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July 15, 1997 - Art Bell

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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Open Lines with Time Traveler Hotline (hour 1)

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art bell ▲ ● ▼		is east of the Rockies, and you're listening to AM 1500 KSTP.
unidentified		Music
art bell ▲ ● ▼		From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening or good morning, as the case may be, across all these many prolific time zones from the Hawaiian and Tejan Island chains and who knows what all else in the Pacific, eastward over flyover country to the Caribbean and the U.S. Virgin Islands, south into South America, north to the Pole in Canada on the way.
		Somebody wanted me to mention that.
		Good morning, everybody from the high deserts.
		This is Coast to Coast AM, and I'm Mark Bell.
		It's great to be here tonight.
		There is literally nothing of any substantial news to talk about, and so we're not.
		I will roll past some of it and give you an idea of what is there, the Steam Piggins, and then we will see what kind of trouble we can get into with open lines.
		And we'll just do open lines tonight.
		And I intentionally picked a night when there wasn't very much to talk about.
		We, of course, broke some records last night on the net in terms of hits and had quite an extravagance in the first two hours from Phoenix.
		I believe the first time that we have ever done, anybody's done anything quite like that.
		We had split screen up with a national broadcast so you could actually see what was occurring in Phoenix and here at the same time.
		Nevertheless, I got email today from a guy that said, your so-called show with Richard and Francis and all the rest, and all those electronic sounds you used to make it sound like they were in Arizona.
		Well, it was the best laugh I've had in a long time.
		Whoever it is, they simply did not believe that we really did the program last night as we did it.
		And there's no way to convince them, so I guess we'll just leave that there.
		Gianni Varaci is dead.
		He was a fashion designer in Miami.
		The FBI and now Miami police have named alleged serial killer Andrew Kuninen as their only suspect, and they have quite a bit of evidence pointed in his direction.
		And they're looking hard for him now who's shot twice in the head in what first appeared to be an absolutely senseless murder, and probably is, in a sense.
		In other words, if this is a serial killer who has done this, it is to most of us senseless in some twisted, you know, unknown way.
		I'm sure this man had motive in his own mind for what he did.
		May have been related to homosexual things one way or the other.
		I don't know.
		We'll see.
		But tragedy was just on the way out to get a newspaper, and I guess on the way back in, actually, from having his one little routine of getting a newspaper, and he was shot in the head once and then hit the ground and shot in the head twice, and the killer literally walked away.
		It looks as though our American astronaut, Michael Fole, may be required to do emergency duty to fix Mir.
		The commander of the Russian space station is having heart trouble, and he says or is suggesting to the ground controllers in Russia that he is not up to the job and can't do it.
		And so the Russians have asked NASA if Michael Fole could be pressed into emergency service.
		And it's going to be a very dangerous spacewalk into a very dark, packed area in a pressure suit where there may be jagged edges and great danger.
		So everybody's thinking real hard about that one.
		The Mars rover is now back on track again after once again having its computer reset.
		That's occurred now, I believe, three times.
		And it may continue to occur.
		They're saying now that little six-wheeled rover that could may operate on the Martian surface indefinitely, virtually indefinitely, sending back image and analysis of rock after rock after rock.
		And so far, what we basically have discerned is, with regard to where they have landed on Mars, that there are red rocks there.
		And I really don't know what else we've discerned.
		Red rocks are.
		And maybe some of you are able to discern a benefit from having landed where they have landed that extends beyond the fact that they have discovered rocks.
		But I have not yet discerned it, so we found rocks, red rocks, and that could have been guessed on before we ever left Earth.
		While NASA is enjoying a highly successful robot mission to Mars, U.S. researchers say that a man's light there remains in the realm of science fiction.
		A National Research Council study released today says that major technology breakthroughs are needed before the first human ever steps on Mars.
		Study says sending a crew to Mars would take almost two years around trip.
		Ooh, it's a long time.
		And it would be difficult and costly to stock or replenish the necessary food, water, and oxygen.
