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	Welcome to Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
	Tonight, featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 1st, 1997.
	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 Tahitian island chains.
	He swerved across this great land to the Caribbean and the U.S.
	Virgin Islands.
	Soon now, Puerto Rico, South into South America, North to the Pole, and worldwide on the Internet.
	This is Coast to Coast AM.
	Top of the morning, everybody.
	All Night Radio at its best.
	Great to be here.
	I'm Art Bell.
	Not a lot to talk about.
	There's not a lot of news.
	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.
	Many of you have left the holiday sphere.
	And I must say, it is nice.
	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, Open 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 a hundred 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.
	that's got 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.
	The 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.
	Oh, it was great!
	It almost looked like Independence Day.
	And a slow sort of reaction And a crumbling.
	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 Marianne, the possibility of an alien invasion.
	It's gotta 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 Hale-Bopp, expect it this coming Sunday with Whitley Streber, 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.
	Hi there, Art.
	This is Jeff from Fort Wayne.
	Hi, Jeff.
	I've got something that I don't think I've ever heard you guys talk about before.
	Okay.
	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 stuff, how come they could 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 don't have the answer.
	I'd like to see if I could find that out, if you could throw that out there to your audience.
	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?
	Yeah, that's... that's strange, you know, because, you know, one of the Ten Commandments is, you know, thou shalt not commit adultery.
	Uh, well, isn't... isn't that adultery?
	Having more than one wife?
	But, uh... Well, no, if it's legal to have more than one wife, then obviously it is not adultery.
	However, if you had four wives, And you cheated on them?
	Think about that.
	This is true.
	Ha!
	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.
	Well, you know, I didn't expect you to come up with an answer.
	I was just kind of curious that you've got a lot of our 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.
	I didn't know what to tell him.
	I don't either.
	Let's see what the audience says.
	All right.
	Thanks a lot.
	You bet.
	Sure.
	We'll throw that one out.
	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, well that doesn't make any common sense 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.
	I don't know.
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi Art.
	Hi.
	This is Dana in Tennessee.
	Welcome.
	Friday night, your Ken called and was talking about her new cat.
	Oh yes, yes, yes.
	You know, that she got for Christmas and how she was having problems with the other cats.
	You know, behavior towards the new one.
	And asked for advice, and I thought maybe I'd have some for her.
	I'm sure she probably listens every night, and the advice would help you with Abby, too.
	All right.
	You know, cats are very territorial, and you are part of their territory.
	Yeah.
	And so the thing, you know, the cats are, you know, the new cat has invaded the territory.
	You just need to spend a little extra time showing the cats you already had in the household That you really care about.
	If it's across the room, just sitting there, get up and walk over to the cat and pick it up and give it a hug.
	Something like that.
	It makes a difference.
	Now I've got 12.
	I like the tough love approach.
	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?
	Oh, no.
	My oldest cat is 14 years old, and my youngest one is 4 months old, and everything in between.
	And I've been through this a bunch, and they just feel left out.
	The new cat always gets a little more attention, it seems like.
	And 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 lifting you, but it will accept the fact that, well, this cat's here too, and Abby will quit biting and scratching you, and maybe Ken's gray cat will quit.
	It's Abby's attitude.
	Abby is never going to stop doing that.
	No?
	No.
	No, I appreciate the advice, but I'm telling you right now, Abby has, actually, so does Comet.
	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.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hey, Mr. Bill.
	This is Wardancer out here in Portland, Oregon, surviving the flood.
	How's it going?
	It's going out here.
	I feel sorry for all the people who've lived here all their lives.
	Now all the dumb Californians decided to come up here and denude our soil and whatnot and change our ecology.
	Uh-oh.
	So that's what it is.
	So you're blaming it on the Californians.
	The out-of-staters.
	Those who have bought houses, chopped down the trees that normally would have absorbed all of this.
	Exactly.
	Ecology 101.
	Very simple.
	And next year, what's going to happen when Hale-Bopp's Residue flies through?
	Hale-Bopp's Residue.
	Now, that's the first one I've heard about that.
	Hale-Bopp's Residue.
	Well, the chondritic material, it'll be Well, if Halley's Comet left our, uh, meteor shower that we catch in August, the Perseids, I guess, what tail block gonna leave us?
	If I knew, I wouldn't be able to say.
	Okay, well, maybe, uh, we'll get a good astronomer out there who knows the answer.
	You will, maybe.
	Hey, and, uh, keep it up, Bart, and everybody that calls behind me, stick to scary stuff.
	See you later, sir.
	Goodbye.
	All right.
	We're gonna pause here at the bottom of the hour.
	You know, I really don't know the answer to that question about wives.
	How come they could then, and we can't now?
	Anybody out there have any idea at all?
	Oh, you're right.
	I'm going to call the police.
	Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from January 1st, 1997.
	Once again, here I am, from our friends at KIDO in Boise, Idaho.
	Small stream flood warning continues in west central Idaho and eastern Oregon.
	The National Weather Service in Boise has extended a small stream warning through noon mountain time for west central Idaho and eastern Oregon.
	Small streams continue over their banks in many parts of West Central Idaho and Eastern Oregon due to continuing rains and melting snow.
	Several roads have been closed by water or by mud and rock slides in Idaho.
	State Highway 21 from Milepost 21 near Robie Creek to Milepost 34 near Morris Creek have been closed to all but emergency vehicles.
	Several hundred feet of US 95 were washed out About nine miles north of Council.
	In Eastern Oregon, Highway 86 was closed between Halfway and Oxbow.
	Rains will continue in these areas.
	Heavy at times, through the night and tomorrow morning.
	Do not attempt to cross flooded streams or roads.
	Persons living near small streams should monitor water levels and be prepared to move to higher ground.
	It's not good!
	Art Governor Miller is declaring an emergency in Carson City, Douglas, Story, and Waushaw Counties.
	The Truckee River is going to crest at 17 feet.
	The Carson River at 14.
	Both far beyond previous records.
	This is a 100-year flood.
	Been here a long time now, never seen it this bad.
	Last week, Carson City had all its trees flattened by snow.
	Still looks like a war zone here.
	Now we're getting washed away.
	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.
	Sound of a thunderstorm East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	That was really quick.
	It only rang a couple of times.
	That's the way it can be.
	Yes.
	This is Brett calling from Ohio.
	Yes, sir.
	Gosh, I almost forgot what I wanted to talk to you about.
	The first thing I wanted to talk to you about was a guy on a shortwave program.
	I heard a couple of nights ago that there is a part of the Bible that he believes refers to Hale-Bopp.
	There 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.
	Maybe he means adrenaline.
	When that sucker starts to get big, boy, she'll be flowing.
	No, I really don't think that's what he means.
	Okay.
	But let's see, what else?
	What else was it?
	I don't know.
	Maybe you were going to tell us why we're not allowed to have multiple wives.
	That's one subject I don't even want to touch.
	Oh, I know what I wanted to talk to you about.
	Our Ohio State Buckeyes won the Rose Bowl today for the first time in 23 years.
	And everybody in Ohio here is really proud of him.
	Congratulations.
	Thanks, Art.
	Take care, my friend.
	I don't follow college football.
	I don't know why.
	I really don't know why.
	Why would that be?
	I really like football, but I like NFL football.
	And college football is just not the same.
	And I know there are a lot of people out there who feel that way about college football.
	Uh, with regard to the NFL, they don't like the NFL at all.
	To them, real football is the college stuff.
	Well, to me, real football is the NFL stuff.
	The real bone-crunching realities occur right there.
	The NFL.
	But, uh, you know, that's a Ford, Chevy, IBM, Mac argument.
	And I'm being generous when I throw IBM and Mac into it.
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	I've been listening to this.
	My name is Waldron from Ukiah, California.
	to uh... this is art over okay now i'm going to be right here i've been
	listening to this but it was a waldron from uh...
	uh... you cry out california's and i was driving along a few nights ago i heard
	this this tape edge accounting
	and it was going about five days a is in that area because it's almost about
	or pick that up with i would say you picked it up on nine forty a m right
	uh... let's period uh...
	actual more than that you have a nine sixty nine forty actually what is that
	anyway uh... i'm gonna make a guess i know that it's been there and i think
	it's a countdown to a new format
	It's a dramatic way to call attention to a change in a radio station format.
	That's only a guess.
	Huh.
	I could let you listen to it for a second if you'd like.
	Oh, that's alright.
	Okay.
	I don't need to do it.
	I know.
	I called three of my friends who are, you know, pretty smart.
	I mean, I'm 66.
	I've been around for a while.
	And we've never heard anything like this.
	We have no idea what it could be.
	Well, that's what I'm going to lay my money on.
	Alright?
	Well, thanks Art.
	We're about ready to wash away here in California.
	All right, I know.
	How bad is it where you are?
	Oh, I'm going to find you.
	I've got creeks on both sides.
	It's about a foot, about two and a half feet down.
	No problem.
	There's a big floodplain beyond us.
	I'm on a ranch.
	But we never have floods here.
	But boy, oh boy, oh boy.
	I know.
	It's a hundred year flood and then some, huh?
	All right, sir.
	Thank you.
	A hundred, yeah.
	And then some.
	I think that's what it is.
	I, too, have heard this.
	The countdown going on on 940.
	Well, I think it's probably a publicity stunt.
	And a good one!
	Because it gets everybody saying, what's that?
	940, it's 940 on 940.
	What is that?
	And all you hear is a countdown.
	Well, it's a good idea.
	But that's just my guess.
	They're counting down to a new format.
	Or something considerably more spectacular.
	Consider if that is what they're doing.
	A publicity stunt.
	And then, at the end of their countdown, something really horrible happens.
	Like a gigantic California earthquake, right at the very end of their countdown.
	How would they ever, ever, ever explain that?
	I wonder if they thought of that possibility.
	First time caller on the line, you're on the air.
	Yeah, hi Art.
	Hello.
	This is Les from St.
	Paul.
	How are you doing?
	Fine.
	Say, I got a little scenario.
	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 like Gene Roddenberry, for instance?
	And a lot of other writers and stuff that are out there.
	Could it possibly be that these people are pre-empting us a little bit for what is going to happen in this world?
	You mean science fiction writers preparing us for what is coming?
	Yeah, to the extent of letting us know the awakening, so to speak, that this really can happen.
	And it is happening.
	I firmly believe we've already been visited.
	I mean, good grief, we're not the only planet out there that has life on it, you know.
	And I just thought that 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 just thought I would lay it on the public out there and just think about it, you know.
	The Area 51 and all that kind of stuff, you know?
	Well, I'm going to say this again, and I think I really mean it.
	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.
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, now that would be, like, they would actually be studying us for a while, but what if, let's say the companion they call... 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 of 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.
	Then again, theirs made hundreds of millions of dollars, and so who can complain?
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	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?
	Only heard of it, sir.
	Really disappointed myself.
	Really?
	Has the consensus from your callers been positive?
	Yes.
	I really wanted to see that movie, and I was so excited, but it's just boring.
	Really?
	Listen, out of a two-hour movie, there's about maybe 25 minutes of real fun, clever stuff.
	But there's like whole scenes that just don't work, whole characters that just don't even belong there and don't mean anything to the plot.
	Well, it sure is doing well in the box office.
	I know.
	Alright, one thing though, sir.
