Art Bell dissects the 1996 GOP race, where Bob Dole leads with 1,000+ delegates despite Pat Buchanan’s divisive but attention-grabbing campaign, while GM strikes halt production at 26 plants, displacing 150,000 workers. He debates Richard Hoagland’s moon civilization claims, callers report a visible comet near the Big Dipper’s handle (10° sky), and speculates on China’s potential Taiwan strike amid U.S. warnings. A trapped orange cat, named "Comet," sparks playful banter about cosmic theories, while callers grapple with paradigm shifts—from pre-flood civilizations to "new physics" that could upend Christianity, Marxism, and Darwinism. The episode blends fringe science, political tension, and feline whimsy, underscoring how even mundane moments (like a cat’s name) mirror humanity’s obsession with uncovering hidden truths. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert and the great American Southwest to the world.
Actually, we've got our new international 800 line in this morning.
Whether it works or not is a horse of a different question.
A couple of my other lines are still under the weather as the phone company makes some swaps and changes and moves things around a little bit.
So we'll see what happens.
From Hawaii and the Tahitian Islands in the west, east to the Caribbean in the U.S. Virgin Islands, south into South America, north to Santa Country and the pole, this is coast to coast A.M. Plus or something.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Arbell.
It's great to be here.
And it looks like Bob Dole has done it.
He's over a thousand delegates now, some number above that which he needs.
So, well, I guess you're not actually the nominee until you become the nominee in San Diego, but for all intents and purposes, it's a done deal.
Pat Buchanan, kind of unsure what's going to happen with Pat.
The only open question right now is who Dole will pick as a running mate.
And I do not believe it's going to be Pat Buchanan.
I know that's what a lot of his supporters would like.
And I've thought it over.
And if I was Bob Dole, it's a two-edged sword.
On the one hand, Pat Buchanan would unify the Republican Party, would bring the Dole and maybe some of the Perot voters in.
On the negative side, all the things done to Pat Buchanan, Bill Clinton and company, would try and lay on Bob Dole through Pat Buchanan.
And the first tenant of picking a running mate is do no harm with your choice.
Do no harm.
So it might be viewed that Pat Buchanan would do harm.
On the other hand, vice presidents have always been lightning rods.
And Pat Buchanan is a good lightning rod.
The whole top of his head has been singed for years.
So he might make a good vice president.
Probably would make a good VP.
And the problem, of course, is that, you know, Dole and Buchanan are at opposite poles of a number of questions, economically, the life question, all the rest of it.
Well, it has happened again, ladies and gentlemen.
I told you over the last couple days there was yet another cat under my house.
As I mentioned last night, we laid out our have a heart trap, thank you, the Los Angeles group that sent it to me, Humane Society, And it worked snap at about 3 in the morning, I estimate, because at 4 o'clock in the morning, I went out to my window, you know, and I shined my light out there, and there was a little orange fur ball in my trap.
So thankfully, things resolved themselves this time, and we did as we did before and carried the cat trap into our bathroom and put some stuff down, and it stayed there until 8 o'clock this morning.
And we went to the veterinarian, and they gave our new cat, as yet unnamed, male, by the way, or at least was, gave our cat a test for feline leukemia, number one.
That came out negative, so then they proceeded to do the other things they did.
And in the morning, we get our new cat back.
Feral, to be sure, about a year old, but feral, definitely a wild cat, so this is going to be interesting.
I did not want three cats.
Had this one, like my last one, had feline leukemia.
And if I'd had to put it down, I would not have gone out and replaced it.
But this is cosmic cat.
Maybe that's what we ought to do.
Trying to think of a name for our cat.
Maybe you can help out.
Cosmic in the sense that when they come to you, how this cat got in, I mean, I've got a big fence up now, you know, and how it even got here escapes me, or it's been there a long time.
I don't know.
I don't know.
At first, you know, we dangled some food in front of the trap, and he was smart enough to eat all that food.
It was gone like a flash.
Then back under the house, but he didn't go into the trap.
Then, about the middle of the night, he went into the trap, and we got him.
So anyway, we've got him, and he's healthy, skinny as can be, because, you know, he hasn't been, heaven knows, I don't even want to know what he's been eating under there.
But he's healthy, according to the vet, getting all his shots and all that kind of stuff.
Claws are going.
Maleness is going, and he will be an inside cat.
What will be interesting is how he will interact with my other two cats who kind of hate each other.
He may be an interesting addition.
So we're going to see.
We're going to pick him up in the morning.
In the morning, we have a new cat.
You can think of it.
He's gold, well, orange, and he has gold eyes.
He's really going to be quite pretty when he finally begins to eat.
Hearts coming from everywhere else, other factories.
Cheaper.
Ford, Chrysler, do a lot of it.
So there is a lot of anxiety in America about jobs.
And Mr. Buchanan, and to some degree even Bob Dole lately, have been bashing industry, you know, for the downsizing.
