yep.
Hey, I got some information for you to pass along.
Okay.
You said you did not have a picture of the stars or not?
art bell
Well, I don't have a GIF file of it yet.
unidentified
Okay, I can give you three of them.
art bell
Wow.
unidentified
I have the web address to NASA, and if you want that, I can give that to you over the air.
art bell
Well, you're welcome.
Is it a long address?
unidentified
Yes and no.
It's a NASA, basically.
If you go to NASA, the main office on the web, their public address office, the public affairs office, they have all the images you ever want.
art bell
Can you go to the web crawler and just enter the keyword NASA and that'll take you there?
unidentified
Exactly.
That's how I did it.
art bell
All right, there you go.
These long, these, oh, I'm telling you, I let people give out web addresses, and it's just almost impossible.
I mean, it goes on and on and on and on.
They've got to figure out an easier way to get addresses on the web.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, definitely.
They're just getting too long now.
They got, I mean, almost 30 characters at least now.
art bell
I know.
unidentified
And then they get longer and longer as you get files and stuff like that.
art bell
I know.
unidentified
Don't shorten up eventually.
Hey, what about that picture, though?
art bell
I think I've never in my life seen anything like it.
I look forward to the high-quality image that I'll get on my computer.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, they got three different kinds.
They got a real general medium color resolution.
They got a really high black and white one.
Extremely good.
art bell
Yeah, when you looked at it, and when you sit there and look at it, what kind of feeling comes over you?
unidentified
A sheer awesome empower.
That's the best way to describe it.
And to be honest, I'm not a real religious person, but when I did see that, it just kind of like looks like almost the hand of God or something like that.
That's what I thought.
I saw the three fingers almost like the hand of God.
This is a star or something.
It is a pretty amazing sight.
And I can't even believe how big this is.
I mean, they said on the news that this thing, the Earth is one little dot on this page.
art bell
Sir, it seems illogical to me that there is not a higher force B. Yeah, it's incredible.
unidentified
It's just amazing.
This actual 7,000 years ago.
Where are we 7,000 years from now?
art bell
Yeah.
It's wonderful.
I mean, it's almost like 2010 where something wonderful is going to happen.
Well, that photograph is almost something wonderful.
unidentified
Well, we're getting close.
I'll tell you that much.
art bell
Yeah.
unidentified
I got a feeling.
We're getting close.
art bell
Thank you, sir.
unidentified
Sure, no problem.
art bell
Take care.
It is that impressive.
The photograph, obviously, is going to rapidly circulate, and by morning, I will have some good copies, and we'll take the best of what I find and put it on the bulletin board for you.
It is like the hand of God, though.
How can you watch the creation of stars?
The actual creation.
Albeit 7,000 years ago, you're actually watching a star being born.
And if you didn't see the photograph, there are not words that will do justice to what Hubble picked up.
I think we just paid for Hubble.
This photograph will, for the rest of our lives, I'm sure, be shown.
It was and is remarkable.
And how somebody can look at that and not imagine the hand of a creator is beyond me.
I'm not a thumper.
You know me?
unidentified
I'm not a thumper.
art bell
But there is a force that we do not understand.
Some of you will say, well, I understand it.
There is a force that I don't understand that is behind that.
And that's about as far as I can go.
I do believe that there is a creator force.
And that is comforting.
And that photograph, for that reason, for me, is not eerie or scary.
It is actually comforting.
unidentified
This is Premier Networks.
That was Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM.
On this, Somewhere in Time.
On this, Somewhere in Time.
On this, Somewhere in Time.
On this, Somewhere in Time.
You're listening to Art Bell somewhere in time.
Tonight, featuring Coast to Coast A.M. from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
I've got facts here that I'm going to read, and I'll deal with it in a second concerning Vince Foster and the hearings yesterday, and I was aware of it.
I will read the facts and deal with it.
I didn't bring it up for a good reason, but I will read the facts.
Here we go.
Art, the following occurred yesterday in the Senate Whitewater hearings.
During a series of intense questions regarding phone records, Maggie Williams, Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff, answered, quote, the night Vince was killed, end quote, and then quickly corrected herself to the night Vince committed suicide.
This was about a half hour into the hearing.
I've got it on tape if you'd like to hear it.
I did hear it.
Thank you.
Please verify an error if you feel it is relevant.
Either way, it sure was an interesting slip of the tongue.
I was going to phone, but I felt you'd rather have the choice of airing this or not.
Thanks again for all the great information, Bonnie of Foster City.
Well, Bonnie, yes, I was aware of it.
It's just that I think that if we want the investigation to move forward, we're not going to do it on the backs or the back of a slip of the tongue.
