Art Bell’s January 1, 1997 Coast to Coast AM open lines dive into 1996’s record Pacific Northwest floods (Portland hit 64 inches), federal marijuana crackdowns despite Arizona/California legalization, and polygamy debates—callers cite biblical precedents, Utah’s 1800s ban, and the First Amendment while Bell dismisses its practicality. A caller’s missing Gulf War records, Iceland’s volcanic flooding, and a mysterious radio countdown (940 AM) fuel conspiracy theories, from alien signals to government data hoarding, before Bell humorously shuts down speculation as "just a stunt." The episode blends apocalyptic musings with legal and cultural skepticism, leaving listeners questioning systemic contradictions and the limits of free speech. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert in the great American Southwest, where it is basically dry.
I bid you all good evening, good morning, as the case may be across all these many time zones stretching from the Hawaiian and Peachton Island chains eastward across this great land to the Caribbean and the U.S. Virgin Islands of Puerto Rico in South America.
Worldwide on the internet, this is Coast Coast AM.
top of the morning everybody all night radio at its best Great to be here.
I'm Mark Bell.
Not a lot to talk about, a lot of news, and so we're going to have open lines is what we're going to do tonight.
It is the last hour of the first day of the new year on the West Coast.
It's always nice, and I like to see the holidays come.
I like Christmas.
It is my favorite.
But I'm always glad to see it go, too.
I don't know about you, but I'm always glad to see it go and to kind of get back to normal.
Frankly, a lot of people, between actually a time prior to Christmas and right now, they don't do anything.
Commerce, with the exception of the retail business, stops.
People slow down.
They stop doing things as they normally do.
And that's fine, but I'm always glad when it's over.
I don't know about you.
Trouble, as usual, in the Middle East.
Hebron is supposed to be turned over to the Palestinians, but an Israeli soldier, not wild and warm and fuzzy about that idea, wanting to spoil the peace process, opened fire on a group of Palestinians at a market, wounded six, one critically.
It is, of course, a case of two fundamentalist religious groups claiming the same land.
Same old story.
It's been going on since long before we walked upon the earth.
In Oregon, Washington, and California, the heavens have opened and they haven't stopped.
Some coastal areas indeed got winds of 100 miles an hour.
The rain seems never ending.
Rivers are still rising.
Many of them will peak during my program tonight.
Mudslides, sinkholes, you name it, people are sandbagging.
It is a mess.
From Scott, hi art.
Happy New Year.
Two days ago, when one of your callers said the rain and the weather in the Pacific Northwest was nothing unusual, I wanted to reach through the radio and shake them silly.
I've lived in Oregon all my 38 years, and I tell you, this is not normal.
In a normal year, Portland will get about 37 inches of rain.
In 1996, we got about 64 inches of rain.
The snowpack is double what it ought to be, and we are again faced with severe flooding.
I remember a Ray Bradbury book about humans that settled on another planet.
The weather was always the same.
Constant rain.
It never stopped.
After a few years, the space colonists began to go insane due to the incessant rain.
Some even committed suicide.
How did they do it?
They laid down, tipped their heads back, and let the rain drown them.
It's not that bad here, yet.
Scott.
We might talk a little bit about marijuana.
Dear Mr. Bell, I just read that the Clinton administration is planning to sanction doctors who prescribe marijuana for medical use, medicinal use.
I was shocked to read it.
By the way, Art, I'm not a militia kind type.
I just believe in states' rights.
It's an outrage.
Did not the citizens of California and Arizona speak when they voted to allow the use of marijuana?
How dare the federal government step in and attempt to negate what the citizens of these states have voted to allow?
Art, I would look forward to hearing your opinion on this topic during tonight's show.
That's Jeff.
I completely agree, Jeff, on two scores.
One, with regard to states' rights.
People of Arizona and California did speak.
The federal government is trying to rationalize they didn't know what they were saying.
They didn't know what they were thinking.
And they could not possibly have known what They were voting for that's one angle.
So, the feds are going to move in and they are going to do what the state authorities apparently are not going to do, and that is enforce the marijuana laws strictly, and not just sanction but take away the licenses of any doctor who would dare prescribe marijuana.
But that's just one angle.