Bob Dole kind of gave it lip service and said, well, I really didn't know this was going to become an issue in this campaign.
And what he really meant by that is, normally Republicans wouldn't make it an issue, and they wouldn't.
Pat Buchanan has.
Robert Eaton, who is CEO of Chrysler Corporation, finally got sick of it yesterday and had quite a say.
He is one of Detroit's top CEOs, and he's tired of all the criticism being lumped on large companies that downsize to make them leaner and meaner, more profitable and attractive on Wall Street.
And he says it's become open season on CEOs, and, says he, it is wrong.
Now I want you to listen to what he says, and we'll have a discussion, I'm sure, about what he says.
Quote, it's partly because it's an election year, and beating up on Wall Street and corporate America is a cheap way to get votes or to sell papers.
This is old-fashioned, empty-headed job, excuse me, tub-thumping popularism.
We've always had a PR problem in America.
We just haven't found a way to dress up certain economic realities so that we can take them out in public.
Making money is still considered tacky in some circles.
It's called greed.
End quote.
He went on to say that even his own mother, who has long been his number one fan, I mean, here he is, the CEO of Chrysler, is now beginning to wonder about him.
And that's because of Pat Buchanan's railing against industry.
Actually, very un-Republican-like.
Buchanan the other day, in an effort to grab some of the Midwest delegates he did not get anyway, actually embraced the idea of supporting the striker replacement bill, which would say corporations can't replace strikers that go out on work by law.
They go out on strike.
The law says the company can't replace them.
It's ridiculous.
It's an abridgment of the freedom of corporations.
And they have freedom too, you know, they're supposed to.
So, You know, freedom is not a one-way street.
Individuals are not the only ones with freedom.
Anyway, corporations really are nothing but individuals.
They're entities.
But, you know, there are people behind these entities, and they've got a right to make a decision.
So you might bear in mind the words from Mr. Eaton.
I thought they would probably generate a discussion.
I'm sure they will.
Listen to what he said again.
It's partly because it's an election year, and beating up on Wall Street and corporate America is a cheap way to get votes or to sell papers.
This is old-fashioned, empty-headed, tub-thumping popularism.
We've always had a PR problem.
We've just not found a way to dress up certain economic realities so that we can take them out in public.
Making money is still considered tacky in some circles.
President's 97 budget, $1.6 trillion, is oot.
The Republicans have declared it dead on arrival.
Now, we've made some progress regarding Richard Hoagland's Thursday news conference.
And I'll read you a fax I just got.
Dear Art, I'm trying to do my part to bring Mr. Hoagland's theories to the knowledge of the general public.
I therefore called the Washington, D.C. number that was given out on your show last night, which is the Viewer Services Department, and listened to a taped recording that said Richard Hoagland's press conference was tentative and that I should call back Wednesday, March 20th, to find out if they indeed are going to broadcast it.
So, C-SPAN is obviously now beginning to waver and thinking about covering the press conference.
Now, I've got a fax here about what Mr. Hoagland talked about, and I thought it'd be worth reading to you.
What reason has mankind to feel threatened by knowledge of human beings having existed on Earth prior to our own known history?
Were we terrorized by the documentary, The Mysterious Origins of Man, that offered proof of that fact?
Does the hair on the nape of our necks rise when we marvel at the technical ability required to build the pyramids of Egypt or South America, which we have not yet figured out?
Why should the sudden realization that our prehistorical ancestors had the technology to get to the moon, Mars, and elsewhere to build a glass-domed station on the moon so shock us as to cause us to abandon our dream of space travel?
Well, this is the question, and I think it's a very good one.
I have come to the point where I'm beginning to believe there have been others before us.
Does that shock you?
And many of you I know who listen to this program are going to say, no, it does not.
But I am of the view that it would utterly disrupt everything about our world that we know and cherish and believe and have faith in If there have been other civilizations of man that have come and gone,
then obviously what we read in the Bible is directly challenged, isn't it?
It doesn't mean there's not a creator, but the story of creation as we understand it is challenged.
No question about it.
So I've done a lot of thinking about this.
Scientific careers are going to be challenged.
The evidence is going to be buried.
Speaking of buried, a strong earthquake shook southern Mexico Tuesday, caused buildings to sway in Mexico City.
No damage or injuries reported yet, but it was strong.
Another, even stronger earthquake of 6.9 magnitude jolted a remote section of northwest China late Tuesday, and I'm getting information that 24 people are dead and that thousands and thousands of people or tens of thousands may be homeless.
So that was a big earthquake warning.
Maybe God shaking his hand at China.
Because we did.
The U.S. today gave yet another sharp warning to China against invading Taiwan.
And the House approved a resolution stating that Washington should help defend Taiwan in the case of such an attack.
This is really interesting.
A senior U.S. official also said Taiwan had asked the U.S. in day-long talks in Washington to provide diesel submarines to Taipei for naval defense.
And we're now going to call west of the Rockies everything from Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, New Mexico, west.
So in other words, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico now need to call 1-800-618-8255.