	This March, I know you're past your predictions.
	But I'll give you one off the record.
	Alright.
	I don't know the date, but in March, the movie Private Parts with Howard Stern comes out.
	It'll gross over a hundred million.
	Well, now, see, that's conjecture.
	Not that it will come out, but how much it will gross.
	It's a prediction, though.
	Alright, well, fair enough.
	Private Parts, when I haven't even seen Mars Attacks?
	Well, we're talking Howard Stern here.
	I mean, you do like Howard, right?
	Yeah, I do like Howard.
	All right.
	Howard, have a nice year.
	All right, take care.
	But there are very few movies that I will go to see in the box office.
	And Howard's would not be at the top of my list.
	As he said, I haven't even seen Mars Attacks yet.
	Now, everybody I've talked to thought it was a riot.
	Yes, particularly my little town getting blown up.
	People in my town.
	Grump.
	Incredible.
	Absolutely incredible.
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hello, Art Bell.
	Yes, sir.
	How are you tonight?
	Oh, just fine.
	Well, this is Joe from Newburgh, Oregon.
	Yes, Joe.
	And I had a couple things maybe everybody would want to discuss.
	Wanted to know what we might call the first decade of the 21st century.
	The aughts or the zips or the pre-teens?
	You're right.
	We've got the 90s, the 80s, the 70s, 60s, 50s.
	What do you call the first decade?
	The aughts?
	That sounds awful.
	It does.
	It sounds awful to me.
	The zeros?
	That's not good.
	I had another one here.
	Should we celebrate the new beginning of the 21st century on December 31st 1999 or December 31st the year 2000?
	I know, there's going to be a big fight about that.
	There is.
	Anyway, had a lot of rain up here.
	That's what I've heard.
	And it's flooding All around me, I'm doing well where I'm at, but I notice a lot of people are getting flooded out.
	Yeah.
	It's been sad.
	Yes, a lot of people will be up very late tonight wondering about the rivers, so we'll try and get reports as we can.
	With regard to 2000, for me, alright, not technically, But for me, I'm gonna celebrate it when the calendar says 2-0-0-0.
	And that may not be technically correct, but I don't care.
	When it says 2-0-0-0, it is time to celebrate.
	Besides, who knows if I'll even make it to 2001.
	If I do, I'll celebrate again.
	Uh, first time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hey Art, it's Pat.
	Hello Pat.
	I'm from Redding.
	Uh, near the Reading Ripple.
	Yes, I'm right by the Reading Ripple.
	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.
	Good, why?
	Well, Jesus said, out of the hardness of their heart, Moses let them have more than one wife.
	But it wasn't so from the beginning.
	Because in the beginning, remember, Adam only had one wife.
	And now you guys, because you're not hard-hearted, you don't get more than one wife.
	And what else?
	Oh, you know, I saw Fire in the Sky tonight, the first time.
	Really?
	And I didn't like it.
	I thought when the guys were on your program talking, it was much better.
	Well, that was the real thing.
	Fire in the Sky was the dramatic production.
	I know, and it wasn't that good.
	Well, it's a little like... I mean, when you hear it on my show with Travis Walton and company, You're hearing the real thing.
	Yeah.
	Real life.
	No question about it.
	It sounded reasonable.
	You know, it sounded real and true.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It's like reading a book and then going to see a movie.
	It's never the same.
	I really enjoy talking to you because I hear you all the time.
	You do, huh?
	I do, but you've cost me many a sleepless night.
	Well, I have a lot of sleepless nights myself.
	Well, yeah, but you get paid for it.
	That's right.
	All right.
	Thank you very much.
	Good talking to you.
	Take care.
	Well, there's plenty of... You know, see, I still don't get it.
	There's plenty of hard-hearted people out there now.
	More today, perhaps, than ever.
	I don't know that that precisely explains why... why they were allowed then to have multiple wives, but we are not now.
	Just exactly whose law is that, anyway?
	Hmm?
	I think it's one of those very gray areas, myself.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning, Art.
	This is Donald from KRV in Rustville.
	How you doing?
	I'm just fine.
	Well, Art, I hadn't heard you talk about it tonight, and I might have a little startling news for you.
	All right.
	Well, I was listening at the Midnight News.
	We get the CBS News?
	Yes, sir.
	And what they were talking about was an asteroid belt that about 200 asteroids have broke out of.
	And they're talking about them being on trajectories, different trajectories, and possibly coming toward Earth.
	Hey, listen, can you hold on through the news?
	Sure.
	We have news coming up here at the top of the hour.
	That's big news, so I need to hold you over, okay?
	Okay.
	Stay right there, please, and this is for the people in all the flooded out areas.
	Land of A-list height Moody river, your muddy water
	Took my baby's life Hey Jenny, pass the sandbags
	Last Saturday evening Came to the old oak tree
	It stands beside the river Where you were to meet me
	Asteroid update right after the news break On the ground your glove I found
	With a note addressed to me It read, dear love, I've done you wrong
	And I must set you free No longer can I live with this hurt
	And this sin I just couldn't tell you
	Why don't you ask him If he's gonna stay
	If he's gonna stay If he's gonna stay
	If he's gonna stay Why don't you tell me
	What's going on Why don't you tell me
	Who's on the phone Oh
	Premier Radio Networks presents Art Bell's Somewhere in Time.
	Tonight's program originally aired January 1st, 1997.
	It's great to be here.
	I'm Art Bell and we're doing anything you want to do all night long.
	Open line 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 Gotta 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?
	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.
	Right.
	And they said some asteroids... Well, you repeat it.
	Okay.
	What they said was... There's an asteroid belt out there.
	I don't know what the name of it was.
	They said the name of it, but some asteroids had broke off out of this belt.
	And they were on different trajectories.
	And they were around about Jupiter right now.
	And some of these...
	They were saying it was a half a mile wide, and its impact at the Earth would be the equivalent to a nuclear explosion.
	Oh, yes.
	Did they suggest that any of them were on a trajectory for Earth?
	Well, they talked like it, but they didn't just... They said, possibly, is what I heard.
	And I was just wondering if any of the other colleagues out there had heard this.
	It wasn't on.
	We just went to CBS News a minute ago, and it wasn't on there.
	Well, you know, in February, I believe it is, NBC is going to do a special called, huh, Asteroid.
	Were you aware of that?
	No, I wasn't.
	Now, I wonder what the timing for this would be.
	I don't know.
	They were talking about them being in some kind of orbit right now, and like I said, they said they were around Jupiter.
	But also, the people, I think, that discovered this, these asteroids, are the ones that discovered those asteroids that hit Jupiter.
	Oh, yes.
	Yes, indeed.
	All right, sir.
	Very troubling.
	I'm going to see if I can get some confirmation of that, all right?
	All right.
	Sure do.
	Appreciate it.
	And one more thing.
	During the break, there was a man called me here in town.
	He heard me on the radio with you.
	And he was wanting to know when you were going to have that man on that was talking about colloidal silver.
	I hadn't heard of that.
	Well, we've done a number of shows on it, and we will have somebody on again, maybe Wayne Green, who knows about that.
	Okay.
	Like I said, I just heard it at the 12 o'clock hour, and I hadn't heard nothing of it since.
	All right.
	We'll see if we can get confirmation.
	Anybody else hear that?
	Asteroids?
	Some sort of collision?
	New orbits?
	New trajectories?
	Uh-oh.
	Anybody else hear anything?
	A rock-slash-mudslide has closed totally.
	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 alright.
	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 Fourteenth 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, and I, 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.
	Hi, Art.
	I'm Robert.
	Listening to you on KOH in Fairfield, California.
	Yes, sir.
	As far as your plural marriage question goes, I believe Congress made it illegal in the mid- or late-1800s in order to deny Utah statehood.
	Was that it?
	Yes.
	Because of the Mormons?
	Correct.
	Correct.
	A similar trick was used by the cotton industry to get cannabis made illegal, but I'm not aware of the timeframe for that.
	Do you see any way that that is a constitutional law?
	Not at all.
	Not at all.
	So, somebody could challenge it.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Somebody, for example, arrested for bigamy could challenge it.
	Yeah, I would assume so.
	I mean, it is a federal law.
	It was used by Congress, like I said, too.
	It was used as a ploy when the Mormon Church denounced the Really?
	Yes.
	Gee, we didn't treat them very well at all, did we?
	marriage it was within a couple years after that they were allowed to take it
	and uh... allowed to continue on with their religion they were actually uh... the reason
	why they were there
	uh... you might have somebody from missouri check on this but i put it
	believe up until nineteen seventy six it was legal to shoot mormons on-site in
	that state they're actually chasing you
	really yes she wouldn't even very well at all did we have a well you
	know we did to the indians with the mexicans we did every also uh... what's
	the difference All right.
	Well, I appreciate your input, Sarah.
	Thank you.
	It's a hard question to answer.
	It wasn't mine.
	Somebody called me up right first call.
	And I just didn't have an answer.
	I've never really understood this.
	I mean, you think about it a little bit.
	Why would it be constitutional to have a law that says that limits your freedom?
	I don't, I really don't get that one.
	Sound of a rocket launching.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi Art, Steve from South Dakota.
	Hi Steve.
	How was your New Year's?
	Just excellent.
	Great.
	I want you to hear me out on this.
	Remember I 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.
	Yes.
	And I had received a map of Nye County, Nevada.
	Yes.
	The lunar crater area, and you were teasing me about the glass structures and everything.
	Yeah.
	Well, did you ever get it in the mail?
	No.
	However, however, all of my mail, we opened mail for several hours today.
	And we have several more days of several hours' work to go.
	Well, I sort of hope you get it.
	I thought that you might be interested in seeing it.
	But before I sent this to you, I got to thinking of a little picture in my mind.
	You are the king of talk radio.
	Like, imagine you sitting on a throne, and, you know, living in a, you know, like a, you know, Frank Lloyd Glass concrete structure.
	And then, I thought of, like a little moral to the whole thing, and I thought to myself, people who live in glass houses should steal thrones.
	Oh, my.
	No throne.
	I mean, I, I, I, yeah. Oh my. No throne. I am not the king of anything. I just do a talk show.
	All right.
	I have wondered, though, what it would be like to be a king.
	What do you think it would be like to be royalty?
	Didn't I mention that on the air the other day?
	I think I did.
	To be royalty.
	In other words, your entire self, your persona, what you are, what you will ever be, is what you were at birth.
	Royal blood.
	You're special.
	You're above all others.
	You're royalty.
	Blue blood.
	It's a concept most Americans simply can't grasp.
	And I really can't.
	Can you imagine that from birth?
	You're special.
	People wait on you.
	You have man and woman servants.
	Your every wish is their command.
	And you have done nothing to deserve this, other than to be born in a certain lucky jackpot genetic way.
	I wonder what it's like.
	I bet they lead miserable lives, huh?
	Wouldn't that be your guess?
	First time caller of the line, you're on the air.
	Hello, yes, Art, this is Thomas from Colorado.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, I'm calling in regard to two or three things.
	First of all, I sent you a packet of information about, it had my new book in there, The Coming of the Next Millennium.
	Oh, I've got it, yes.
	Yeah, I wanted to let your listeners know that Yeah, it's out on the market now for $8.99, and they can call me at 5... No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Can't give out the number.