The other is it has long since been time that the U.S. reshape its attitude, you know, about marijuana in general and begin to separate it from the other hard drugs.
That has been my position for many years.
And it seems to me the federal government had an opportunity here to either do nothing or to give states an opportunity, one by one, to decide if it was time for a change.
But the federal government obviously is not going to do that, and they're taking the exact opposite tact.
Seven more hostages released in Lima, Peru.
The captives walked out of the besieged Japanese ambassador's residence with Red Cross reps.
The release leaves 74 in captivity.
Americans welcomed 1997 with parades, football games, but the gambling capital of Las Vegas brought in the new year with a bang, literally not to be outdone by the street party, featuring about a half million in Times Square.
The celebration in the Nevada desert climaxed with the Hacienda Hotel being demolished in an explosion.
A dear art, first of all, let me say Happy New Year.
Since Madman Markham wants to be the very first to step through his gateway, the next time you talk to him, would you ask him for me if he has any problems with me going through second?
I figure if he goes to the future, the past, or another dimension, there'd be an excellent opportunity for me to spread the word.
That is from Pastor Bradley.
And it is just about time to have Madman back live for an update.
Those of you who had joined the show late last night finally got an opportunity to hear the Madman Markham story.
So with me saying this, obviously, we are live this night.
This is not a repeat.
And assuming that the floods don't get our network, which is in Medford and is under siege right now, we will continue to be live throughout the night tonight.
I think.
Hey, Art, I think I've got it figured out.
Regarding Hail Bop, Hail Mary and the possibility of an alien invasion, it's got to be Super Bowl Sunday when every man around the world is totally defenseless and watching football.
If my team is losing, well, I'll be in the right frame of mind to fight anyway, should it become necessary.
That's Bill in Waterlogged Portland.
And I've got a few other items here.
Oh, by the way, the great IRC war the other night was victorious.
And prior to my going off the air at about 3.15, the chat room was happily reclaimed by the hordes of soldiers who were sent to do it.
So we thank you.
I don't know, you get that many people good at hacking and doing what has to be done on a mission of mercy and righteousness, and inevitably they triumph and they did.
So my thanks to all who helped out.
Other than that, I thought we would do the dangerous thing that we do on this show most frequently, and that is leave it up to you.
Anything you want to talk about is fair game.
With respect to an update on Hailbop, expect it this coming Sunday with Whitley Streeber, my guest on Dreamland.
So we will no doubt broach that subject.
In the meantime, in a moment, open line.
And so, off to the land of post-holiday, unscreened, a very dangerous open lines.
We'll just punch it and do it, as usual.
And we'll see what's out there.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Hi there, Art.
This is Jeff from Fort Wayne.
Hi, Jeff.
I got something that I don't think I've ever heard you guys talk about before.
I'm kind of curious, and I've done a little checking up on it, but I can't seem to find the answer.
How is it that the men of the old biblical times, like Jacob and David and Stephen, how come they can have more than one wife, and today it's kind of like a no-no, you can't do that?
Why Is it why can they have like three, four wives and they don't ever say that it was wrong in the Bible?
I don't know.
It just kind of threw me for a loop when I, because I, you know.
I, I, frankly, have always wondered about preamble to the Constitution, where it talks about your happiness and stuff, pursuit of happiness, that sort of thing.
Wouldn't that seem to guarantee, I mean, what if two or three wives made you happy?
unidentified
Yeah, that's strange.
Because, you know, one of the Ten Commandments says, you know, thou shalt not commit adultery.
Well, isn't that adultery, having more than one wife?
So I'm not exactly sure what the answer to your question really is.
I mean, really, it was closer to the time of the, you know, the walking of Jesus on earth, and you would think the rules about wives, if it comes from God, would have been even more clearly defined then rather than now.
Yeah, yeah.
So, you know what?
I don't know the answer to your question.
unidentified
Well, you know, I didn't expect you to come up with an answer.
I was just kind of curious, but you've got a lot of listeners out there.
Maybe they can help me out here because, I mean, I like to think that I'm a religious person, but one of my friends asked me this question, and I didn't know what to tell him.
Why would it be the ancients had multiple wives and it was okay?
But now we can't.
I could understand a common sense explanation that one woman is clearly difficult enough and trying to balance two or three or four in one household at all.