1-800-618-8255.
Everybody east of those areas calls 1-800-825-5033.
And now, international callers, here's what you do.
And we are now, as you know, carried on the internet, real audio from WPSL in Port St. Lucie and WOAI, the mighty one on 1200 in San Antonio.
They both feed the internet.
And you can receive real audio, feed stream audio, by going to my webpage and jumping to either one of those sites, which means that they can hear us all over the place.
If you are somewhere outside the United States, Canada, or Mexico, here we're going to try this.
I don't know that it's going to work.
You dial the U.S. code, whatever the U.S. code is, and then you dial 1-800-893-0903.
Hey, Art, with tensions rising steadily every day with China, where is this country's civil defense?
You know, the civil defense we used to have.
It has been at least 10 years since I've been a designated, I've seen any sort of designated fallout shelter.
It's true, huh?
If the country at this time is that ill-equipped to deal with this kind of national emergency, even if the country doesn't take a direct nuclear strike, dozens of nuclear warheads detonated, surely, could spread radiation over the jet stream.
You know, that's true.
When was the last time anybody saw a designated shelter?
Maybe they're just politically incorrect.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
How are you, sir?
Okay.
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Wonderful show.
I started listening to you the night you were talking about the whale they exploded up in Oregon.
We laughed.
And then when you compared it to the WKRP turkey thing, we were all hysterical, and I've been listening to you ever since.
And then when you compared it to the WK with Les Nest, we just lost it.
We laughed hysterically.
I just called.
I don't know what's more frustrating, the political campaign or trying to get through to you on the phone.
I was at the gym tonight working out, and they had C-SPAN 2 on, and they were doing the immigration law, and they were all up there up there showboating, and giving their time and conceding their time and getting up and arguing.
And we were all just looking at them, and one of the people on the gym said, whatever happened to the Committee on Un-American Activities.
And HEFIS had never, didn't know what he was talking about.
And he said that when he was younger, during the Tun years, there was a governor, I think, I mean, a Senator McCarran from the state of Nevada who had a lot to do with starting the Committee for Un-American Activities.
And he said that they rooted up and got rid of a lot of people in politics who were actually harming this country.
It might mean that any technological civilization has a certain shelf life.
Think about that.
That things do not simply go on forever.
That, as a natural progression of technology continues, at some point, whether it's in genetics or with computers, or with the environment or whatever it is that a technological society begins doing that it ought not be doing, it ends up getting wiped out almost automatically.
That would not be good news for mankind, would it?
Or you might conclude that it would give us an opportunity to do some research, find out what wiped the last ones out and try and avoid the same pitfall.
Yeah, I just called tonight to say something interesting to you, what I thought was interesting anyway.
Sure.
I really am hungry for news, and I've been someone who's always watched all the news and CNN and all, you know, anything I can watch.
But the regular news, like on the broadcast stations on TV, is so bad now, and I can tune you in and find out things that they don't even say.
So I have this theory that everyone, one of the reasons people listen so much and you hear them on your show so much, is that everyone's really hungry for news.
And it's so interesting also to hear what people all over the United States are thinking instead of just like one little area that's what you get in San Francisco or where I live, you know?
Sure.
So I just called to say that's really neat and I appreciate it.
And I had no idea there was an earthquake in Mexico City.
And the other one is in China, and that one killed a whole bunch of people and made thousands homeless.
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Yeah, all they said was on the on the news tonight was it killed 24, which of course is still a lot, but they didn't say anything about homeless or a lot of homeless.
Well, this is going to be a strange telephone night.
I can tell you right now.
Let me tell you what's going on.
It's going to eventually be very neat.
We have a new international 800 line, and here's the way it works.
Whatever country in the world you're in, you dial the USA direct number.
For example, in Japan, you would dial 0039-111.
From the United Kingdom, you would dial 0500-890011.
Oh my God, all these numbers.
If you're in Sweden, you would dial 020-795-611.
Then our number.
Now, normally, 800 lines are not accessible from outside the U.S.
The phone company has done this specially for us.
Whether it actually has been done or not is a horse of a different question.
The international number, and we were dying to have somebody try this, or maybe you are and it's not working, it's hard to know, is 1-800-893-0903.
Now, the USA, Canada, and Mexico, ostensibly, supposedly, are blocked.
But if you're listening out there on the internet worldwide, the number is 1-800-893-0903.
And let me say one more time, what you do first is dial the USA direct number, the USA direct number for your country.
Then you call 1-800-893-0903.
And if somebody would try that so we know it is working, that would be cool.
Also, we have carved up the East and the West of the Rockies line a little bit so that people west cannot call the East line, people East cannot call the West line, and so forth.
In the process, they seem to have killed my wildcard lines.
great anyway uh... i wanted to uh... also comment on the uh... richard hoagland the other yes and uh... fact that uh... well apparently uh... it is now tentatively uh... possible on c-span Great.