	Okay.
	If we have you on as a guest, we would allow you to do that.
	I see.
	But under normal circumstances, uh-uh.
	Okay.
	Well, let me go on then with some of the things that I felt very was very neat within the predictions and that is in 1997
	someone called in saying that New York was thought to be bombed and I also have those same
	feelings.
	I got my information from the Bible in fact and Psalms.
	If you coincide the yearly events due to some of the things that go on, I feel very strongly.
	It was the 96th caller, in fact, which is this year, so they all line up.
	All right, well, very interesting.
	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 here
	Thank you.
	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.
	There is no question about that.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air, hello.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	How you doing?
	I'm doing.
	Who is this, Art Bell?
	I'm the only one here, sir.
	Okay.
	It's got to be me.
	I'm calling in regards to... Turn your radio off, please.
	That's number one.
	I'm calling in regards to so many people having more than one wife.
	Yes.
	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 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 wanted... So you're trying to tell us the bankers are what limit us to one wife?
	Yes, it's in the books.
	It is in the books.
	Absolutely horrible.
	What right do the bankers have to oblige our constitutional rights?
	They wanted us in debt for the rest of our life.
	And that's what they did.
	They put us in slavery.
	and that is what i what i don't have to go through yet what i don't understand
	is uh... how did multiple wives
	help pay off houses because complete
	if i was very if i had five wives they could i could have five different
	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.
	Yeah, but you were required, particularly then as opposed to now, to be the breadwinner.
	You don't pay off the mortgage.
	But I could send my wives out and do it.
	And that's what they were doing.
	They were sending their wives out to work and everything else, and the man was staying home.
	It just doesn't make sense.
	I mean, those were the days when wives didn't work, though.
	It's in the history books.
	Alright, alright.
	Alright, thank you.
	So the bankers, huh?
	Well, we've heard it all now.
	The bankers.
	That one doesn't make sense.
	I'm not saying it's not true, it just doesn't make sense.
	There might have been a dowry.
	I suppose.
	But under most circumstances, wives didn't work, and you'd have several mortgages to pay off.
	So, from the banker's point of view, you would think they'd like it.
	Unless there were too many defaults.
	Because poor Harry's trying to pay off four mortgages.
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Good evening, Art.
	This is Michael in Los Angeles.
	Hello, Michael.
	I have an answer for you about how the polygamy law can be constitutional.
	How?
	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... Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	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?
	I don't know the answer, honestly, on that count.
	But that is what we're trying to find out.
	I appreciate your call and your stay about it.
	And insofar as you said what you said, I'm sure you're correct.
	will be right back on
	the show.
	Thank you for joining us.
	Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from January 1st, 1997.
	Interesting faxes here.
	One saying they finally have determined the frequency of the transmission from Hail Mary accompanying Hail Bop.
	And the frequency is 940 on the AM band.
	Hmm.
	Wonder what that could mean.
	Ah well.
	Discard these until we can find out what they really mean.
	And, uh, and that particularly is being heard most strongly in the central California area.
	But I'm sure it means nothing.
	And this, Art, the only reason for college football, especially the bowl games, is to figure out which individuals are going to end up in the NFL.
	It's a great preview of upcoming stars in the NFL.
	It's fun to try and guess who's going to make the next step to the next level.
	Okay.
	And east of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hi, how are you?
	I'm okay.
	Great.
	I'm down here in Louisiana.
	Louisiana?
	Yeah.
	I want to ask you a question, please, sir.
	All right.
	Were you on the air Monday night?
	Monday night.
	Why, yes, I was.
	Were you?
	Yes.
	Do you happen to remember what your show was about?
	Predictions.
	Okay.
	We were doing predictions for 1997.
	Why?
	Well, I was up a little late that night.
	I'm not usually up that late and I stayed up late tonight.
	I can just barely get your show.
	I'm in Shreveport, Louisiana.
	I don't know if you have any stations that are any better than 810.
	That's in Chicago and I don't have any extra antenna on my little radio.
	I can barely hear you.
	Are there any stations that I can get you any better here?
	Well, are you anywhere near Monroe, Baton Rouge, or New Orleans?
	No, I'm in a dry pocket.
	I'm about 150 miles from Monroe.
	All right, I would say try 1200 on the dial, which is the mighty San Antonio, W-O-A-I.
	Oh, I'm familiar with that.
	What time do you... Is that live?
	Well, sure.
	Really?
	Yes.
	Okay, great.
	I can get that every now and then.
	All right.
	Well, you need a good radio.
	I sure do.
	Listen, uh, that madman Markham, that was unbelievable last night.
	Oh, yes.
	Well, um, honey, don't goad this guy to jump through the hoop.
	I'm not goading him.
	This guy, now you've got to remember this guy is intent on doing this.
	I mean, he got tossed in jail.
	Right, and still he's intent on doing this, so I'm not goading him.
	I know you're not goading him, but he sounded so pathetic last night when you told him, I guess that was transcribed, I mean, was that recorded last night?
	That was recorded, yes.
	Okay, so when you said, well, this could be a real obituary for you.
	It could be, it could be, but look here, look here, look, here's how to think of this, alright?
	I've reasoned it through.
	You think he's going to do it regardless?
	I do, but I mean, people die, they walk in front of 18 wheelers, smoosh, they're gone.
	They get diseases, they slowly deteriorate and they go that way.
	There's lots of, everybody's going to go one time or another, right?
	Name of glory.
	And, you know, if that's his thing and his way, and it's really not Suicide, because he thinks he may go somewhere else.
	Well, could I intercede here a little bit?
	You can try.
	With your influence and brilliance and good thinking here, 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 the fact that he likes to sing?
	Ma'am, maybe he will.
	Look, I tend not to look down my nose on people doing... It's like Spaceship Al.
	He's building a saucer.
	Right.
	That's his thing, and I think he should be commended for it.
	Same thing with Madman.
	You never know.
	What if Madman opens a portal to somewhere else?
	Huh?
	Then what will you be saying?
	Then you'll be saying, what a genius!
	But, you know, we'll never know if he vaporized where he is.
	Well, we'll know because we'll be sweeping up, you know... Little scraps of paper.
	That's right.
	Listen, thank you very much for the call.
	That's all I can say.
	He's bound and determined to go ahead.
	He's got a new warehouse.
	He had to move the whole thing to a new warehouse.
	Then he needed gigantic generators to generate the three million volts he's going to use.
	And he's got them.
	That's the last word I've got.
	He's got them.
	And they're all going in place, so we're getting close to zero hour for Madman Markham, and when I get the call, you know I'm gone.
	So if one night I'm not here, and they're announcing I'm on my way to Missouri, you'll know.
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Yeah, this must be a real miracle.
	Well, there are miracles, sir.
	I dialed the number one time, and it started ringing.
	Well, there you are.
	It's never done that.
	Yeah.
	Hey, anyway, Art, I kind of wondered, when can we start this quickening or awakening of all the listeners?
	Sir, you can wake up any time you want.
	Okay.
	Well, I'm awake, but anyway, well, let's see, I have a text here that explains history in our solar system.
	You do, huh?
	Which might be nice to know before this If I had your fax number, I could fax you an outline.
	Oh, I'll send you my fax number.
	You want it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's area code 702.
	Okay.
	727.
	Okay.
	8499.
	Okay, it'll be the... A three page maximum.
	If you send more than that, it will not print out and I will never see it.
	Okay, I'll just send you two pages.
	Alright.
	Yeah, it'll be called the about and text.
	Alright.
	Thanks.
	I'll look forward to it.
	Yeah, some of you out in central California might check 940.
	The fax here says, the rumor is, that's where the companion is transmitting at the moment on 940.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Happy New Year.
	Hello.
	Yeah, since you're talking about Multiple lives on your station.
	Um, I got one, another suggestion for... Well, sir, first thing you gotta do is turn your radio off.
	Okay.
	Okay?
	We'll hold on while you do that.
	All right.
	The eternal, everlasting instruction.
	Turn off your radio.
	That's a good one.
	Yeah.
	Um, anyway, um, I don't Nevada legalize, um, ladies, um, Being topless in society since they legalized gambling, topless bars, and brothels.
	And another thing is, cement masons and bricklayers contribute to the floods at the Truckee River and build portable walls to replace the Um, sex being used.
	Well, uh, it wouldn't be a problem if you had multiple wives, because you'd send them down there and they would, all of them, would sandbag together.
	Your home would be cool.
	Alright, thank you.
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi, this is, uh, a call from Houston.
	Well, hello, Houston.
	And I need to ask you something.
	Okay.
	You know, all the talk about Hale-Bopp.
	Yes.
	And I've heard you mention, and several other people mention, that Mr. Hale has said this and this and this, or he has thus and so on his website.
	Yes.
	Has anyone talked with Mr. Bopp?
	No.
	Is he that silent partner?
	Bopp has been extremely quiet throughout all of this.
	I thought that was very strange that Mr. Bopp would not open his mouth.
	You would certainly think by now Mr. Bopp would have made some kind of statement to the press, yes.
	I just found that kind of strange.
	I do, too.
	I have another weird observation for you.
	This, dear lady, is the home of weird observations.
	Go right ahead.
	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 greats.
	Of what?
	Of the greys.
	Of the greys?
	Have you noticed the shape of the headlamps?
	The outline of the headlamps on the new cars?
	Now that you mention it.
	They're kind of, not really, but they have that almond, sort of an almond shape of the eyes that you see on the pictures of the greys.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	And before long, we'll probably have a vehicle that looks just almost exactly like a grey coming at you.
	I don't think it's any better than the Etzel, though.
	Oh, no.
	No, no, no way.
	But I thought they were just getting us used to seeing that shape.
	All right.
	Thank you very much.
	Good night.
	Good night.
	night, take care.
	As our cars slowly morph into an image of the greys.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Good morning.
	Good morning.
	Is this Mr. Bell?
	Yeah, I'm the only one here, sir.
	At the risk of being nauseatingly repetitive, turn your radio off, please.
	All right.
	Yeah, I was just listening to the show, but it must not be tonight's show.
	Yes, it is.
	There's a delay.
	Oh, it is?
	Oh, I'm Brian.
	I'm just calling from Lincoln, Nebraska.
	I was just calling to say you've got a great show.
	And it delivers nothing but unturned stones and undiscovered doors.
	I just want to say props for 315.
	All right.
	Well, thank you very much.
	315 affiliates now, yeah.
	A lot of unturned stones and unopened doors and questions.
	We probably generate more questions than we do answers.
	But that's kind of the way life is.
	There are ready answers for very few things, including, by the way, why we can only have one wife.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Good morning.
	Yes, sir.
	Where are you?
	Oh, Farida Midland.
	This is Tim down in southeast Texas.
	Farida Midland, Texas, huh?
	All right.
	Close enough.
	Yes.
	Some time back, you were speaking about some volcanic activity in Iceland.
	Oh, yes.
	And I never heard any follow-up on it.
	Well, what happened is a volcano, sir, went off, literally underneath an ice flow, blew a hole through 200 meters of ice, and began to melt the ice.
	And now they're having severe flooding problems.
	I talked to a man in Iceland the other morning.
	He was telling us about it.
	Yes, sir.
	It's been about a month or so, you talked about some Volcanic activity.
	I didn't catch all of it.