None.
So I'm not exactly sure.
Not really sure what the answer to this is.
I suppose society, as represented by our government, might feel that I don't know.
In other words, when the other cats begin to gang up on the new cat, which they inevitably do, one by one, you walk to the old cats and you step on their tails.
And they get right in line, you know?
unidentified
Oh, no, that's so.
But no, it really, I mean, you know, my oldest cat is 14 years old, and I've got my youngest one is four months old, and everything in between.
And I've been through this a bunch, and they just feel, they feel left out.
Like, the new cat, you know, always gets a little more attention, it seems like.
And they feel very, they're jealous.
And if you just go ahead and reinforce that you still really care about the first cat, it will eventually maybe not be best buddies with the new one, but it will accept the fact that, oh, this cat's here, too.
And Abby will quit biting and scratching you, and maybe Ten's gray cat will quit.
i don't know i i appreciate the advice but i'm telling you right now he has Comet is really gentle.
Comet has long, sharp back claws.
But Comet intentionally does not use them.
Abby, on the other hand, who is now a middle-aged cat with long claws, knows darn well how to launch himself off your lap using full claw power and leaving an indentation identical to all of his claws digging in at once.
He knows exactly what he's doing, exactly what he's doing.
Wild Card line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hey, Mr. Bill, this is War Dancer out here in Portland, Oregon, surviving the flood.
I feel sorry for all the people who've lived here all their lives, and now all the dumb Californians decide to come up here and denude our soil and whatnot and change our ecology.
Well, the chondritic material, it'll be, well, if Hallie's comet left our meteor shower that we catch in August, the Perseus, I guess, what's Hailbop going to leave it?
Roads in all directions in northern Nevada are closed from mudslides, washed out bridges, or simply underwater.
So there you have it.
It's awful up there.
A lot of people are actually sandbagging.
And we may open a line for people in that area shortly and find out how it's going, how they're doing, whether you're holding up, whether you think it's going to get worse before it gets better, or whether this is going to be the night of terror tonight.
A lot of the rivers, I believe, are going to crest during the time we are on the air this night.
unidentified
A lot of rivers, I believe, are going to be a little bit more.
And I, gosh, I almost forgot what I wanted to talk to you about.
First thing I wanted to talk to you about was a guy on a short wave program.
I heard a couple weeks ago, or a couple nights ago, said that there is a part of the Bible that he believes refers to Hailpop that will be bringing a level of higher consciousness to all people on this planet.
And his name is Stuart Best, and I think he'd be a real good guest to have on your show.
I've been listening to your show for a while now, and I got this little scenario I thought would be okay.
I've heard, you know, through all the television shows that have been on in the last few years, all the science fiction stuff that's been on, and I'm kind of into that kind of stuff.
But how about this?
How about this scenario?
How about Gene Roddenberry, for instance, and a lot of other writers and stuff that are out there?
Could it possibly be that these people were kind of like preempting us a little bit for actually what is going to happen in this world?
You mean science fiction writers preparing us for what is coming?
unidentified
Yeah, to the extent of where, you know, letting us know, you know, the awakening, so to speak, that this really can happen and it is happening.
I mean, I firmly believe we've already been visited.
And, I mean, good grief, we're not the only planet out there that has life on it, you know.
And I just thought all these people that are writing all these great shows that are out there should be like letting the public know in their own way of what really is going to happen someday here.
I mean, I get a feeling with all the stuff that's happening in the world and everything that some of this stuff is really true.
And I decided to lay it on the public out there and just think about it, you know, the Area 51 and all the kind of stuff, you know, that...
If I had an alien armada of ships, like in Independence Day, capable of destroying entire cities, and I studied our planet for a while and watched our behavior, day to day, I'd put the mother saucers over the cities and I'd blow them to smithereens.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yes.
Well, now that would be like they would actually be studying us for a while.
If, let's say, the companion, they call it.
I mean, what kind of a conclusion do you think they would come to?
Either total domination or they want our planet for some reason.
Well, I kind of like the way it was in Independence Day, thank you.
They didn't have any real bargaining they wanted to do.
The aliens didn't want to bargain with us.
They didn't even really want to enslave us.
They had no other motivation of a negotiation with us.