I think that, you know, Art, if you look at the registered voters, for example, in this country, how many people actually turn out and vote on the major elections and the concern that the other percentage of the people have, how is this, you know, this statement or the press conference Thursday is going to affect, again, a certain percentage of the people, and the rest of them are just going to blow it off.
People today, unless it involves them in their everyday life, unless it concerns them personally, they really don't care if there's new buildings on the moon.
The discussion group that we had in line while we were waiting to see you, the neat thing about the six or seven people that I gathered with, and I think that's the way it kind of went all the way down through the line.
And it shows, I think, the overall audience type of feelings they have towards this show that they listen to you not because of your opinion or how that matters to them.
They listen to you because of the way you present everything.
And the regular guy type of attitude with extraordinary talents and an extraordinary condition, which I think you are, being able to speak to so many people in a vast audience night after night.
Yeah, we've talked about that kind of thing many times.
Those kinds of topics.
So to pin that down to a show a year or two ago, I certainly cannot do.
But we deal with those kinds of topics here and on other shows.
Aging?
I get calls and faxes from people who claim to be immortal.
I think I'm the only talk show who gets that.
I get a lot of it.
Government having alien technology?
A lot of people think that.
You know what I've always wondered, though?
If you're an alien, why make contact with the government?
Why not make contact with, I don't know, news people if you want to get the word out or some private, large industrial concern that you might mix it up with, providing something for them.
In other words, why the government?
Wouldn't necessarily be the government.
Now, of course, the government would have great interest in keeping something like that to itself.
I was wondering, did you perhaps ask him if, besides the structures on the moon, are there any noticeable footprints or wheel prints or equipment left behind or anything like that?
I've heard separate stories about equipment supposedly left behind, and I don't know a word about, he hasn't said a word.
Look, what he said to me privately is no different than what he said publicly.
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Well, I was just wondering, because since they can't just spring out of the ground, somebody had to put them there, and there should be some evidence of somebody having been there other than just the structures.
An old McDonald's on the moon, absolutely riddled with craters and impacts, but still enough of the sign left sort of swinging for no discernible reason without much gravity, like in the old Western days, you know, the broken-down old place, with a sign that says over 3 trillion served.
Now, that would give mankind a big reason to worry, wouldn't it?
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
Hello there?
Well, that's all right.
We're going to break it off at that point because we've got a break for the bottom of the hour anyway.
And I thought we'd go rocking out.
Don't forget we've got our new international line up and maybe operating.
We will see as the morning goes on.
Stay right where you are.
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This is Premier Networks.
That was Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM on this Somewhere in Time.
During the sweet moment, yes, I knew the teeth of the hide upon you.
And it's going to be kind of a strange morning because my phone lines are in strange condition.
All I can tell you is we hope we have a new international line, but it might not be functional yet.
The way it works is, and it was done specially for us by the phone company, the phone company, is that if you're out there internationally somewhere, other than Canada, America, and Mexico, you're supposed to be able to call your AT ⁇ T country code for the U.S. and then dial 1-800-893-0903.
Let me give that again.
You dial the AT ⁇ T country code for the U.S., wherever you are.
Then you dial 1-800-893-0903.
And it has not yet rung.
So it may be that it is not yet working.
Otherwise, the wildcard line is down this morning.
And the other numbers are, we believe, functional, though modified a little bit.
How's that for a lot of changes in one night, huh?
I was wondering what would happen if those guys over in Montana, those militia people, if they was to make a plan and just go up there and blow it up, what would that happen to all the people that write about it?
It is an antenna array that is gigantic, covering great amounts of geography.
So I'm not sure how you'd do that.
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Well, I wouldn't know how you do it either.
This thought just crossed my mind because I think, well, what the book talks about, you know, I would say it would be just about criminal what they're going to do to the society.
We will, in the next newsletter, assuming I can get the photographs back quickly enough, get you some photographs of what occurred up in Portland and get those into the newsletter.
But coming up in this edition of the newsletter, we're going to have pictures of HARP, pictures of the Aurora, a story by Dr. Begich about HARP, and an interview with the program manager for HAARP, Mr. Hecksherer.
And people internationally are going to be able to call their country code for the USA, your ATT country code for the USA, whatever that is, and then 1-800-893-0903.
So if you're out there, keep trying.
The AT ⁇ T country code for the USA and then 1-800-893-0903.
And at some point, when they get this little block removed or whatever it is, you'll be able to get through.
So that's number one.
Number two, the East and West of the Rockies line are being split by the phone company.
And it may be they don't quite have it right yet.
Because people in Michigan cannot seem to call the East line.
People in Pennsylvania can't seem to call the East line, we have found out.
So be patient.
If you cannot get through, report to us that you cannot get through.
And if you can't get through on one line, try the other.
West of the Rockies, it's 1-800-618-8255.
East of the Rockies, it's 1-800-825-5033.
Well, we'll struggle through, and I'm sure they'll get it all straightened out.
Cat name idea, I've got a new cat.