	I think in the Caribbean.
	Montserrat is on red alert, getting ready to blow in the Caribbean.
	There is, in addition, a new Hawaiian island about to be formed.
	It'll take some time, actually, but there's an underground volcano doing that.
	So, there's a lot going on.
	I'm not too worried about it, but has anybody done any study about a tsunami in the Caribbean or in the Gulf?
	Well, tsunamis anywhere are bad news, sir.
	Yes, but if the volcano blows out, that could be the cause of it.
	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 US?
	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 US uh... of this uh... uh... united states but if there's a new island west it's like the question about why it's west of the rockies you're on the air hi hi art yes sir hi i have a question about one of the clinton eight uh... she was a lady that was supposedly keeping track of the gulf war uh...
	Turned up that a bunch of the pages were missing.
	Oh, yes.
	She is subsequently turned up missing.
	Have you heard anything about her?
	Not a word.
	I did hear about the missing texts, records.
	Exactly.
	She's the only one that was in charge of keeping track of that.
	She's also mysteriously vanished.
	Now, that I have not heard.
	What is your source for that?
	Sounds pretty bad, but G. Gordon Letty.
	G. Gordon Letty.
	Well, that's all right.
	G. Gordon might be a source.
	Yeah, and he's actually been looking for her, and I haven't been able to get through to him to find out if he's had any new information.
	But apparently, she cannot be found anywhere.
	Intriguing.
	Another one of Clinton's inner circle that we might find bones before anything else.
	Hey, have you checked your email lately?
	I sent you an email about 20 minutes ago.
	No, not that recently.
	Okay.
	It's on Barry McCaffrey's position that he said about the new marijuana laws for medicinal marijuana in Arizona and California.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	He said that the voters were asleep at the switch.
	That they didn't know what they were voting.
	What an arrogant... Can you believe what he's saying?
	...bunch of B.S.
	I mean, how can they suggest... In other words, something is passed by the people of this country.
	In Arizona, it passed by 65%.
	Yeah, and they're saying the people were asleep at the switch simply because they don't agree with what the voters have done.
	That is the most arrogant piece of B.S.
	I've ever heard.
	It's incredible.
	Clinton is now saying that they're going to put the doctors in jail for pursuing... Well, I know.
	Remove their licenses as well.
	That's amazing.
	There's other drugs in that classification, that category, that can be prescribed by the doctors.
	They just choose for that certain drug not to be allowed.
	Yeah, I think they've lost their minds back there.
	It's crazy.
	Alright, thank you.
	Thanks again for your time, Mark.
	Right.
	What happens is a government drug or not 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 the 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.
	Think about that, guys.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Well, hello, Art.
	Hello.
	You spooked me.
	I'm not used to people like you actually answering.
	I know.
	Hi, my name's Dave.
	I'm calling from Cape Jordan, Missouri, the always lovely hometown of Rush Limbaugh, although I'm not proud of it.
	Why not?
	You don't like Rush?
	Actually, no.
	That's just not my politics.
	I see.
	About what the last caller said, I think it's about time the government realizes the drug war ended a long time ago, and I think we lost.
	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.
	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.
	Yes, it is.
	I wish I'd been able to get through to you on last Friday or Monday to get in a prediction.
	Did you recall if anybody got in any predictions related to the Internet?
	Not specifically, what would yours be?
	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.
	Oh, I don't think so, because it's growing.
	More bandwidth becoming available all the time.
	But I'm going to make my prediction.
	I predict the government wants control of the Internet, and the way they will try and get it This is one conspiratorial prediction for you.
	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.
	for nineteen ninety seven will be right back
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	premier radio networks presents art bills 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.
	Just a thought.
	Alright, east of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Hello.
	How are you doing tonight?
	Well, I'm all right.
	That's good to hear.
	How are you?
	I'm pretty good.
	All right, what's on your mind?
	Well, basically just that our time is going to end around the year 2000.
	Oh, darn.
	I know you hate to hear it.
	I do.
	I hate to say it.
	How's it going to end?
	Well, it's going to end miserably.
	Really?
	But, you know, that's just the way it is.
	Well, I mean, what's going to happen?
	Two-thirds of the world is going to die miserably.
	From what?
	From fire in the sky.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	You're right, I wouldn't like that.
	No, I don't like it either, but that's just the way it is.
	So, how do you plan to spend these next few precious years before the sky gets... Well, in the middle of the United States.
	In the middle United States?
	Well, sure.
	I'm going to stay on the part that's going to survive.
	What makes you so sure the middle United States is going to survive at all?
	Oh, well, gee, I'm sorry.
	I just assumed that.
	That's just the way it appeared to me.
	You've seen people delineate out assumed on the blackboard, right?
	Well, sure.
	Well, the whole thing could crack right down the middle and you could fall in like a squished bug.
	You're right.
	I know I am, sir.
	I thank you for the call.
	Think about it.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hello.
	Turn your radio off, please.
	I will.
	All right.
	Waiting for that to get off.
	Is that better?
	Oh, that's better.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I need to know When you were speaking in terms of Tel-Bopp and The Companion, sending messages on a different frequency, and something about 940 AM, I tuned in just then.
	Can you tell me, please, just one more time, what this means?
	Well, what are you hearing?
	I'm hearing that they're going to give us a message tomorrow morning.
	Well, I mean, what are you hearing on the radio?
	That's all they're saying?
	We will give you a message tomorrow morning?
	Well, Art, I woke up.
	I tuned you in.
	Yes.
	You're my everything.
	And this is what I heard.
	Something about Talebop and the Companion.
	And then we went on to hear about Nikola Tesla.
	Nikola, yeah.
	Somebody called about Nikola Tesla.
	Something about that.
	And about water's effect on landmass.
	By the way, I'm calling from Reading.
	I see.
	Right in the middle of it all, aren't you?
	Don't you love it?
	Well, I'm glad you've got a sense of humor about it.
	You guys are about to wash away, aren't you?
	I am about to wash away.
	I'm alone.
	I'm here.
	The lights keep going on and off.
	And finally I found my way from my hospital bed, hospital bed art, to find some swab sticks And light my candles.
	There wasn't one damn match in the house.
	I see.
	Well, obviously you've got a radio working.
	Oh yes, I do right now.
	It came back on.
	You're able to hear 940, right?
	Yes.
	Yeah, and it's got what?
	It's got a very strange countdown going on, doesn't it?
	Yes.
	And I believe that... Now, I would be the last... Someone's coming to visit.
	A guest is coming to dinner.
	A guest is coming to dinner.
	I love you so much.
	I really do.
	All right, my dear.
	thank you very much for the call in hang loose in reading
	there are some things just too good not to take advantage of
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hey Art, how are you doing?
	I'm doing all right.
	This is that genetically sub-mutated human star being abandoned for being non-usable to the ETs, at least as far as I've been told.
	Tony from Las Vegas.
	Well, I'd have said that to you, Tony, if you'd just asked.
	Hey, it looks like my prediction is coming true about the meteor shower and it being broadcast first.
	Well, you know what?
	This thing about the asteroids, it is true.
	Well, and I told you, mine's number 28.
	And already your prediction is seemingly... It's already true.
	Well, it's not true, but it might come true.
	Yeah.
	I think it is going to come true.
	I would say the odds have gone up.
	Yeah, and also a couple weeks ago you had somebody call and talk about supposed gyros, weight-tossing gyros.
	Yep.
	I think I could lend some credence to that.
	You know how a gyro is circular or elliptical?
	Oh, yes.
	Okay.
	I think what he was talking about was oval gyros that throw the weight.
	Kind of like when you see a description in a science program of how a bird flies.
	Right.
	It shows the wings going in an oval direction.
	Right.
	Okay.
	These are oval gyros.
	They throw the weight at it.
	Instead of centralizing the weight in all equally different directions, it throws it in one direction, and thereby it can counter gravity.
	Wow.
	It's the most inexpensive anti-gravity.
	Well, yeah, but I mean, what are its uses?
	I mean, for example, could you put it in my Geo Metro?
	Well, you could put it in that guy's UFO that's, uh, where is he in?
	Well, if you could put it in Al's UFO, you could put it in Spaceship Al, you could put it in my Geo.
	Right.
	Well, I don't know about your Geo, because it's already equipped, but... Yeah, but, I mean, you'd pull the engine.
	That's true, but it's still, you'd have to...
	You know, you'd have to retrofit it, and it wouldn't be easy.
	I'm willing to try.
	I mean, if you've got something that'll work.
	Hey, if you want to read that Prediction 28 back over, it'll verify what... It's too late, sir.
	It's sealed in the vault.
	Okay, well, I was the first one.
	Alright, thank you.
	It is true, there are... There's a whole bunch of asteroids out there.
	I'll tell you more about that.
	I read that last hour.
	And apparently they've...
	They have changed their orbits.
	Some scientists are saying maybe on Earth crossing orbits.
	Now, that doesn't mean they're going to hit Earth.
	It means if the Earth is in the wrong place at the right time, it could happen.
	You know, NBC's got a new movie called Asteroid.
	It's coming out in February.
	I'm getting a little sick of, uh, life imitating art.
	How about the rest of you?
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	This is Ogo.
	Uh, yes it is.
	Uh, turn your radio off, please.
	Okay.
	Um, this is Dennis from Hemet, California.
	Okay, well, we've got to leave the line, because you didn't turn off your, uh, radio.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi, Art.
	Hello.
	You can turn me off all you want, but I'm still here.
	Well, that's true of me, too.
	I mean, people turn me off all the time, but I'm still here.
	Right.
	So we're back where we began.
	Oh, you called already, didn't you?
	Yes, I did.
	You're right.
	You're off.
	You're out of here.
	Goodbye.
	You may be still talking, but we're not hearing you, you see.
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Yes, this is William.
	I was calling in regards to all the flooding in California.
	Yes, sir.
	And also a prediction that Michael Scallion had put over the air just about in New Year's.
	Yes.
	He had a program that he had done and he was talking about the flooding in Washington and Oregon and also in California.
	Yes.
	And I kind of think this might be kind of falling into that format, kind of a preliminary of what that might be coming together there.
	Well, it could be.
	You're saying it may be one of his predictions coming true.
	Well, very much so, yeah.
	Okay.
	With Hellbot coming around again like it's supposed to, it could be like a preliminary coming into it or leading up to it.
	Could be.
	So that's basically all I had to say about it.
	All right, basically, thank you and have a good morning.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning, Eric.
	Hi.
	King Arthur, well, how are we at the Knights of our Round Table?
	I'm no king!
	Anyway, um, I'd like to say, um, my name is Val, and I'm calling from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
	Yes.
	And I'm hearing you on 1500 KSTP in St.
	Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
	Do the wild thing at 702-727-1295.
	That's alright, I had to eliminate it.
	You hit touchtones and we knock them out, sir.
	Yeah, I know.
	I just pressed a button by accident.
	Okay, don't do that.
	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.
	They don't go to 6 o'clock.
	You know, um, I really...
	I can't answer that offhand.
	Winnipeg, Manitoba.
	I can't answer that right now.
	I think there may be something up there, but I'm not sure what.
	Okay, because I'd just like to hear the whole program.
	I hear it on Friday night, Saturday morning, the whole program.