They simply wanted us to die.
And I thought that was the coolest part of the movie.
Had that movie been very realistic, we would have died.
They would have won.
And if I had written the script for that movie, I would not have departed into that silliness at Area 51 with the president and all the rest of it and the flying at the saucers.
You know, I suppose they had to do that, right?
So that we are victorious.
But in reality, any technology that far advanced would have continued doing exactly what they were doing.
Blowing things to smithereens.
I think that's probably the way I would have written that movie.
But then again, there has made hundreds of millions of dollars, and so who can complain?
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello, Art Bell.
Hello.
Now, I hear you talking about Independence Day, and I've probably missed it, but you have seen Mars Attack or just heard of it?
Yes, I'm right by the Reading Ripple, and this is the first time I've ever got through to you, and I had to call you and tell you why you guys can't have more than one wife.
I'm Art Bell, and we're doing anything you want to do all night long.
Open Law and Talk Radio.
Hey, Art, in addition to federal action taken to nullify the effect of medical marijuana initiatives, over the weekend Clinton also proposed all teenagers seeking their first driver's license have got to pass a drug test in order to qualify for it.
Clinton has instructed his minions to find a way to force this new policy on the 50 states.
And of course, they have a way to do that.
You just hold up highway funds.
That's the usual trick.
East of the Rockies with asteroid news, you're back on the air now.
Let's get this straight.
You said CBS, what, radio?
unidentified
Yeah, CBS radio.
We took a break.
Of course, we take a break every top of the hour, and this was at the midnight hour central time.
Westbound Interstate 80 near the California-Nevada border.
Westbound Sacramento-bound I-80 is totally closed.
One lane of the eastbound roadway is closed.
One eastbound lane remains open.
Caltrans officials at the site, one and a half miles east of the Nevada state line in Nevada, say mud rocks and trees are covering both westbound lanes.
Boy, it's getting bad.
For a distance of about a half mile.
There's also two feet of water on the roadway.
Caltrans workers are assisting the Nevada Department of Transportation.
The cleanup estimated will take five to seven hours to complete.
Estimated reopening for westbound I-80 is early tomorrow morning sometime.
And Joyce, faxing from I don't know where, somebody called earlier and said, why art can we only have one wife?
when even many of the religious icons of our past, closer to the time Christ walked on earth, had more than one wife?
So why is there a rule today saying we can only have one?
Joyce simply wrote, ask Ramona, why?
That's all right.
And this art on plural marriage, about a third of Earth's believers accept it.
Muslims, for example, as ordained of God, as did the patriarchs of the Old Testament, under the limitations of the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with the free exercise of religion, and the 14th Amendment prohibiting states likewise, the recent Freedom of Religious Act bigamy laws are void.
Well, you know, since this has been broached, I think that this person is probably right.
It is probably not constitutional to limit a person to one wife, or ladies, to, for that matter, one husband.
I'm trying to think of why it is legal or constitutional to do that, and I don't have a ready answer.
Didn't then for the caller and don't now.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
I'm Robert, listening to you on KOH in Fairfield, California.
Somebody, for example, arrested for bigamy could challenge it.
unidentified
Yeah, I would assume so.
I mean, it is a federal law.
It was used by Congress, like I said, to it was used as a ploy.
When the Mormon Church announced the and quit using the system of plural marriage, it was within a couple of years after that that they were allowed to stay to and allowed to continue on with their religion.
They were actually the reason why they were there, and you might have somebody from Missouri check on this, but I believe up until 1976, it was legal to shoot Mormons on site in that state.
Remember I had mentioned a while back, I think it was before Christmas, that I was into lunar work and I had ordered the maps from the USGS on the moon.
I will review your materials, and you never know, you might be guest material.
if you were a terrorist what target would you go after Unfortunately, we are now in the era of terrorism, and we are going to be hit.
We have been hit, and we will be hit again.
The question is, what would you hit?
For maximum terror.
That's what you're trying to create when terrorism, by its very nature tries to scare people.
And there are many, many, many targets of opportunity in the U.S. New York City?
Washington, D.C. What manner of bomb would you use?
Well, short of a nuclear device.