Trapped a new cat under my house, little orange furball with golden eyes.
And I think that somebody, I think the name ought to be Comet.
Somebody just sent me another fact, said, what's orange and has a long tail?
Comet.
That's a pretty good name.
And I like it best so far.
Here's somebody who writes and says from Auburn, Washington, name the cat Steve.
WJR got us back.
They did indeed have a feed problem in Detroit and slipped a tape on and then got us back on.
So there you are.
That is not an unusual thing to occur with 255 affiliates out there.
Stuff happens.
And so I guess they were scrambling to get it back.
Hey, Art, you mentioned alien contact, which reminded me of a quote.
I'm not sure who said this.
I believe he was a UFO expert of some kind.
When asked why UFOs don't make contact with us, the response was, well, I go walking in the forest, but I don't stop to talk to the squirrels.
That is enough to make a party feel insignificant.
Well, I go walking in the forest, but I don't stop to talk to the squirrels.
And that about ought to do it for you, I suppose.
By the way, do not call our wildcard line tonight because it is non-functional.
So we have a very dysfunctional telephone system this morning.
And we'll just kind of, it'll be catch-as-catch can.
Another facts, as you know, there have been earthquakes.
A big one in China, a moderately strong one in Mexico, and now KABC, my affiliate in Los Angeles, reporting that it was 4.0 near New Hall, just a little ways from New Hall where it was epicentered.
And it was quite palpable.
Good word.
That's from Joan in Thousand Oaks.
So there you have it.
Then this.
Oh, I see.
WJR has indeed been having problems with its satellite feed, apparently due to the weather.
They're having a lot of snow.
Oh, that's what it is.
That's what it is.
Now listening to you from Ypsilanti, Michigan on WJR 760, what happens is it snows and the snow fills up the satellite dish.
And when it does, the parabola or the curvature of the satellite dish is artificially changed by the snow.
And it promptly stops working.
And so usually what's got to happen is they've got to go out there with a broom and sweep the dish off to keep the parabola so that the focus of the signal being picked up is put back into the LNB or LNC or the focal point of the dish, technically.
And you wouldn't want the name of a sponsor just appearing over the event horizon with the cat.
Now, one more thing.
When I was coming home from work this afternoon, we know how every local radio station, both AM and FM side, have their own email addresses they constantly give out, and some of them even have their own web pages, right?
So I'm listening to one of the top 40 FM stations, one of the big ones here in town, and I just have to dial into them, and bingo, they're talking about Richard Hoagland.
You know, I guess there wasn't at the time that I went.
But let me tell you how I had to go to Portland when I went.
Going up was not bad.
We landed in Salt Lake City, and they opened the airplane's doors, and it got very cold.
So it was cold up there.
Well, I'll tell you one thing: Salt Lake is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful area.
Flew over the Great Salt Lake.
Man, it's weird from the air.
There are areas of the Salt Lake that are purple from the air.
It's really weird.
At any rate, Salt Lake and then Portland.
Coming home, I had to fly from Portland to Oakland, from Oakland to Los Angeles, from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
Now, as I was leaving the airport in Las Vegas, I saw a gigantic sign that said brand new, direct Las Vegas to Portland service.
I thought a big billboard as I came home, and I thought, hmm.
But I suppose to get me there at the appropriate time, they had to pull some strings and send me here and there.
And they certainly did send me here and there.
Coming into Los Angeles is always a nail-biter for me.
And the reason for that is that there is so much traffic.
Plus, it takes you about as long to taxi, once you land at LAX, to the point where the airplane is going to board Disgorge and then board its new passengers.
It takes as long on the ground as it did to get from Oakland to LA.
I mean, it's like we did half the trip in the air and the other half the trip on the ground as we taxied.
He said he's receiving an awful lot of calls because of the Art Bell radio program.
I also called Susan Pettit at CNN, Burden of Proof.
The response, the same.
So, if it is on C-SPAN, what time, Las Vegas time, that is, please tell me on the air.
I'm listening now.
Thank you.
Carter in Vegas.
Don't forget your friends in Las Vegas.
Well, I would never do that.
Las Vegas spawned me.
I'm going to guess if it's 9 a.m. East Coast time that it would be on the air at 6 o'clock in the morning here.
Now, everybody needs to call C-SPAN today.
If they're sitting on the fence, today would be the day of decision.
So you need to call C-SPAN and ask them to carry that National Press Conference, National Press Club Press Conference of Richard Hoaglands, and then we can all sit back and see what happens.
Well, it has a picture that was taken by an astronomer who was using 35 millimeter motion picture film, and he saw what appears to be a white cross on the Terminator somewhere near Fra Moral.
And I thought that, since this was supposedly a mountain ridge, but no one can understand geophysically how they could be perpendicular lines.
Right.
This was published in Sky and Telescope, June of 1958.
The photo was taken in 56.
Right.
And that was the official explanation for this.
But I thought that was interesting because it's the same region that was involved with Richard Hoagland's issue.