	But I'm wondering, now I could make a prediction, but I know we have passed the prediction dates But I hope and predict that in March, between March and June, you'll have a shortwave station that I can hear the whole program on anyway.
	I wouldn't bet on that.
	No?
	And there are a number of reasons for that.
	We were moving toward the idea of going on shortwave.
	But frankly, technology has moved on, sir.
	And to get coverage in foreign lands, there are better ways to go about it.
	Okay.
	And we're moving toward that direction.
	Yes.
	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.
	Okay.
	Now, the third question is, when are you going to have a station come to Cary?
	Will there be a local station in the future in Winnipeg, Manitoba to carry your entire program?
	Well, I'll tell you what you do.
	You figure out a good talk station, pick one in Winnipeg, Manitoba area, and call them up and request them to call our network.
	That's the way to get that done, and I will be glad to give you that phone number.
	Would you like it?
	Yes, please.
	It's area code 541.
	Yes.
	6-6-4.
	6-6-4.
	8-8-2-9.
	8-4-2-9.
	8-8-2-9.
	Yes.
	And you want to ask for somebody in the Affiliate Relations Department.
	Okay.
	Okay?
	5-1-4.
	Is that 5-1-4?
	No, no, no.
	5-4-1.
	5-4-1.
	You dyslexic thing, you.
	5-4-1-6-6-4-8-8-8-2-9.
	Yes.
	Alright?
	Okay, thank you very much.
	You bet.
	lexicon you have five four one six six four eight eight eight two nine yes all
	right okay thank you very much you bet take care and that's the way to get that
	done Uh, wild card line, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Oh, here she is.
	Oh, here I am.
	How come you always say that?
	It's like you're going to explode or something.
	Well, I don't know.
	It's always, it's always just, uh.
	Oh my God, what's next?
	Yeah.
	Oh, you know, I really can't believe that you're actually a football fan because you know, there's no explosions in football.
	Oh, yes.
	Oh, yes.
	Explosions of human flesh.
	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?
	Now, but I'm always looking at the tight pants.
	You know what I'm tired of talking about?
	What?
	U.S.
	government cover-ups.
	Oh, yeah, but they never end.
	Council for Relation, Trilateral Commission, World Trade Organization, Liberals being the root of all evil.
	I'm just like, oh my god, let's talk about something else.
	I'll tell you a secret.
	Did you know that I was just made a charter member of the Trilateral Commission?
	Oh wow, so now we have somebody on our side who can tell us all the secret things that they're doing to brainwash us.
	And you know how I got it?
	How?
	They saw my appearance on Dark Skies where I played William Paley and they liked it so much they invited me.
	Wow!
	And of course you joined.
	Of course!
	Of course!
	You don't think I want to help rule the world?
	Come on!
	Give me a break!
	Yeah!
	I get to hobnob with Peter Jennings and people like that?
	Deciding the fate of the world?
	You're going to do things to brainwash us and get our money from us and overtax us.
	In other words, it'll be business as usual.
	Uh-huh.
	Hey, you know, if men can have more than one wife, or possibly... I want women to have more than one husband.
	Oh, well, it would be, in this day of equal rights, a given.
	That's right.
	I'd send all mine out to work.
	Uh, in other words, you want more than a two-income family.
	That's right.
	I'd be like having a four-income family.
	You know, and we have a lot of dependents, I'm sure.
	You know, actually, as it is, women outlive men.
	They inherit men's money, and most of the money is in the hands, and real estate, is in the hands of women.
	Did you know that?
	No, I didn't, but you know, well, actually, listen, that's a secret.
	You're not supposed to tell anybody.
	Uh, well, it's no big secret to me.
	I mean, you can see... Well, I know, but, you know, we try not to talk about it because we like to let our men think that they're in charge.
	Yeah, I know.
	Okay?
	I know.
	So let's not talk about that anymore.
	Very sad, actually.
	Yeah, well, okay.
	Just as long as you know who's really wearing the pants in the world.
	Yeah, alright, thanks.
	I have known that for a long time.
	You can see it.
	Women giving each other a knowing nod.
	A little smile at the corner of the mouth.
	A quick wink of the eye when they don't think men are watching.
	Oh, no.
	I know.
	And they know that I know.
	It's actually very dangerous for me.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Yeah, this is Frank from Missouri.
	All right, Frank from Missouri.
	Turn your radio off.
	Okay.
	It's off.
	Good for you.
	Yeah, I was calling a couple three things there tonight.
	One, you had Joyce Riley on there a while back.
	That's correct.
	And she had been talking about that Title 50 in the U.S.
	Code annotated.
	That's right.
	And so we dug it up and put it on the web page so everybody could see it.
	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.
	Yes.
	And they have Put a block in there where you can't get that anymore.
	Well, it can't be very blocked.
	Maybe it's blocked now, but I'll tell you something.
	It wasn't earlier when you first mentioned it than it is now.
	It was at Cornell, and there were enough people who got it, so it's well known.
	The other thing I was going to mention, you were talking about the multiple wives thing earlier.
	Yes.
	The reason that law came into effect in the United States was because of the Mormons.
	Back in the 1800s, when they first started up, they were taking multiple wives, and until that time, there was not a law.
	Well, nobody seems to really have it straight, because some other guy called and said, no, it's the banks.
	Nah.
	The reason it came into effect is because they wanted to have some kind of a legal hold over the Mormons.
	And that's when it first came into effect in the United States.
	Listen, since I'm joining the Trilateral Commission, what do you think that I should push for?
	Oh, well, probably to have the UN go ahead and just, you know, let their soldiers out of those bases around the United States now.
	They've been cooped up for all this time, you know, they need to get out and stretch a little bit.
	More R&R time?
	Yeah, get out and let, you know, get some, able to see some of the country.
	They've been cooped up on all those bases for so long, you know, they need to get out.
	So let's see a few of those blue helmets out in the cities.
	Sure, yeah.
	Alright.
	Sounds like a good mission to me.
	Thank you.
	I'll bring it up at the next meet.
	Call us toll free at 1-800-618-8255.
	Robert, you've made the first mistake.
	You can't use your last name on the air.
	That is not my last name.
	This is just a different name.
	Well, I can't put it on there anyway.
	Just give me a first name.
	Robert.
	Robert.
	Alright.
	I've been working and studying the design of an alien craft.
	Cool.
	And I've understood it, and I'm understanding the communications that they're sending.
	Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
	Who's sending?
	Well, the, um... Are you talking about the signal on 940?
	Yes, Hellbomb.
	I see.
	Um, the way that their communication is, is by static electricity charges.
	Really?
	That way, it's... It's like an alien's gotta go scuffing across a floor with a rug on it and then touch something to go further?
	No.
	That's primitive, man.
	Listen, do you want to hold on during the break here?
	Sure.
	You do?
	Alright.
	Maybe we can straighten this out.
	I can see a little grey just shoving across the rug.
	Touching the gold bar.
	Getting a shock.
	Then going.
	We'll be back.
	Midnight at the oasis, send your camel to bed.
	Shadows paint in our faces, faces.
	Romance in our hands, heavens holding on half moon.
	Shining just for us.
	Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon.
	Kick up a little dust.
	Come on, catch a sizzle, friend.
	We'll point you down the way.
	Come on, till the evening ends.
	Till the evening ends.
	You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
	Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from January 1st, 1997.
	Once again, here I am, top of the morning everybody, it's great to be here.
	You know... Um, let me tell you... I got a telescope for Christmas and I have been salivating to use this telescope and since Christmas.
	I have not had one... I mean, here I am in the desert, prime viewing country, and I have not had one day of clear skies with which to try and view even the moon.
	It's really depressing.
	I go out every few hours, and I look at the sky, and it's totally cloudy out there.
	Totally, totally cloudy.
	So, uh... It's depressing.
	It was a plan.
	You'd think somebody who could get into the Trilateral Commission could get a clear night, but no.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Good morning, Art.
	How's the wifey?
	How's what?
	How's your wife?
	My wife is much better, thank you.
	Good.
	You had Mr. Hoagland on, and I courteously ask, would you give the radio audience the history?
	How did you ever meet this fine man?
	How did I meet Richard Hoagland?
	Do you recall?
	You know what?
	I don't.
	I think a listener.
	I believe that a listener said, you have got to interview this guy.
	And this has been what?
	Ten years ago?
	Five years ago?
	Oh, a good five years at least, sure.
	Okay.
	I wanted to bring one last thing up.
	Very important about these so-called carved in wood maps.
	At least two of them have, at the upper end of the Nile, Unbelievably carved an onk and the word Kelowna.
	But, very importantly, in having taken very excellent... Wait, wait, wait.
	What does Kelowna mean?
	I'm going to get to that.
	Thank you for asking the question.
	You're welcome.
	They have great photographers.
	By the way, these museums all over the world, they must get more funding.
	They've got fine people working on them.
	I'm sure they do.
	What does colonomy mean?
	Okay.
	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, oncolonat, which is an ancient, final, Uralic, Ugric word, can be interpreted as channeling Canyon, the Ankh, very interesting.
	There's a lot more to be found.
	Huh.
	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.
	Okay.
	Before Christ.
	However, for some reason or other, at least one of these has carved the number 323.
	Now, that is the time of Ptolemy in Egypt.
	All right, sir.
	We're going to have to leave it there and get the next episode in the next call.
	Here I thought it meant something else.
	First time caller on the line, you're on the air.
	David from Kentucky?
	Yes, sir.
	How are you doing?
	I'm doing fine.
	I love your show, man.
	Thank you.
	What was I talking about?
	I don't know.
	I think he knows, but I don't know.
	Well, I've got one question for you.
	I want to know, what's your IQ?
	What do you think it is?
	Gosh, I don't know.
	I mean, you're a very, very intelligent person.
	So, warmer than... The last time you probably checked it was... Higher than the average room temperature?
	And what's the meaning of life?
	Actually, I do know the answer to that.
	Women.
	The answer is women.
	Well, only two good thoughts in this world, right?
	Women and, I guess, money.
	And has that perfect tenant, has she ever sent you a picture of her?
	Oh, yes.
	And she sounds great.
	I asked her if I could put it on the web page and she said no.
	She looks as good as she sounds?
	Well, I don't want to make a comment because it is so...
	I have found that women, more than anything, their looks, it's so subjective.
	Bye.
	I mean, so totally subjective.
	Anyway, you asked about the meaning of life, and that clearly is the meaning of life.
	Thank you.
	Women are the meaning of life.
	Now, if there were no women, it would not be worth living, would it?
	Think about that.
	I'm serious.
	Without women, life really, really would not be worth living, would it?
	So, there you have it.
	Um, alright, uh, moving on now, east of the Rockies, you're on the air, hi.
	Hello?
	Hello.
	Turn your radio off.
	Okay.
	That's good.
	Yes, I'm calling about, uh, last night I was, I heard you talking to Madman Mark... Madman Markham, yes.
	Yes, and, uh, I heard you mention the Fidel...
	Philadelphia Project.
	Yes.
	I was wondering if you could talk a little more about that, and I didn't know.
	I never heard about that.
	All right.
	I'll tell you what you do.
	Go out to your local video store tomorrow and rent a movie called The Philadelphia Experiment.
	Okay.
	All right?
	Okay.
	And then call me back.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Thank you, and have a good morning.
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hey, how you doing?