		And that, folks, is just to get to Mars, the closest planet.
		So if we're ever going to be serious about going elsewhere, there's going to have to be a better way than conventional solid or liquid fueled rockets.
		And the relatively slow speeds.
		Obviously, we'd have to strain in more ways than one and have technological breakthroughs to get man to the closest planet.
		So there's got to be a better way, and I think eventually there is going to be a better way.
		Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr has declared that the Foster suicide was a suicide.
		USA Radio News during the break at the top of this hour just reported that North Korean soldiers and South Korean soldiers have been trading shots into and across the DMZ.
		USA Radio News saying that North Korean soldiers apparently have been crossing into the DMZ, not mass, but some of them, and shots are being fired.
		And of course, the Korean situation is liable to blow up at just about any moment.
		A man who was pronounced dead, this is from Cairo, Egypt, regained consciousness after spending 12 hours in a morgue refrigerator and began shouting for help.
		Say what?
		12 hours in a morgue refrigerator, and he woke up, began shouting for help.
		Upon discovering the man alive, a paramedic collapsed in shock and died.
		This is from the Delhi Al-Akabar.
		It was the cold of the refrigerator that revived this man inside the coffin where he was placed after being declared dead in a hospital 65 miles northwest of Cairo.
		Said he, quote, I opened my eyes but couldn't see anything.
		I moved my hands and pushed the coffin's lid to find myself among the dead.
		He shouted in vain for help, the report said.
		Eventually, three hospital aides who had come to remove his body found him alive.
	One of those employees fell over dead.
	Unbelievable.
	So I guess they better check more carefully on those they bring in and declare as dead.
	That was the Associated Press, by the way, that reported that.
	You may recall a difficulty at Hanford in Washington State.
	And do you remember at the time of the release, excuse me, of the incidents, the explosion, they said there is absolutely no, there was no release of any sort of radiation?
	Well, Seattle media reported indeed there was an explosion and a release of plutonium, albeit a small one, at Hanford in Washington state.
	I told you, and this is yet another example of the fact that they do not tell you everything.
	They simply don't tell you.
	When it occurs, when nuclear accidents of one sort or another occur, they inevitably deny everything.
	It seems to be the way they operate.
	And this obviously was not a big release, but there was a release of plutonium.
	And at the time they said no, and I said, you mark my words.
	You're going to find later on that there was.
	And sure enough, here we are.
	There was.
	Here is a Darwin Award candidate.
	A man apparently trying to bungee jump off a railroad trestle hit the ground and died Saturday because the cords he used were too long.
	Eric Barcia, 22, had a number of bungee cords.
	Now this is stupid to begin with.
	Stretchy little ropes with hooks on each end.
	You've seen them, metal hooks, which he therefore connected with tape, police said, so they wouldn't unhook.
	One end was tied to his feet and the other end to the bridge trestle.
	Besides the fact that when you use a bungee cord, I think it's ill-advised to use the little ones you buy in the store with the metal hooks on the end.
	Bad idea, right?
	He also did not properly measure the distance from the railroad trestle down to the ground.
	And so when he jumped, obviously he hit the ground before there was any bungee action whatsoever to bounce him and return him.
	His mother said that she does not understand it.
	He got good grades in school and was responsible at work, but apparently is not really able to discern distances very well.
	And besides, it's hard for me.
	Can you imagine somebody going out?
	You know, those are grocery store bungee cords, the ones with a little metal hook on the end where you hook one to the other.
	I use them to hold antenna feed lines away from my tower.
	And they regularly absorb too much desert sun and snap all by themselves.
	But to imagine a human being trying to be held above the ground after a jump by these is really too much.
	Anyway, Darwin Awards are generally given to those people who do the gene pool some sort of collective favor by bowing out in a silly, stupid way.
	Let me tell you for a second about GMX magnetic water Conditioning.
	Now, it was very interesting the other day.
	A talk show host that I very much respect was asked about magnetic water conditioning.