We're going to do it with the kind of thing that I gave you and everybody else this morning.
That is what's going to push a deeper investigation.
So I was aware of it.
It is interesting, but it would be regarded as generally irrelevant by anybody who would be considering a further investigation or probe into the whole Vince Foster matter.
Now, what I gave you this morning is not irrelevant and would be considered by anybody judging whether to further investigate as undeniably important information demanding a pursuit.
So I chose not to air that, even though I was aware of it, I saw it.
Interesting, but maybe I watched too much of Judge Ito, you know.
When you're considering what it will take to force a further look, a slip-o-de-lip will not do it.
But a world-renowned handwriting expert and two others will.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Yes, Mr. Bell.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
This is Terry.
I'm from Alton, Illinois, which is right next to St. Louis.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
I only have a couple of things to tell you, one of which would be we listened to K-Ram 1380.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
But we're not picking you up very much.
art bell
I know.
unidentified
Oh, you do know?
I know.
Okay.
art bell
I will give you a little information, okay?
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Beginning in about two weeks, look for us on KSD.
unidentified
KSD?
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
KSB, okay.
You know what the numbers are?
art bell
Oh, well, you know what?
I have forgotten.
It's way down low on the dial.
I'm sorry.
I've forgotten.
unidentified
Okay, sir.
art bell
It's a far more powerful station.
unidentified
Okay.
Another thing I wanted to tell you, is it okay if I say something about ghost?
art bell
Well, ghosts or ghosts?
unidentified
Ghosts.
Just a second, I got...
All right.
art bell
Going to say something about ghosts.
Boy, that was a good.
That sure was a good letter from an immortal, wasn't it?
All right, are you back?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
I had a plumbing problem here and the whole thing busted.
Anyway, the other evening on 94 Halloween, we were talking about ghosts.
Have you ever heard of a gentleman called Robert Wadlow, they called the Alton Giant?
No.
Okay, well, he's pretty well known to you out there whole United States.
He was like 8'11 or something, and he died very young.
And he died many, many years ago.
Anyway, the house that my wife and I own...
art bell
Yes, it is.
I'm kind of not taking them because if I get started with ghost stories again here, I won't be able to stop it.
unidentified
Okay, thank you.
art bell
If you've got a really good ghost story, save it.
We may be forced to do a semi-annual ghost show.
Okay.
So when I do a show, save it for that.
unidentified
I'll do that, sir.
art bell
All right, bless your heart.
unidentified
And one other thing, I'm a, well, I'm still in the reserve, but you know that fellow he always calls in?
I always get him confused, but the guy that claims to be a Democrat, Charlie, or something like that?
Charles.
art bell
Well, there's Charlie, and then there's Doc Democrat, and then there's a bunch of others.
unidentified
It's the Charles guy.
The other evening, right before the radio, went on a blink again when you were talking to somebody that was having that dispute or whatever conversation.
I'm inclined to go along with what he said and what you said as well, that if asked, would he go to Boston?
Well, he answered the question right there.
art bell
He sure did.
unidentified
He said no, and that's a perfectly good reason why he likes President Clinton, having been to Vietnam myself for 18 months and two other wars.
I think he fits right up there with Willie.
art bell
Appreciate your call, sir.
Thank you.
It would take an unusual person, which President Clinton is, to be able to order 20, 25,000 Americans to go stand in Bosnia in the middle of the landmines and all the danger when he was not himself willing to fight in a war which,
though very controversial, arguably, had more national security reasons to be fought than what we're going to have to do in Bosnia.
It would truly take a person with malleable principles.
How's that?
Malleable principles to be able to give such an order.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
This is Joseph from Aurora Randy.
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
How's it going?
art bell
Fine.
unidentified
Yeah, you know, when I first heard about that Vince Monster thing, I mean, it was too off the wall.
Even when I first heard about the alleged suicide, it was just too fantastic.
art bell
Yeah, it felt wrong.
unidentified
Yeah, I had bad feelings about it, and I still do.
But I wanted to congratulate you on your trip to Peru.
art bell
Well, I haven't made it yet.
unidentified
Well, when you go.
art bell
I think I am going to go, yes.
unidentified
Yeah, I want to go, too.
art bell
You do?
unidentified
Yeah.
I mean, well, not with you, but by myself.
art bell
Well, that'll be all right.
You don't have to go with me.
unidentified
I'm always interested in.
I called you about the crop circles a while back.
Yes.
And the lady that had called you earlier about them.
Yes.
She was...
I feel that there's some kind of universal thought patterns sent to awaken our inner being.
art bell
Well, then, why don't they write them in some way that we can understand?