My mom is on Long Island, and she's getting about fed up with the snow.
I mean, it just keeps coming.
Ridiculous.
As a breeder art with 13 cats in the house, that will never happen to me.
I can tell you on good authority, even assuming all neutered, number three is definitely going to change the socio-political dynamics of your feline family.
In physics, it could be said, you have reached critical mass.
Yeah, I bet that's exactly right.
Critical mass, I'm sure.
It will be fun to watch, though.
And we've been talking about that because there is a definite pecking order.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand how the pecking order that we have right now is the way it is.
I have Abby.
Abby is a good 17 pounds.
I mean, we're talking major cat here.
We're talking lap shredder.
Abby can, oh, Abby is a very large cantankerous cat.
Cantankerous since the appearance of this little bitty thing we've got called Shadow.
Shadow is or was a female, but she is incredibly smart, and she absolutely pushes Abby around.
It's embarrassing.
It's like watching the male-bashing TV commercials, you know.
I don't understand how she can push him around, why he puts up with it.
I mean, Abby could sit on her and crush her, and yet she's able to push him around all over the house.
It is embarrassing for the maleness of my cat.
Twisted around her little paw, so to speak.
And she's so small.
I mean, just how can that be?
And yet there is that pecking order, and it really ticks off Abby.
I mean, he doesn't like it.
And so it puts him in a foul mood when she's around.
He's in a foul mood.
And now there is going to be a third cat.
And I have no idea what that is going to do to the little world of there's a definite, absolute, obvious pecking order.
And bringing a third in is going to scramble the whole thing, and who knows what's going to happen.
you know i i i'm afraid of what's going to happen when this captain out see this can't be laid low for a little while because it has been modified So when it gets home, it's not going to be feeling at the top of its game.
But after it begins to regain its health, its wildness is no doubt going to come out.
And how it's going to interact with these two very domesticated fighting furballs that I've got now, we'll see.
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Well, mine were feral and quickly domesticated, but they're very smart.
See, what we did is we put the trap down, this wonderful trap we got from L.A., and we dribbled some science diet up toward the trap, leading the cat, you know, bite by bite, toward the trap.
And the cat ate every single one of the science diet pellets up to the trap and stopped there.
And there was a full bowl of science diet inside the trap, and that's the way it went for a couple of days.
Finally, in the middle of the night at about three in the morning, snap goes the trap, and there's the orange little furball.
Nevada is the fastest-growing state in the Union, and there was just a newspaper article indicating Perup, Nevada, where I live, is the fastest-growing town in Nevada.
Do you realize that makes us the fastest-growing town in the whole country?
Yikes!
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You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from March 19, 1996.
Your Networks presents Art Bell, somewhere in time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from the 19th of March, 1996.
Dear Art, if Mr. Eaton, he's the CEO who spoke out of Chrysler, wants better public relations, perhaps some of the CEOs would be better off not taking their million-dollar bonuses while they lay off workers or move their plants for cheap labor.
I certainly do not begrudge anyone being rich.
However, if we really worship the bottom line only, this country will never be the same.
I think this is hogwash.
I don't think the Bible is challenged if we find out there have been other civilizations before.
The Bible does not say the creation story applies to our present-day civilization.
That has just been our egotistical assumption.
Well, I agree perhaps with the second, although I'm now I don't really.
And the first I definitely disagree with.
Look, corporate America definitely has a PR problem.
But what people don't seem to understand is when these companies lay people off, it's because they are becoming leaner, meaner, readjusting, playing in the market the way you've got to play to win.
And when the bottom line is good for corporations, ultimately it will mean jobs.
American jobs.
So I know that it's hard to see, and it's a very easy populist shot to take to criticize corporate America.
As a matter of fact, I really got to dig out what Eaton said because I thought it was right on.
I really did think it was right on.
And I'm never going to be able to dig it out unless I've got more time because by now I've got everything scattered six ways from Sunday.
Well uh, it might be based on maintaining the present paradigm, the present um, understanding and teaching of creation and uh, it may be protecting uh, people who you know.
in other words if there was another civilization or even many that have come before and if those structures on mars in the moon came from here which is entirely possible since there since we happen to be closest then that's going to challenge a lot of conventional thought and uh... religion and archaeology and uh... where just about every science there is is
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but shouldn't that be the way it is, though.
I mean if, if we're living in a lie and an illusion.
Well, all right, let me, let me give you a little bit better right.
Let me give you a good parallel, sir.
Okay, there was a day when everybody thought the earth was flat right, and scientists of every stripe Absolutely ridiculed anybody who would say anything otherwise.
And I'm not saying, look, I have no way of knowing about the structures on the moon.
I've heard everything from glass structures that Richard talks about and says he has photos of to old abandoned earth-moving equipment on the moon, that sort of thing.
The tetrahedral physics that would seem to prove the structures on Mars are indeed not natural occurrences at all.
Dare I say man-made?
At least some sort of intelligence created them.
So all of this would challenge everything we know.