Frankly, I would think, and I'm sorry to say, and I'm not giving anybody any ideas, but a biological thing would be much worse, much more effective in a crowded metropolitan area.
The reason for that is it was going back as far as the bankers.
What happened was there was a lot of people, a lot of men had a whole bunch of wives and everything else, and they were going out and they were buying their houses individually and everything else, and they could afford.
What happened was they went out and they sent their wife out, and their wife brought the money back and everything else, and they bought number one house.
They sent another wife out, and they had several different families and everything else, and all the houses were completely paid for.
Well, the bankers did not like that.
So the bankers put a stop to it, and they said you can only have one wife because they're not.
What I don't understand is how did multiple wives help pay off houses?
unidentified
Well, because, see, if I was married, if I had five wives, I could have five different families.
And each of the wives would go out there and purchase a house, and I could turn around and have each of the wives turn around and pay for this in cash.
I have an answer for you about how the polygamy law can be constitutional.
Well, the Supreme Court interprets these issues, and suppose that you and I belong to a religion, and this religion insisted that we consume pounds of cocaine.
We'd say, oh, it's our religious right to consume all of this cocaine.
The Supreme Court applies a rule called the Specific Intent Rule.
They look at a law and they say, is the specific intent of this law to abridge your religious freedom?
In the case, there was a case in Florida called the Smith case.
A county specifically made a law that you could not murder chickens as part of these religious ceremonies.
the supreme court said that law is unconstitutional because the specific intent of the law was to prohibit this religious behavior.
But in other laws, say the law against drugs in general, that that law is not unconstitutional with respect to any of the laws.
Let's just remove the entire religious argument from this for a second and say that a man wants to have two wives.
For him, that's happiness.
That's what he wants.
Why, under the general tenets of freedom covered by many portions of the Bill of Rights, doesn't he have the right or shouldn't he have the right to have several wives?
unidentified
Oh, I don't know the answer, honestly, on that count.
they slowly deteriorate and they go that way there's lots of everything glory and you know if that's his thing in his way and it's really not suicide because he thinks he may go somewhere else then You're in the strength and brilliance and good thinking here.
unidentified
Is there any way that this man could be put in school and maybe further educated?
He said he had gone two years, I think, to some college.
Could we all get together and get this man an education and maybe he could actually do something with this fact that he likes to do?
Nevada legalized ladies being topless in society since they legalized gambling and topless bars and brothels.
Yeah.
And another thing is...
Yeah, and another thing is why don't cement masons and bricklayers contribute to the floods at the Chucky River and build portable walls to replace the sacks being used?
Probably no one but me has noticed this, but I've noticed in the last two years all the new car models that are coming out, not all of them, but a goodly portion of them, have headlights very similar to the shape of the eyes of the Greys.
Yeah, if it really blew, there's no question about it.
It could really cause some trouble, sure.
I'm rather intrigued at the prospect of a new Hawaiian island with the price of real estate in Hawaii the way it is.
We ought to be down there with some sort of a nuclear charge trying to encourage that thing along.
I mean, consider the worth of a new Hawaiian island.
By the way, if there is a new Hawaiian island, is it automatically part of Hawaii?
Or would it be up for grabs?
I wonder if anybody's thought about that.
In other words, when this thing breaks water, what if some other country comes along and slams a flag down?
Who's to say it automatically belongs to Hawaii and is part of the U.S.?
Who's to say?
As far as I know, the only islands are those we already know about that constitute Hawaii, which in fact is a state of this U.S. of this United States.
What happens is a government juggernaut gets going in a certain direction and they don't know how to turn around.
With regard to the drug war, they don't know how to change what they've already said.
They can't say marijuana is a dangerous, terrible drug on the one hand, and show frying pan with your brain on drugs and all the rest of it, and claim for this amount of time how awful it is, and then go in any other direction without appearing to be hypocritical.
So anything that would pop along, like Arizona and California's voter initiatives, well, they would have to claim that people were just crazy.
Didn't know what they were doing.
Asleep at the Switch, the caller said.
Arrogant BS.
Maybe they were asleep at the Switch when they elected the people that are back there issuing this crap.
Well, we are losing, but I don't fully agree with that.
In other words, I draw a line between marijuana and what comes beyond it.