In other words, like, you know, instead of these hard-to-understand circles and symbols, symbology, why not just say humans get it together or else?
unidentified
Well, in effect, they are how we understand.
How we understand truth.
art bell
Well, I'm sorry.
I don't.
You're going to have to give me something more to go on than that.
What evidence can you give me that these crop circles have any meaning whatsoever?
unidentified
All we have to do is just look in the mirror at ourselves.
art bell
All right.
Well, okay, thanks.
that's an answer, but it's not one that I'm looking for.
I'm not saying the crop circles do not have some meaning that we have not yet managed to grasp.
They are interesting.
They're intriguing.
They're not, I've seen no ready answers.
explanation for them, but I've also seen no interpretation or scientific analysis of what they do mean by anybody.
So if they wanted the message to be clear, it should be written in English.
And believe me, if that began appearing in fields around the country, get it together or the petri dish is about to be cleaned out, something along those lines, then we'd have something to go on.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hey, Eric.
Calling from KHO, Denver?
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Yeah, this is John.
Hi.
Listen, just a couple notes on the Vince Foster thing in media.
Sure.
About, I think it was a week ago, Sunday, the New York Times did a real hatchet job on Chris Ruddy?
Yeah.
art bell
Along with 60 Minutes.
unidentified
Yeah, and that was just, interestingly, a couple of days before he was on your show with the new evidence.
But also, on the good side, day before yesterday, Rush did a segment.
art bell
I know, I heard it.
unidentified
Yeah, well, I was glad because he had so many listeners, and I thought, gee, he's finally catching up to art here.
So the other good thing today is that I finally did hear on a regular news channel a rather sarcastic statement from Senator D'Amato about these hearings and how it seemed rather odd that nobody in Hillary Clinton's office was able to recall any of these telephone conversations.
Well, Senator DiMato's sarcastic about a lot of things, but in other words, you really deserve some congratulations for being on this thing, as you've been.
In fact, I'm one of the guys who called in and talked to Chris Ruddy that one time.
art bell
Oh, yes.
unidentified
I remember asking him about the cover-up, if you want to call it that, with the driving accident.
And he said it was interesting how they hushed that up so quickly.
Anyway, some things are happening, and I think they're in large part due to you, so I hope you get some response from what you're doing, Art.
art bell
I thank you, my friend.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Take care.
I'm not an investigator.
I repeat, I'm just a talk show host, and I'm just trying to follow the truth, follow the path to the truth.
And I think it was a great book title, wasn't it?
Referring to religion, Evidence That Demands a Verdict.
Well, let's change it a little and say evidence that demands an investigation.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
Coast to Coast AM from November 2nd, 1995.
art bell
Back we go east of the Rockies.
You're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
How are you doing tonight?
art bell
Okay, where are you?
unidentified
I'm in Braden, Florida.
art bell
Bradenton, Florida.
unidentified
Excellent.
art bell
Glad to have you.
unidentified
I was just calling because it's interesting you're talking about having a hard time convincing people to look into stuff.
I just talked to Dan Miller's office yesterday.
He's our congressman over here in this area, and a few of us got together and have been looking into a lot of stuff, including Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing and a lot of other stuff that involves Clinton.
But we can't seem to get anybody interested in the stuff that we have.
art bell
Well, what do you have?
unidentified
Well, I've got, I don't know if you've seen it, there's a couple videos out that were made by Linda Thompson on Waco.
art bell
You mean the same Linda Thompson that called for people to go marching on Washington and have funny?
And wait a minute.
And have people's trials and hang congressmen from the street if they don't meet her demands?
unidentified
That sure sounds like a great idea.
No.
I'm kidding.
art bell
Well, no, sir.
Stop.
Linda Thompson was on my program.
Back when she was doing her initial work on Waco, it had value.
Linda Thompson blew herself out of the water.
unidentified
But not the pictures.
I mean, you're talking about the pictures.
art bell
Yeah, even to some degree there.
Because there is continuing photography showing that tank continuing to pull back and showing clearly an item on it.
unidentified
There was a computerized digital enhancement.
The actual video that she had was analog video, which came out.
art bell
Well, the reason you can't get anybody interested is because Linda Thompson hurt herself.
unidentified
Well, I agree with that, but I'm saying, as an individual, let's set her aside and say, yes, she's a nutcase.
I don't disagree with that at all.
art bell
I didn't say that.
unidentified
Okay, well, I will say that.
If she's calling for the overthrow of the government with violent means, of course, that's ridiculous.
art bell
But she did that.
You know, do you know that she did that on this program?