And it's not accepted easily.
It's like back in the days of the flat earth.
Look, there were careers, there were textbooks, the teaching was that the earth was flat, and anybody who would say otherwise was absolutely ridiculed.
Well, I certainly am familiar with the image of Noah's Ark up on Ararat, and it is astounding.
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It gives a lot of scientific evidence of a civilization before the actual flood.
Right.
And about how, and it proved the story of the flood or gave evidence about how in over 98% of known civilizations right now, there's some kind of story of a great flood that wiped out everything.
But before that, it's talking about how the entire world, the entire Earth, was completely different, the atmosphere and the environment.
And how the atmosphere had like double or triple oxygen content, and the atmospheric pressure was like two times what it is now, and people were actually able, human beings were actually able to live a thousand years.
I mean, there's all kinds of scientific evidence showing how they found some kind of metal deep down in the earth where this time period could have been.
After watching the mysterious origins of mankind, talking with a lot of people, including Hoagland, including a lot of very reputable people, that there have been those who have been before us.
Well, what you might do is put the select tenant down next to the Bible and tune up above 1600 on the dial.
That's where the new frequencies are.
Or, no, now maybe you'd want to thank you, Leonard, tune down below 550, now that I think about it.
That would be the older frequencies.
And I suppose that the if God were broadcasting, I wonder what frequency he'd be on.
Yes, well, I'll tell you, Leonard has a talent.
He really does.
To go from the select antenna and its ability to pick up, for example, all the way from New York, that's pretty good, incidentally, in the Dakotas, to get that to the Bible is quite a reach.
But I mean, this lady wrote me a letter and called me a monster.
A horrible monster for putting peanut butter and jelly on a cat and throwing it up in the air.
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But try this.
If you really want an explosion, what do you think would happen if you took two cats and like duct taped them together back to back and then dropped them?
It's pretty awful, but when you think about it, it is intriguing.
And as I said before, you just picked up, you probably didn't hear it.
I've concluded that if the cats were roughly the same weight, that whatever cat gravitational thing causes them to land on their feet, they'd both land on their side and they'd both get hurt.
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Well, didn't Galileo or Newton prove that by dropping two weights of different weights off the Leaning Tower pizza or something?
And there are a lot of people like that, Christians.
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Right.
And that's probably due just to a lack of sophistication on some people's part, because there's some good archaeology going on right now where they're discovering things like electromagnetic transmitters and stuff that are thousands of years old, you know, that are dating back to a priest-flood civilization.
So it's possible, like if you study the Tower of Babel, I mean, building a tower to the heavens, maybe that was a rocket launcher.
And I do that from having talked to a lot of people like that man, and I just know I'm right.
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Right.
Well, I believe that too.
I know a lot of people in my circles would be very confounded, and they would dismiss it as a hoax because of, like you said, the world, the paradigm shift that would take place, like when going from a flat world to a round world, or from the Earth being the center of the universe to it revolving around a sun.
And I know the angle from which Richard Hoagland, the scientist, comes.
And for Richard and for those that he speaks with and associates with, they are seekers.
They are people not afraid to look past the common belief.
And so they naturally think that everybody else is pretty much like them, and they think that society has evolved.
Well, it has.
And there are a lot of people willing to look beyond now, but they are still the minority, not the majority.
And so if something comes along, I'm telling you right now, there's going to be a lot of very, very, very upset people if we suddenly prove they exist.
There's going to be a lot of upset people.
If they prove that there have been prior civilizations and we are not the first and probably will not be the last, then it's going to upset a lot of people.
And I believe the increasing evidence is pointing in that direction.
So I just guess I sort of agree with the conclusion reached in that New York Times, reported by the New York Times, that society would be at peril if this information gets out.
And how he's been selling a lot of, he's got a lot of connections with high-tech companies and has basically been giving the Chinese anything they want.
And it's totally scandalous.
It's just, it's, every time I think the Clinton administration can't get any worse, it gets worse.
And I don't think, I honestly don't think that Christianity can withstand this because Christianity is based on a single-level, three-dimensional, linear scenario, and also a very limited and constricted view of history that serves its, you know, its ends.
They tell me that the gal at ATT has been slaving over a hot keyboard, and she now has the east of the Rockies line working all the way from Canada to Puerto Rico, east of the Rockies, or a certain state.
So if you are east of the Rockies, actually, let me read this.
If you are east of, let me see here.
If you are east of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, then I would like you to try my east line.
I don't know if we can really call it east of the Rockies anymore.
See, that's the problem.
But if you're east of those areas, try calling 1-800-825-5033.
1-800-825-5033.
If you get a sorry, you can't connect from this area to that area.
You can't get from there to here, whatever it is they say.
Then send me a fax so that I know it and I can get it straightened out.
Now, if you get a busy signal or you get a ring, that's good.
And that means it's okay.
Only if you get a message saying you cannot dial this number should you then fax me.
All right?
Are we straight?
If you're east of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, give it a try.