	I'm doing.
	Alright, um, I was just listening, and I didn't really hear all about it.
	All about what, sir?
	On 940.
	On 940?
	You mean the, uh, Hail Mary signal?
	Yeah, what exactly is that, sir?
	The Hail Mary signal.
	Okay, because I found it.
	940.
	Yeah, um, I mean, he's like counting down, and then he says things in between, you know what I'm talking about?
	Oh, yeah.
	Uh, has it been counting down for a long time?
	Messages, sir, to humanity.
	Oh.
	Has it been counting down for a long time?
	Has it reached zero yet and started over?
	No, well, no.
	Did you see Independence Day, sir?
	Uh, yeah, I did.
	You did?
	Do you remember what happened when they got to zero?
	Uh, didn't the, like, the ship, like... I beg your pardon?
	The spaceship, like, blew everything up or something?
	Yes.
	Uh-huh.
	So they haven't reached zero yet?
	No, I mean, is your city intact?
	Yeah, it is.
	You answered your own question there.
	What do you think is going to happen when it reaches zero?
	Uh, I don't know.
	All right.
	I think you get the picture.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you can read between the lines here, right?
	Yeah, well, what is, like, who's, what's the signal coming from?
	Is it 940?
	Yeah, but what's it coming from?
	Who's putting out the signal?
	Well, uh, I don't know.
	That's, I mean, that's a matter of, for conjecture.
	Uh, there are those who faxed me and said it was Hail Mary.
	Hail Mary?
	Hail Mary.
	Uh, I don't know.
	Do they have proof of that?
	I mean, it's no, of course not.
	It's just a fax.
	How could there be any proof?
	Oh, I don't know.
	All right, sir.
	Thank you very much for the call.
	You'll have to just wonder.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Yeah.
	This is Wayne in Gillette.
	Hi, Wayne.
	In Gillette, Wyoming.
	How are you doing?
	Oh, pretty good.
	How about yourself?
	Is that where the Gillette Razor is manufactured?
	No.
	What is Gillette famous for?
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	Would you turn your radio off, please?
	Okay.
	Why do people have so much trouble with this?
	Okay.
	All right.
	All right.
	That's good.
	Okay.
	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 we kind of listen to you here and we get you out of the Twin Cities, actually.
	Uh-huh.
	And that comes into Gillette very well?
	Yeah, actually, yeah, 1500.
	That's good.
	Oh, yes.
	Big, big signal.
	Cool.
	How big is Gillette, Wyoming?
	20,000 people.
	20,000.
	That's about the size of my town.
	Yeah, I kind of like it that way.
	I kind of like it this way, too.
	But my town is the fastest growing town in Nevada, which is the fastest growing state in the Union.
	Why is that?
	Hell, I don't know.
	Oh.
	Because people get sick of California, I guess.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, I can kind of see where that comes from.
	Low taxes.
	Really?
	Relative freedom.
	I don't know.
	I think we're a little bit more free here.
	Well, yeah.
	Prove it.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	Can you gamble in Gillette?
	Not legally.
	Not legally?
	Well, no.
	Well, we can.
	Well, we just have to go over to South Dakota.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	But that means you've got to travel outside Gillette to somewhere else?
	Well, it's no big deal to get out of Gillette, though.
	It's not a bad thing.
	It's only a couple of hours.
	How many traffic lights do you have?
	I don't know.
	Be honest here.
	About, maybe a dozen.
	Do you know how many we have?
	How many?
	One.
	Just one big long street?
	Just one traffic light.
	Oh.
	So there you are, sir.
	You lose.
	Sorry.
	Plus, we have one other thing.
	What's that?
	We have county officials that move the feds out of the way with bulldozers here.
	Well, actually, we've got county officials that don't listen to anybody.
	They don't even listen to their own constituents, right?
	No.
	All right.
	We really do have county officials.
	In fact, there was a picture in the newspaper.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	We're having fun now, aren't we?
	I guess we are, yes.
	Tim in Denver.
	Hello, Tim.
	Oh, happy new year.
	And to you.
	I wanted to tell you about our party.
	What party is that?
	Well, the tech club party we had last night.
	Oh?
	We were going to call you in mass and be the largest group that had ever called you while listening at the same time.
	There's just one little hitch in that.
	We weren't live last night.
	I know.
	We figured that out real quick.
	We planned ahead.
	It didn't work out, so what we did was we watched the Strange Universe segment that you were on.
	I see.
	And then we watched the Dark Skies episode, and we watched Strange Harvest with Linda Bolton Howell.
	No kidding.
	We got on your webpage, and then we pow-wowed at midnight.
	Really?
	We had a great time.
	It was really super.
	Well, sounds like fun.
	And I hear Whitley Streber is coming to Denver, so hopefully we can get a group to go down and attend his book signing.
	Whitley is coming to Denver, eh?
	That's what I hear.
	He's going to have a book signing the 11th, which is the same day the Chat Club meets, January 11th.
	I see.
	So hopefully we'll get a large group down and support him and visit with him, and it'll be a great time.
	All right.
	Also, also, can you get Shirley MacLaine on as a guest this year?
	I would love to get Shirley on.
	We talked about that the entire evening last night.
	Really?
	Yeah, we said of all the people we'd really like to hear you interview, Shirley MacLaine would be a great one.
	I would love to get her on.
	Well, best of luck to you.
	We hope you do it.
	All right, my friend.
	Okay, all right, have a good night.
	Thank you.
	Okay, let's see.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hello, this is Art Bell.
	It is.
	I'm John from Huntsville, Texas.
	Hi, John.
	I wanted to call.
	You were talking about the problem Arizona's having with the federal government.
	Yes.
	Mary Jane?
	Yes.
	I grew up in Arizona, so you struck a real note with me.
	What I think people in Arizona need to do... I'm kind of nervous.
	I've never been on the radio before.
	Relax.
	Okay.
	There's nothing to it.
	What they need to do is they need to have Like a confidence vote in the federal government.
	And, um... And if it's a no-confidence vote, then what?
	Then the state of Arizona... Should secede?
	Well, nah.
	This country don't need a civil war right now.
	And that's what... What do you think... 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 and Janet Reno stormtroopers to squash the arizona legislature in any resistance in arizona or
	with the president trying to avoid conflict simply
	do nothing and allow it to occur i was thinking
	what they ought to do if the vote of no confidence
	the state of arizona inact a lawyer
	that uh...
	any law enforcement authority at the federal level
	uh... that they would not recognize
	that individual's authority to arrest or detain citizens of arizona
	Uh huh.
	And if they did, then they would be committing a crime in the state of Arizona and be subject to arrest themselves.
	Well... Essentially take the teeth out of the feds so they can't bite 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 web page.
	I have a web page.
	It's www.artbell.com.
	And I'm in a new chat room.
	We have chat rooms on the web page.
	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 in to the topical chat room.
	For I am in there now.
	And, uh, we'll sort of, uh, 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, so I said okay.
	Goodbye.
	But now I've gone in there and now I can affirm that I am the one that's in there.
	So if you have an opportunity to get up on the web, come on in.
	It's www.artbell.com and you go down to the public chat rooms and you'll see the topical chat room listed.
	that's what I'm in right now.
	Sound of jet engine.
	Wildcard line, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Good morning, Art.
	This is Kerry from Washington.
	Hello, Kerry.
	Well, I was just going to ask you about what happened with the IRC thing, but you just answered that.
	Oh, it was some kind of victory, let me tell you.
	Yeah, I was going to say, how was the war, but sounds like you won.
	No, the other thing was... And it wasn't me.
	It was... You know, these were people who... I mean, I barely know my way around IRC at all, but these people really knew what they were doing, and they got together, and it took about an hour, hour and a half, and they got it all turned around.
	Oh, that was quick.
	Yeah.
	What does IRC stand for anyways?
	I think it's Internet Relay Channel, but I'm not sure.
	Oh, okay.
	The other thing is, Earlier you guys were talking about, or somebody called in and was talking about the new island that was forming off of Hawaii.
	Yes.
	My opinion on that would be is that the Hawaiian natives would take it over because they want to secede from the Union anyways.
	I know they do, yeah.
	So if anybody was to get that, they would.
	I know, but the way things have gone lately, the Japanese would sneak in, slam a flag down, and that would be that.
	Well, they would try, but I don't think we've done that.
	Actually, the truth of the matter is that there are X number of miles of territorial water.
	Yeah.
	And anything that pops up in that area, I think, would be nationalized immediately.
	Well, that's true.
	Because what is it, a 200-mile limit around whatever I'm not sure whether we've increased our limit to 200 miles or not.
	Oh, okay, because I thought international waters were like 200 miles off of any country.
	Well, I know a lot of countries claim 200.
	I think we still claim just 12.
	I'm not sure.
	Okay, well, that's all I needed to say.
	Alright, well, I'm glad you said it, and we won the IRC war.
	It wasn't even a contest.
	Well, cool.
	Thank you.
	Okay, thanks.
	Take care.
	Oh, what a great victory.
	Thank you all who helped.
	First time caller on the line.
	You're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rob.
	This is Robert.
	Robert, yes.
	This is about getting disconnected from me.
	This is about the static electricity.
	Oh, yes.
	What happened?
	I got disconnected.
	All right.
	Well, anyway, you were talking about an alien vehicle that was powered by static electricity.
	Yes.
	And I was wondering if a little gray had to scuff across the carpet and touch something.
	No, no, no.
	I've been studying the ancient pyramids, Stonehenge, and electrical fields.
	And if you look at the design of the large pyramid, it's got a water well, it's got two different air flows, so the upper one is hotter than the lower one, and then it's got an iron pit, so the top one is actually To generate hot air.
	Can you send me these plans by mail or fax?
	I don't have them all written down.
	Well, when you get them written down, could you do that?
	Sure.
	All right, because right now we've got to go.
	This, of course, is dedicated to those who are sick of the water and the rain in the Northwest.
	Listen, I'm in my own chat room up on the web page.
	It's the General Topics or Daily Topics Chat room, so if you're on the web, come on up www.artbell.com.
	We'll see you in there.
	we'll be right back on
	the air
	air air
	air air
	Tonight's program originally aired January 1st, 1997.
	We are conducting a test.
	Actually, there are two things going on.
	One, we're going to test and find out how many people can enter one chatroom before a server explodes.
	And here's how you do it.
	I'm, uh, right now, in my own, uh, chatroom.
	We have one on the webpage.
	Actually, a couple.
	So, if you have the ability to, uh, to get in, come on in!
	Usually people with, um, uh, with, uh, with, uh, Windows, uh, 95 and, uh, Netscape can get in.
	Uh, I don't know about others.
	I think Mac users are automatically barred.
	Um, 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 tried 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 webpage.
	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 Rowland 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 Greetings and salutations, Arthur.
	You have the Kansas Corps Conservative here.
	I haven't been able to hear you since about four o'clock, because Wichita's great wisdom cut you off then.
	Art Bell dot com.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Greetings and salutations, Arthur.
	And to you, sir.
	Where are you?
	You have the Kansas Corps Conservative here.
	Yes, sir.
	I haven't been able to hear you since about four o'clock because Wichita's great wisdom
	cut you off then.
	Well, they give a private morning show.
	Oh, yeah.
	Got some good news.