And I think the most intelligent thing we could do right now, since we're not going to get a change elsewhere, is to begin to tell the truth about marijuana and begin to have the law reflect the relative danger of marijuana.
unidentified
Well, that's true.
There is a certain danger to it, but it is a lot less dangerous than a lot of the other drugs out there.
My prediction is that what with all the commercialization and the privatization of the Internet, sometime in 1997, it's just going to collapse under its own weight.
I predict the government wants control of the internet, and the way they will try and get it The way they're going to try to get it is by allowing the release of some sort of classified data that will appear on the internet.
There will then be a national security reason to gain control over and regulate the internet.
Anybody out there want to bet that's how it comes down?
That is my prediction for 1997.
unidentified
We'll be right back.
Premier Radio Networks presents Art Bells somewhere in time.
Tonight's program originally aired January 1st, 1997.
It is a little scary to consider that all it would take to really end the world would be one man with enough money, say derived from oil, and the scientific resources to develop something that would kill massively when released.
You know we have it.
I'm sure the Russians have it, the Chinese may have it, and perhaps Saddam has it.
I think what he was talking about was oval gyros that throw the weight kind of like, you know, when you see a description in a science program of how a bird flies, it shows the wings go in an oval direction.
Okay, um, uh, the question I want to ask you, is there a radio station in my area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, that carries the whole program instead of like St. Paul goes to 5.30 in the morning, and that's all.
You know, that's by satellite and direct satellite distribution and all that sort of thing.
It's a more effective way of doing what we want to do.
unidentified
Okay.
Now, the third question is, when are you going to have a station come to carry, will there be a local station in the future in Winnipeg, Manitoba to carry your entire program?
Have you never seen somebody, a receiver, running down, a receiver jumping into the air when there are two defenders about to crash into him and turn him into a human sandwich?
And so we dug it up and put it on the web page so everybody could see it.
unidentified
And we were able to get it off your web page, but we did a little further research on it, tried to get a hold of some of the universities that teach law.
The photographers taking real good photos have shown that there's an O and an N before the C or the K. In other words, Onkolonut, which is an ancient Finno-Uralic Ugric word, can be interpreted as channeling, canyon, theonk.
Very interesting.
There's a lot more to be found.
Yeah, huh, right.
And if these so-called carved-in-wood maps actually come from very ancient times, you know that our numbering system was first found in caves in the Indus Valley in India, about 600 before Christ.
However, for some reason or other, at least one of these has carved the number 323.
I've just never been able to get a hold of you and just kind of wanted to get a hold of you and tell you that to kind of listen to you here, and we get you out of the Twin Cities, actually.
well the country don't need a civil war right now You know, I thought this to be one of the more interesting questions ever posed.
Let's say that Arizona or California or any other state decided to secede and papers were served on our President Clinton.
And you're the advisor.
You go to the President.
Mr. President, I'm afraid this is serious.
Arizona is very angry.
Their legislature has just passed a measure to secede.
Mr. President, what are your orders?
Now, would President Clinton order the federal troops in, Janet Reno stormtroopers, to squash the Arizona legislature and any resistance in Arizona?
Or would the president, trying to avoid conflict, simply do nothing and allow it to occur?
unidentified
Well, I was thinking what they ought to do, if the vote is no confidence, the state of Arizona should, like, enact a law, I guess, to say that any law enforcement authority at the federal level, that they would not recognize that individual's authority to arrest or detain citizens of Arizona.
And if they did, then they would be committing a crime in the state of Arizona and be subject to arrest themselves to essentially take the teeth out of the feds so they can't fight the people of Arizona anymore.
Well, but you're dealing with people, sir, who make their own law.
It really would be interesting to see what would occur.
All right, I have entered now a different chat room.
I have gone on to my webpage.
I have a webpage.
It's www.artbell.com.
And I'm in a new chat room.
We have chat rooms on the webpage.
And I am in the topical discussion chat room.
So if any of you would like to join in, get on the internet, get to the Art Bell webpage, www.artbell.com, scroll down until you get to the public chat rooms, and come on into the topical chat room.
For I am in there now.
And we'll sort of, we spent a little time in the AOL chat room this morning, an hour, hour and a half.
Now I'm in this topical chat room, and I have never before entered, well, one time before, and they didn't believe it was me.