If you get that little recorded message saying you cannot dial, then send me a fax and tell me where you are, and we will get it straightened out for your area.
That number again, 1-800-825-5033.
Now, if you're in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, or New Mexico, and west, including Hawaii, and you get the message, also send me a fax.
That number would be 1-800-618-8255.
If you're west and you call 1-800-618-8255 and you can't get through, send me a fax and we'll straighten it out.
They're working on the international line that should be ready tomorrow, they tell me.
My wildcard line should be fixed by tomorrow.
All I can say is when you give the phone company instructions and turn them loose, stand back and look out because anything can happen.
But we're breaking new territory here, so anyway, Art, wouldn't it be ironic if God saved the world by revealing extraterrestrial life, which would in turn destroy religion?
So we'd no longer have anything to kill each other over, and we'd work together to save ourselves from the ETs.
Tom the bomb in Mesa, Arizona.
Sounds like something Reagan said once.
Or check this out.
The protective layer of stratospheric ozone over the Arctic and northern polar zone has thinned to an even lower record level, according to the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO.
The agency says, get this, measurements had shown an unprecedented 45% deficiency over an area covering northern Greenland, Scandinavia, and western Siberia.
WMO officials blame the extremely worrisome development on the continued use of chlorofluorocarbons, which cause a chemical reaction as they reach high altitudes, converting the ozone into other gases.
Now, I have no idea whether it's CFCs, but I do believe the measurements, and I have for some time believed these to be true.
The WMO has done very careful measurements with NASA, and they're showing a 45% deficiency.
That, folks, is serious.
And once again, if it all ends, do you think mankind will get his cleaning deposit back?
The alternate juror who wore the Starfleet uniform was Barbara Adams.
When queried by the media, she explained to the press she always wears her uniform for what she calls formal and social occasions.
Ms. Adams was summarily dismissed from the jury pool, not for wearing her uniform, but for talking to the press.
Live long and prosper, Bryn.
And then this, P.S. If two identical cats are tied together back to back and dropped from a moderate height, after the bottoms of their paws are smeared with butter, they will remain suspended in mid-air.
Oh, boy.
Don't try that, folks.
Art, my opinion is that Dole should offer Buchanan the running mate position, especially since Ross Perot is going to run.
Most of Perot's people are Buchanan people.
The things I see would benefit all would be that if Pat were to be the running mate, one, it would prevent a split vote between the three parties.
Two, it would once again reunite the Republican Party and kick in automatic damage control.
After all, you've got to expect a little hair pulling in a good political battle.
And another question of mine was, Besides the people like me who can't sleep and and the people who are working who can af can afford to call while they're working, who who else listens to your show?
But um, I'm glad you had the flowers on the wall, song, because I've never really listened to it before, and I find I've had it on the on the soundtrack for pulp fiction, and so I listened to it, and I really like the lyrics a lot.
I'm not much of a country western fan, but but that song, huh?
Yeah, in Dr. Begich's book, Angels Don't Play this Harp, and I think it's the second, when they go through Tesla's theories, they mentioned something about that car.
So you can see how that sort of like evenly spaced stars.
If you could just imagine that if the handle would continue and be maybe, I don't know, twice as long as it is, there's another very bright star that's as bright or brighter than the stars of the Big Dipper.
Right.
Arturus.
Right.
And for me, in Eugene, Oregon, it's nearly straight overhead.
But it's a little bit to the south where Arcturus is.
Well, I know, but if you can find Arcturus, Arcto Arcturus, point to it with your outstretched hand, then your thumb is sort of, your thumb is right over the comet.
Okay, and my quickening question kind of ties into what I was thinking about, and I heard y'all talking about it.
What if the Lord decided to give us a fair warning, but yet the way we've always read the Bible, what if he created all these other plants and they all had, you know, say different species from us?
What if he gave them the same chance to straighten up their act like he's trying to do for us?
What if they didn't do the same thing?
And that's why All the planets, you know, the way that they are now, maybe he's giving us a fair warning the same thing could happen to us.
Well, I mean, what if some Plutonians, we'll call them Plutonians, have really screwed up.
I mean, their whole ionosphere is gone.
Their whole atmosphere is gone.
They're nothing now but an iceball.
But once they were a lush green planet like us, except they screwed up.
And now God is basically saying, all right, who did this?
Nobody's answering.
Do you see where I'm going here?
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Now for my quick question.
Yes.
Okay.
I've been watching a lot of the My Seisma Faxes and been reading the paper and then watching the news.
And I'm noticing, like, you know, with KTLA and all the other stations, the only one really is keeping up with it and you.
And I appreciate you for it because it just seems like everybody else is just putting their fingers to the air saying, well, you know, all this is the same.
You know, it's been going on for years, but it's setting up for something big.
But the number of earthquakes, the number of volcanoes, the number of comets, the weather changes, the ozone depletion, all the rest of it, I could really go on and on.
The social changes, the economic quickening, I could put together a list.