	As soon as the little station in Wellington gets the equipment, they're going to start
	Wellington?
	Mm-hmm.
	All right.
	Way down on the southern border, and that'll fill a little hole here.
	I see.
	And they're going to carry you clear up to six o'clock in the morning, and then maybe repeat the first hour they said.
	Now that's cool.
	Yeah, we won't have to strain to hear you.
	Anyhow, since I haven't been able to hear you, I don't know if you plowed this ground or not, but you were talking about polygamy.
	Oh, yes.
	Well, I figured out that there's no way that it could 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 are 600 and some Protestant religions in the United States alone.
	So if they were to say, well, this is a good one and that means the other 599 are bad, then they're not going to put up with that.
	They can't all be right.
	I'm certain of that.
	I don't know which one is right.
	I don't even know if the Mormons are right.
	But here's the bottom line.
	And how many mistresses would it put out of work?
	Right there!
	It would end the mistress thing, wouldn't it?
	Yeah, it would 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 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?
	Probably pretty high, actually.
	You think so?
	Yeah.
	I'm telling you, the real reason that men can't have many, many wives is simple, true human behavior.
	There would be murders, there would be killings, it would make today's typical family dispute look like a kindergarten battle.
	Trust me.
	Well, I think if you tried that with American women, you're probably right.
	The Mormons back in the old days, they were important women by the bushel basket full of Europe.
	I think you might be able to get away with that with some Oriental women.
	Possibly, but even today's oriental woman, sir, I assure you is beginning to get rather westernized.
	Well, I've been married to two American women, and they were both chupacabras.
	Thank you for the call, sir.
	Chupacabras, huh?
	Really, though, American women are just not ready for that.
	And believe me, the American men wouldn't be ready for it either.
	So the real reasons are the logical human reasons.
	And the crime rate.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Oh, boy, let me get my radio.
	Yes.
	Oh, I got dialer's cramp here.
	Redialer's cramp.
	Redialer's cramp, yeah.
	My thumb is swollen from that.
	Oh, it's Dennis from L.A.
	Hi.
	How are you?
	Fine.
	Yeah, that's a common question for you there.
	Hey, what are we going to do about our government here, Art?
	About our what?
	Our government.
	How can they step in and tell us what we want and say that we're... I understand the latest statement was that the voters there in California and Arizona were asleep at the switch.
	Yeah, what is that?
	How can they... I don't even know.
	That's very frustrating to me.
	It's not even the marijuana thing.
	It has nothing to do with the problem.
	Well, isn't it a little presumptuous of those back in Washington to presume they were asleep at switch only when they voted on that one issue?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Everything else, it's okay for us to get our votes approved as long as it's okay with them.
	And that's what they're saying.
	Well, they're making a big mistake.
	Oh yeah?
	They really are.
	This time they're making a big mistake.
	Because this time, it's not the courts stepping in.
	So much.
	I mean, they may certainly get involved.
	This time, it's the federal government stepping in, and there's going to be a lot more resentment.
	Mark my words.
	That's right.
	It's pretty scary, because I see in the future that if they think they can get away with it this time, then it's going to keep happening.
	Has there ever been in history a time when the government or a judge has overturned a people's vote?
	That you know of?
	Sure.
	I thought this was the first unprecedented time.
	No, no.
	California, well let's see, I believe Colorado passed a constitutional amendment.
	That got overturned by the courts.
	I believe California recently passed a measure with respect to illegal immigrants.
	That got put on hold by the courts.
	No, it's not the first time, but usually it's, of course, not the federal government and their drug czar warlord people.
	It seems to me that this isn't a free country like it's supposed to be.
	Yeah.
	By any means.
	Did you get my email from the other night?
	I don't know, sir.
	I probably did a lot of email here, so I don't know.
	It wasn't significant there.
	All right.
	Well, thank you.
	Take care.
	Well, looks like we may have crashed this room.
	It says, Error 444, Network Connection Closed.
	Disconnected.
	Network Connection Closed.
	Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, You said you built your own transmitter.
	Had an army base, was it, in Texas?
	That I what, sir?
	You built your own radio transmitter?
	That I built it?
	Yes.
	Yes, I've built many radio transmitters.
	Okay.
	How much do you know about radios?
	A fair amount.
	Why?
	I have problems with my CB and I'm trying to fix it.
	What's the matter with it?
	Well, I know it's internally because I saw a transistor smoking in front of me.
	A transistor smoked?
	That's an immediate bad sign.
	If a transistor has smoked, then at the very least you're going to have to replace that, but the odds are that something caused that transistor to smoke.
	Now, you were not by any chance in there trying to Experiment with getting more power from your CB, were you?
	I was not, however, since I... Tell the absolute truth.
	I was not.
	The only way we can really help you is to know the truth.
	I was simply trying to, um... Yes?
	Figure out problems with people trying to hear me.
	And they... Yeah, but the way you do that is to increase power.
	So you were trying to increase power.
	Haha, I knew it, see?
	I knew it, I'm psychic.
	Uh-huh, I'm psychic.
	Alright, well, what you do is, you take it to an electronic repair person.
	Because once the transistor is gone, there is no simple fix.
	You probably were jumping one point to another point.
	Trying to achieve more output.
	So, sorry about that.
	You're going to have to go to somebody who knows.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi, Art.
	I just had an interesting kind of question.
	All right.
	I've noticed that you kind of laughingly have referred to the Trilateral Commission a few times this evening.
	I wasn't laughing.
	Well, okay.
	Well, I just, a few years ago... I would never laugh at an organization that has invited me to be part of their esteemed body.
	Nice.
	Well, okay.
	I had something really interesting happen to me about two weeks ago.
	Okay.
	My grandfather passed away.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, he's a great guy.
	He was a professor at Harvard.
	Now, this might sound like an episode of some television show, but I was outside his room a couple nights before he passed on, and my father was in there.
	And I heard mention, I've heard of it before, but I actually heard the mention of a group called the Skull and Crossbones.
	Oh, yes.
	How did you know I had a tattoo?
	You have a tattoo?
	How did you know that?
	Dare I ask where?
	Huh.
	Well, they mentioned it.
	Yup.
	Yup, it's gone across the list.
	A few days go by, my grandfather passes on.
	And a few days after that I ask my father about it.
	Yes.
	And he says he can't really explain it to me.
	He goes, maybe sometime in the future.
	No, those of us so adorned are unable to speak about it.
	You should know that.
	I mean, you should know better than... Well, of course, if your grandfather had been here, he'd have told you that.
	Yeah.
	Well, he did tell you that.
	Well, no, it was my father that did.
	Your father?
	Yeah, he said he couldn't really talk about it with me.
	See?
	Now.
	That's right.
	He's absolutely right.
	So I've done a lot of, you know, looking around on the internet.
	You know, I've tried to look on some books and things like that.
	If I were to actually tell you about this?
	You'd have to come to my house and kill me, perchance.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	All right, sir.
	Thank you very much for the question.
	I appreciate it.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Yes.
	Hello, Art Bell.
	Hello there.
	Let me turn my radio off.
	Okay.
	First time callers, area 702-727-1222.
	First time callers, area 702-727-1222.
	Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, you're not allowed to use your last name on the radio.
	Oh, I'm not?
	No.
	Okay.
	Only Tony.
	All right.
	Well, my name's Tony.
	Cool.
	And you're in Austin.
	I'm in Austin, Texas, and I'm a professional clairvoyant.
	You know what?
	We got a new affiliate in Austin.
	I know it.
	And now the entire show is being carried in Austin.
	It's KJFK, uh, is that right?
	Maybe it's not right.
	It's not right.
	I guess it is.
	Uh, FM.
	We're on FM in Austin.
	Yes.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	As I said, I'm a professional clairvoyant.
	How do you get to be... I mean, how does one delineate between an amateur and a professional?
	Well, a professional earns his living.
	Ah, that's... You know, I've been doing it for now 20 years.
	Alright.
	And I did work at the Psyche Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada.
	You might be familiar with those folks.
	I've heard of it.
	And I've worked in other states.
	Now I'm in Texas.
	But the reason I'm calling your show is because I heard Ed Daines on there.
	Yes.
	And I think he's quite a great man.
	Yes.
	So do I. And when I was working at the Psychic Institute in Vegas, a lady came from Russia whose name was Sylvia.
	She never did give me her last name.
	She worked there for a while and she told me all about the Russian remote viewing, except that of course they use natural psychics.
	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 clairvoyance and technical remote viewers.
	No, exactly where you stand on that.
	I think you're a believer.
	In remote viewing, yes.
	You are correct.
	Okay.
	Now, I realize I probably don't have a lot of time right now, and just cut me off whenever you feel that you should, but... Alright, that'll do it right there.
	No, I'm just kidding.
	Go ahead.
	If you have something important, get it out.
	Right.
	Okay, here's the most important thing.
	Ninety-seven is going to be the year that the large quakes begin in California.
	So it is said.
	Okay, now, you can talk to a lot of people that I have done readings for, and I have never said any other year except for 97.
	Yeah?
	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.
	Demolish it?
	Demolish it.
	That's going to take quite a quake.
	Well, there's going to be three gigantic quakes.
	And the first one is going to hit Southern California.
	And it's going to be in January this year.
	In other words, well, it's already January.
	That's right.
	So you're saying this month?
	This month.
	God, that's bad.
	That's bad.
	Okay, and it's going to be the final warning for people to get their belongings and move out of that area.
	Tremendous earthquake zone.
	That is the hottest earthquake zone in the world.
	Well, it's been kind of cold for a while.
	Yes, it has.
	That's actually bad news.
	It's better when you're getting a bunch of small quakes.
	All right, listen, that'll have to do it for tonight.
	Thank you very much for the call.
	That's our new Austin affiliate, FM.
	And they're carrying the whole show, too.
	FM talk radio is really on the rise folks.
	First time caller in line, you're on the air.
	Hi, um, I was calling about the signal at 940?
	Yes.
	Um, well, I've heard the signal before.
	I've actually heard this before.
	You've heard it before?
	Yes.
	Um, it was a couple years ago, a friend of mine and I were driving around, and we heard it all of a sudden broadcast on the air, and we were freaked out by it.
	And, um, it's, you know, it counts down.
	Yep.
	And, uh, I guess it's supposed to end at, like, 5 o'clock this morning?
	Well, when the signal ended before, a new radio station came on the air.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	So you're suggesting it could be a promotional thing?
	Yeah, kind of like the giant egg.
	We were really scared about it.
	We kept coming back to it, you know, to see if it was over.
	Well, you know what?
	Yeah?
	They depend on that.
	Yeah.
	That is to say, you keep coming back to it, so you... What is that?
	Yeah, exactly.
	What is that?
	Exactly.
	Is it going to be the end?
	Is it going to be like in the Independence Day, where they get to zero?
	What's going to happen?
	So earlier tonight, I read the facts, and somebody said that's what it was.
	It's from Hail Mary, so... Well, I mean, I don't have a, you know, I can't point something at the stars to find that out, but from past experience, it was just a radio promotion.
	I'd say it's a safe bet.
	But I, you know me, I couldn't resist having fun with people.
	Yeah, yeah, I know.
	I mean, it worked on us the first time I heard it.
	You know, I thought, oh my God, the world's ending.
	And this is the countdown.