They didn't think it was me.
So I finally said, okay, and I left.
It was embarrassing.
My own chat room, they wouldn't believe it was me.
One, we're going to test and find out how many people can enter one chat room before a server explodes.
And here's how you do it.
I'm right now in my own chat room.
We have one on the webpage, actually a couple.
So if you have the ability to get in, come on in.
Usually people with Windows 95 and Netscape can get in.
I don't know about others.
I think Mac users are automatically barred.
Now, I'll tell you, you just come to my webpage.
My webpage at www.artbell.com.
www.artbell.com.
Scroll down until you see something that says public chat rooms.
And we're in the topical chat room right now.
And we want to see how many people we can squeeze in there, which is like the old days when they try to see how many people you can get into a Volkswagen.
Remember that?
So come on up and join us.
If you have an extra moment, you're on the web.
Come on by and join us.
www.artbell.com.
One other thing that we're doing is we are looking for new artwork.
This is your chance.
I know there's a lot of computer graphics people out there who are very, very, very good with computer graphics.
So we are going to have a contest.
We are going to create a new Art Bell logo for the web page, a new logo.
And we need somebody out there who's very good with computer graphics.
And I know this program is loaded with people who are good at it.
Similar to, but different than the computer graphics we have been running.
So if you're good at computer graphics and you would like to have your submission up on my webpage, send your submission to webmaster at artbell.com.
That would be Keith, of course.
Keith Roland of the infamous no smoking Mesa, Arizona, where he is Web Honcho.
But don't send it to Web Honcho.
Send it to Webmaster at artbell.com.
If you can create a good graphic, something that you think would be representative of the program and great to have on the webpage, send it off to webmaster at artbell.com.
Well, I figured out that there's no way that it can be unconstitutional because then they would have to say, well, this is a good religion or a bad religion.
There's no way they can do that because there's 600 and some Protestant religions in the United States alone.
So if they were to say, well, this is a good one, then that means the other 599 are bad, and they're not going to put up with that.
Yeah, it probably put a lot of hookers out of business, or certainly slow things down.
And the main reason is the other 599 Protestant religions could not compete because if they could send missionaries out and say, hey guy, you ever have these times, you know, when your wife has a headache and you'd rather she didn't?
Well, just think, if you had five wives, what are the probabilities of all of them having a headache at the same time?
Now, this might sound kind of like it would have been an episode of some television show, but I was outside of his room a couple nights before he passed on.
And that's when I started to get involved with the fact that the government, both the U.S. government and the Russian government, were using both natural clairvoyants and technical remote viewers.
Now, I don't know exactly where you stand on that.
I know Scallion and a lot of other people have said 94, 95, and they've caused a lot of, not intentionally, of course, but they've caused a lot of skepticism because things have not happened.
But I have always seen 97.
97 and 98 are the two years that is going to really demolish California.
I mean, imagine the fifth or the tenth or the twentieth anniversary where you would give one wife a one-carat diamond ring.
Now, there are several ways that one could proceed with that thought.
That is, the one wife, of course, would be very happy.
The other wives would want your blood.
So, you would either have to give one carat diamond rings to all of them, no matter whether one was in reality a better wife than the other wife, just so that you wouldn't get poisoned.
So, one carat diamond rings would have to go to all of them, or you would give none of them a diamond ring on an anniversary, in which case all of them would try to poison you.
Uh, Once again, we are going to have a contest of sorts.
We are going to create a new graphic for the Art Bell webpage.
And that's the master graphic that goes up at the top of every page.
So, I know there's a lot of good graphic artists, computer graphic artists in Los Angeles and elsewhere listening.
Here's your chance.
If you would like to create it and send it off to Webmaster at artbell.com.
The question is whether Hillary would be left swinging, twisting slowly in the wind, or whether he would come rushing to her aid with a pardon, ticking off everybody in the country.
Well, I was a little part of the big battle, but I really wasn't the one that got the channel back.
That was a different user.
But I just want to mention to you that you kind of antagonized them when you started talking about us getting it back, and they're going to start trying it again pretty soon.
And there was the guy who called earlier about the dreams that the dream interpretation that you took kind of as a roundabout way.