And I actually went live for an extra hour.
I couldn't believe she was saying it.
I wanted to give her a chance to take it back or squirm out of it or whatever.
And she just dug a deeper hole.
And that show ended.
And I never had her back, and I never will.
unidentified
Right.
Well, I don't disagree with you there.
My point is simply that the second video that she made is just chock full of not only video pictures, but also documentation of different things that clearly show that.
art bell
Yeah, not all her work was bad.
Look, sir, we all know there's a hell of a lot that was wrong with what occurred at Waco and Ruby Ridge.
But these things are being investigated still.
We just got done with more Waco hearings.
Ruby Ridge yet will produce, I feel, indictments.
But the Vince Foster case, sir, that one is all but signed, sealed, and delivered as being a Suicide.
unidentified
Well, did you read the article that came out last week about the juror, the grand juror that was thrown out of the grand jury because he wanted to talk out about the larger conspiracy on the bombing?
Did you hear about that?
art bell
No.
unidentified
Famous Hoppy Heidelberg, 55 years old.
He was one of the grand jurors, and he was thrown off because he said that there's a lot of evidence that's being covered up by the government of a grand conspiracy of many more people than the two that they've arrested.
art bell
Well, I would say that grand juror might have been out of line with.
unidentified
He says in the article, I'm reading it here.
It says, I don't, he says, I don't think it's a good idea.
art bell
Yeah, but it is not for an individual grand juror to get up proclaiming conspiracies and blah, blah, blah.
It is for the grand juror to sit there and receive evidence and decide whether indictments are justified based on that evidence.
unidentified
They refuse to show the evidence.
He says there's considerable evidence that there were more than two people involved and that should have been presented in the families of the surgeon.
art bell
Well, if the evidence was so strong, then why didn't the rest of the grand jury walk out?
unidentified
Well, I'm sure that they're considering that.
I certainly would.
I have more evidence than the government cares to talk about.
I'm one of those people that have nothing better to do with my life than to dig around and sneak around and try to figure things out.
art bell
The trouble with that is you listen on the air.
The trouble with that is, and I think that's what happened to Linda.
You can become involved in this so-called, I'll put it in quotes, patriot movement, and there is so much disinformation, misinformation, downright paranoia, that if you've got, as you just said, too much time on your hands, you can begin to get to be affected by it.
And I'm telling you, because I received daily doses of it by facts, to the degree that I had to threaten to sue some people to stop them from sending me faxes.
And I would have, too.
I was all prepared.
I don't want to see that tripe.
There are proper venues for investigation.
And a lot of what's going on out there, and again, the so-called quote patriot community is downright dangerous paranoia.
And it's going to lead to more anti-government bombings.
It's going to lead to, eventually, unchecked, a clash between the militias and the government.
And maybe more.
It's dangerous.
We still have a system that allows proper investigation of apparent wrongdoing or alleged wrongdoing.
And we better stay within those guidelines.
And when we leave them, we do so at the peril of all we have built.
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
This is Dan in the U District.
art bell
Hey, Dan.
unidentified
And guess what was in my mailbox yesterday?
art bell
My book.
unidentified
You got it.
And I'm not going to rush into it.
I'm going to take it a little bit at a time, sort of savor it like a fine wine.
art bell
Well, I will ask you only this tonight.
Is it a beautiful book or what?
unidentified
Fabulously beautiful.
It surpassed my expectations.
When you said it was a work of art, you hit the nail on the head.
art bell
Well, I wanted it to be special, and you know I was approached by HarperCollins and a bunch of other big ones.
What I wanted is what I got, and it is beautiful.
And tomorrow night, I'm going to set aside a line, finally.
I've been trying not to talk about my book.
I'm going to set aside a line, and I'm going to let people like you who have the book talk about it.
unidentified
Well, I don't see anything wrong with you talking about your book.
Well, I know, but if I put out a book like that, I'd be real proud of it.
art bell
I am proud of it, sir.
I'm so proud of it that I burst.
But I wanted to wait until it got into enough hands out there so it was realistic to open the phone lines.
It is there now.
A lot of people will get it, no doubt, also on Friday.
Right.
unidentified
And we'll let the audience decide.
Oh, yeah.
You're going to get some good feedback on that.
art bell
Well, I certainly hope so.
As I said, I am proud of it.
And it'll be out again in the second printing in mid-November, just in time for Christmas.
unidentified
All right.
That's really neat.
art bell
Dan, you get the honor.
Say goodnight, America.
unidentified
From the U District in Seattle, Washington.
Keep looking up, and Goodnight, America.
art bell
That's it.
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