	Yeah, that's what I thought.
	World, world, we're all going to die when this thing ends.
	All right, well, thank you very much, dear.
	Okay.
	You take care.
	Yeah, in all likelihood, that is exactly what it is.
	But for lack of a better explanation, It sure sounded good.
	That Hail Mary frequency, right?
	We'll be right back.
	I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you
	And I think to myself, what a wonderful world I see skies of blue and clouds of white
	The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night.
	And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
	The colors of the rainbow.
	You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
	Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from January 1st, 1997.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	We're here.
	Hello, everybody.
	Here's one from Alabama.
	Art, don't forget the downside of polygamy as it used to be practiced by the Mormons.
	One man is expected to financially support multiple wives and all the children.
	Think about how much money you've got left over at the end of the month with one wife.
	Then try to imagine what it would be like with five or ten.
	That comes from Birmingham, Alabama.
	Absolutely right.
	Even worse than that.
	I mean, imagine the 5th or the 10th or the 20th 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.
	Transcribed by https://otter.ai uh... once again we're 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.
	webmaster at artbell.com.
	And you may see it up there.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	OK.
	I suspect the prediction time is over.
	It is.
	Well, can I give you one, even though it's over?
	Oh, sure.
	It won't be an official prediction.
	OK.
	By the way, I'm David, Portland, Oregon.
	Yes, David.
	And my prediction is Hillary Clinton will be charged or cited with contempt of Congress.
	If such a thing should occur, What do you think the president would do?
	That's a tough call for him.
	I don't know.
	He obviously isn't forced to resign.
	He wouldn't be forced to resign.
	He might have to.
	No, he wouldn't be forced to resign.
	But the question is, would he issue a pardon for his own life?
	And if he did, well, I guess, you know, it's his final term anyway.
	That would matter, but I mean it would be political suicide.
	He'd be in a tough spot.
	Yeah.
	But right now, you know, he's refused to talk about pardon for anybody.
	I know.
	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.
	I've wondered about that a lot.
	Yeah.
	Alright, thank you very much for the call, sir.
	Take care.
	I really have wondered about that.
	What a position to be in.
	in your very own life, charged with some serious offense.
	First time caller of the line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi Art, this is Troy.
	Hi Troy.
	From Birmingham.
	Yes sir.
	I just wanted to let you know that I'm a regular user on your FNET IRC channel.
	Oh yes.
	Were you part of the big battle?
	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 did want to mention to you that you kind of antagonized them when you started talking about us getting them back, and they're going to start trying it again pretty soon.
	Of course they will, but I mean, we've got so many out there.
	We've got an army.
	Right.
	Well, I hope so, and I'm glad to be part of that army.
	I just thought it was a low-life thing to do.
	It really is, and it's a real common thing.
	It happens a lot, but hopefully it's not going to be a big problem.
	Well, we can move large numbers of people on a moment's notice.
	I'm afraid that we just proved that point with my own chatroom.
	I crashed my own chatroom.
	I forget it said error 444 network disconnected.
	It stopped and I visualized this server out there in Southern California somewhere with smoke rising from it.
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi, how's it going?
	It's going.
	Oh, excellent.
	My name's Chris.
	I'm from Reading.
	Hi, Chris.
	And there's the guy who called earlier about the dreams that Yes.
	The dream interpretation?
	Ah, yes.
	That you took, kind of, as a roundabout way.
	I just wanted to say, 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.
	Reality.
	Like a deja vu.
	And what dreams have you had, pray tell?
	It's mostly just Common everyday occurrences.
	Nothing really spectacular.
	Nothing spectacular except that a couple times I had a dream that a friend of mine and I were in a, we showed up at a place together and when I woke up that morning I told him about it.
	And I said, remember I told you about this?
	Yeah.
	Because in about two or three months it will probably happen.
	And he was there and when it Happened, I had the deja vu experience, and I said, hey, remember when I told you this a couple months ago?
	And he said, hey, you're right.
	So I kind of think maybe people are able to see a little bit into their future.
	So is it going to rain six-legged frogs or what?
	I don't know about that, but if it comes to me in a dream and I walk outside my house and there are six-legged frogs, It might happen.
	All right, well, do me a favor, and if you foresee anything of that magnitude, get to us right away.
	Okay, great.
	Thank you.
	That's what it would rain these days, right?
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Yeah, all right.
	This is John in Greater Bay Area, California.
	Yes, sir.
	You had this seismologist back in the last week in June, I believe?
	Yes.
	He had predicted scale 6, I believe, in San Francisco.
	It was supposed to hit, I believe, July 4th or the first week of July.
	I've had so many on predictions so much that I don't recall that specifically, but OK.
	Well, the reason why I did it is because I had my little girl.
	She was coming up from Texas to visit me.
	Right.
	And she was supposed to come in July 4th, and I was kind of paranoid about it.
	Yeah, I've been listening to this guy named Mark Bell, and he had this guy predict a big earthquake here, and she got real scared.
	She didn't want to fly up, so I kind of had to tone it down a little bit.
	If I recall correctly though, that guy did predict a 95% accuracy that this was going to happen in the first week of July.
	Usually a seismologist would not predict something like that.
	Oh wait, he did.
	This guy was Adam San Jose and supposedly he had made a prediction before and he was working for some institute.
	You know what?
	Now I'm beginning to remember.
	Yes, I remember the seismologist.
	I don't remember the prediction.
	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.
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	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 It 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 Oort cloud as well and displacing the jet stream.
	And if the system, if the rogue system has an Oort cloud with up to a thousand comets
	could enter the solar system according to the Astronomy magazine
	of this month.
	A thousand comets?
	Yes, a thousand comets.
	God, what a great title for a book.
	Night of a Thousand Comments.
	We have been sending letters for over ten 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.
	We need to embark upon a more preventive measure.
	And this people themselves will have to initiate.
	Sir, I guarantee you, if a thousand comets hit the Earth, FEMA couldn't help at all.
	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've seen in increasing numbers.
	And the approach of a higher order could also be 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.
	All right, thank you very much.
	That could be.
	Heaven help us.
	I would send that directly to the webmaster, Keith, at webmaster at artbell.com.
	Webmaster at artbell.com.
	And if you have any spiffy artwork That you would like to submit for the new logo.
	That's the place to send it.
	Webmaster at Artbell.com.
	He really likes to get a lot of emails, too, by the way.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello, this is Mike Glendale.
	Hi, Mike.
	Yeah, I just wanted to comment on your earlier caller who wanted to predict a major earthquake in California, Southern California.
	Yes.
	And I think that's kind of a negative way to start out a new year and You know, I don't, you know, I don't think that I'm going to make a prediction here.
	I don't like to make predictions.
	That's cool.
	Everybody else does.
	Why not you?
	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, it can be done, but I would just recommend, I think that Mother Nature's in charge, and there's not a lot you can do about it, and I've got a lot more trust in natural phenomena 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.
	I believe in rainbows.
	Yeah, and then we're wrong!
	We're absolutely wrong, and it's easy to make conjecture predictions, but when you have to make the call, do we evacuate?
	Do we move people?
	Do they stay?
	Do we create a panic?
	Do we do this?
	Do we do that?
	And you have to be exactly right in your decision.
	You know, it's not something that you can just, you know, call in and then walk away from.
	Well, that's right.
	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 really, you know, it's a really bad way to start out the new year.
	Well, you know, people are always going to make those kind of predictions, and I think people take them in stride.
	I mean, people have been predicting California earthquakes for as long as I've been alive.
	But I have learned, as far as earthquakes are concerned, that there are actually two different types of earthquakes.
	There are those that go up and down.
	And back and forth, that's right.
	And they're, you know, and I think there's 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 got it.
	I think you need not repeat it again.
	I believe in rainbows, too.
	I've seen them.
	I've seen them.
	Happens a lot when it rains and the sun's out.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello there.
	No, you're not.
	East, east, east of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Well, good morning, Mr. Bell.
	Good morning, Mr. Culler.
	Where are you?
	Oh, this is Mike from Jacksonville, home of beautiful Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
	Oh, my birthplace.
	Your birthplace.
	Yes, sir.
	Another tar heel.
	And I would like to say Happy New Year from Toby, Missy, Callista, and Spot.
	Toby is currently 15 pounds of tuxedo cat sitting in my lap.
	Is Spot a dog?
	No.
	Spot is a pure white female kitten with one black spot directly between her ears.
	I guess you can name a cat Spot.
	It's a little... It's sort of heresy, but... Well, I mean, if Data could do it on Star Trek, why can't I?
	Yeah, that's right.
	I have just got through.
	I wanted to make a comment on a fact that you read at the very beginning of your show tonight about the states' rights.
	Oh, yes.
	Uh-huh.
	And there has been talk here in the South, as unusual as this may sound, Bill Clinton, basically with his attack on the tobacco producing states, geographically recreated the Confederacy.
	But as I listened to your predictions the other night, several civil wars throughout the world were predicted.
	I'm beginning to wonder if we're not about to see a revolution, a civil war, whatever you want to call it here in America.
	Think so?
	Think it's possible?
	Think it would be over tobacco?
	I don't think it would be over tobacco.
	I think it would be over states' rights.
	States' rights and individual rights.
	Well, there is going to be trouble.
	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.
	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 I'm very concerned about the way things are going, and I won't be at all surprised if something does happen within the next year or so.
	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... Alright, but here's the thing, sir.
	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.
	Let's hope so.
	Yeah, well, I do.
	I hope so.
	Thank you very much.
	And I do believe that, by the way.
	You will know when that has changed.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Oh, Art, I finally got a hold of you.
	And it's great.
	You know what I heard?
	What?
	I heard you read Ender's Game, right?
	Orson Scott Card.
	I read what?
	Ender's Game.
	Absolutely.
	One of my favorites.
	I just went through my second reading of the entire series.
	I'm going to have him on the air pretty soon.
	Really?
	Yep.
	As a matter of fact, I talked to Orson Scott Card about three months ago.
	Really?
	And I was supposed to get back to him and set up an interview, and I haven't done it yet, but I will.
	I sent you an email with his mailing address, hoping you would do that.
	Uh, well, I did that.
	I talked to him on the phone.
	Great.
	Do you have any... you don't have a date yet, though?
	Uh, no, but now that you've jogged me, uh, I... I think one of the greatest books ever written was Speaker for the Dead.
	Hmm.
	You like... you like to follow up Bender's game, huh?
	I actually liked it on its side.
	Uh-huh.
	And he wrote a fourth one.
	I don't know if you know that or not.
	Which was?
	The Children of the Mind.
	No, that one I have not read.
	I recommend it.
	I really recommend it.
	Alright.
	The series, you probably already know, it's good.
	Oh, yes.
	Any more books about Ender have to be read.
	There's no question about it.
	I agree with you.
	Alright, my friend, listen.
	I'm afraid that my program appears to be ending.
	Does that mean I get the honors?
	It does indeed.
	I am so happy.
	Do it.
	Good night, America.
	All right, that's it.
	Good night, America.
	Good night, Canada.
	Good night, various other nations that are listening around the world.
	And good night, cosmos.
	And it'll be cool to see what happens when the countdown ends.
	I'm sure it's just a stunt, everybody.
	Y'all have a good night.
	We'll see you tomorrow from the high desert.

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