I just wanted to say, well, if he's listening or anyone else, that about three or four times a year, I tend to have dreams, and about three months later, they become reality, like a deja vu.
And she was supposed to come in July 4th, and I was kind of paranoid about it.
And so I was teasing her.
I says, well, yeah, I've been listening to this guy named Mark Bell, and he had this guy predict a big earthquake here.
She got real scared.
She didn't want to fly up.
So I kind of had to tone it down a little bit and tell her, well, you know, if I recall correctly, though, that guy did predict about 95% accuracy that this was going to happen in the first week of July.
But we did have a seismologist on, and I'm trying to remember his name right now.
I should remember it.
But I don't recall that he made that prediction.
Now, I'm not a seismologist.
But I would be, if I were, if I were in the prediction business, I would predict there would be an earthquake soon in Northern California somewhere, where all the rain has come down, even Oregon, Washington, somewhere.
I think that a great deal of rain contributes to geologic instability.
It's just a theory.
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
Art, three quick points, if I may.
With more ultraviolet and X-rays reaching the upper atmosphere due to the thinning ozone layer.
I think we can expect more meteorological commotions as the ocean water heats up and the air rises and more cold air comes in, bringing rain and snow as we're getting here in the winter.
But the approach of not only rogue comets and asteroids, of which it's estimated there are over 30 trillion throughout the Milky Way resulting from the birth and death of stars, and also the displacement of stars due to solar collisions, which could send a rogue star system our way, impacting the ORT cloud as well, and displacing the jet stream.
And if the rogue system has an ORT cloud with up to 1,000 comets could enter the solar system, according to the Astronomy Magazine of this month.
God, what a great title for a book, Night of a Thousand Comets.
unidentified
We have been sending letters for over 10 years to media personnel and government officials, copies of which I'd be happy to send to you to post on your webpage concerning such an eventuality.
Because it's not enough to depend upon a government that's able to act only after the fact with emergency funds.
So I guarantee you, if 1,000 comets hit the Earth, FEMA couldn't help at all.
unidentified
Some of the atmospheric anomalies of recent times may be due to an approaching rogue system, that is peripherals of an approaching rogue system, which could be such as the fireballs that we're seeing in increasing numbers.
And the approach of a higher order could also be in evidence.
So I think we need to be willing to make changes.
We need to listen, to broaden our concepts, to adopt new priorities, because far more than emergency funds are going to be required to provide the needed safeguards.
And this may be the very reason why we are seeing so many quote-unquote sightings of persons that are able and capable of assisting us through this period of trauma, which we are definitely going to go through.
But I predict that there's not going to be any major earthquakes in California.
I mean, back in 92, we had a possible major ground displacement, a possible crack in the continental shelf.
And I don't think that there's much more that, you know, that can be done.
But I would just recommend, I think that Mother Nature is in charge, and there's not a lot you can do about it.
And I've got a lot more trust in natural phenomenon such as rainbows.
I've got a lot more faith in rainbows than I do in conjectures, because I know a lot of people at Caltech, and they were packing their bags and getting all their survival gear, and oh, we're going to have a whole bunch of stuff.
And I just think that I have a lot more faith in rainbows and Mother Nature and God, and maybe the guy might have something, but it's a really bad way to start out the new year.
And, you know, and I think this, I don't know if we got hit by a jackhammer or what, but, you know, it's kind of I just have a lot of faith in rainbows because, I mean, all right, sir, I've done it.
The federal government is making a big, big mistake with their reaction to this California-Arizona vote.
Really a big mistake.
And I'm really sorry to see it.
And their comments are, you know, this business about the voters being asleep at the Switch.
Very unfortunate.
unidentified
That would, were I one of those voters, I think I would be on the telephone, on the fax machine, letting those people know exactly how I felt about it.
But, you know, I'm very concerned about the way things are going, and I'm not at all, I won't be at all surprised if something does happen within the next year or so.
You know, I foresee that with Janet Reno's attack on the Fourth Amendment in front of the Supreme Court and a few of the other things that are going on.
We still live in a country, luckily, where redress is possible within the system.
Even though the system is now perverted and fouled up, and I realize the arrogance of power in Washington, but we still live in a system where you can change it within, where you don't have to resort to violent means to get your way.