	And his comment was that there's no way in hell that magnets take minerals out of the water.
	And therefore, he concluded this was a gyp.
	It couldn't be true.
	Well, he was halfway right.
	And GMX is frequently explained incorrectly by people who are trying to sell it.
	What GMX does is not to remove anything from the water.
	Obviously, magnetic arrays that are clamped on the outside of a pipe are not going to remove anything from anything.
	They don't do that.
	The minerals are simply affected by the magnetics and the properties in some way changed so that the minerals no longer stick to anything.
	Pipes, glassware, cars, the white spots, pipes, your water heater, and on and on and on and on.
	All the damaging effects of hard water, a ring around the toilet, that sort of thing.
	All of that goes away.
	But it does not go away because the minerals have been removed from the water, which is the traditional method of trying to condition water using chemicals and machines and that sort of thing.
	So he was wrong.
	It works, and it works in a way that he has yet to grasp.
	So there you are.
	And moreover, we will guarantee it works, a 90-day money-back guarantee.
	Use it for 90 days.
	If you do not discern in that time that it does precisely what I say it does, you get your money back.
	The number to call is 1-800-406-0469.
	That's 1-800-406-0469 GMX, and that is how it works.
	Angels, that actually in itself is a good topic.
	Guardian angels?
	Angels of any sort.
	Do you believe in them?
	A man from Anniston, Alabama recently injured himself badly after he attempted to replace a tube-like fuse in his Chevy pickup, unfortunately, with a .22-caliber rifle bullet, which he used because it fit perfectly.
	Now, it is true, if you've looked in a modern car fuse box, you will see they have those short little fuses.
	And indeed, a .22 caliber rifle bullet would work.
	You could put it in there.
	Unfortunately, when electricity heated the bullet, it went off, shooting him in the knee.
	And of course, a knee injury being shot in the knee is one of the very areas that you would not want to be shot, of all the areas where you might be shot.
	Being shot in the knee is probably the most painful, terrible place to be shot.
	I think I'll put him over here in the candidate pile with the bungee cord stuff.
	All right.
	It's going to be open lines.
	I may be tempted tonight into opening by popular demand what I have dubbed the time line.
	If there are time travelers, if time travel is possible, then one must imagine whether it was invented some time ago secretly and is being used, or time travel is to be invented in our future, that there may well be here time travelers, here and now.
	And indeed, the last time, or I guess it was really the first time that I opened the timeline, we had many time travelers.
	In fact, the line rang constantly.
	So it leads me to believe that there is a chance there may be time travelers out there.
	And so maybe toward the top of the next hour, if the mood strikes, we will open the timeline.
	And we will see if there are some time travelers.
	Now, time travelers, of course, are intriguing because they can more or less tell us, if they're willing, without creating some sort of paradox, what is going to happen.
	And we had several during the last broadcast that did so and accurately predicted newspaper headlines and things like that.
	It was enough to give you the heebie-jeebies.
	But it was fun.
	And so I may do it again.
	In the meantime, open lines, anything you wish to talk about is fair game.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello there.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, turn your radio off, please.
		That's always number one.
		Get that sucker off right away.
		All right.
		Where are you calling from?
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Going once.
		Going twice.
		Go on.
		West of the Rockies or on the air.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hi.
		I was wondering if you ever had anybody on the show talk about elves.
		Elves?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Turn off your radio, please.
unidentified		I did.
unidentified		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Elves.
		You've never had any elves?
		No, we've talked about dwarf tossing, but not elves.
		Elves are...
		The paranormal type elf, right?
unidentified		Well, I don't know, a little green-sitted elf.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, no, but I mean, here you are, so what do you know about elves?
unidentified		Well, I saw one when I was younger.
unidentified		I wondered if anyone else had.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How do you know you saw an elf?
unidentified		Because I thought it was my own eyes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Describe it.
unidentified		Describe it?
unidentified		Okay, he was about a foot tall.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, one foot tall, really?
unidentified		About that, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's very short.
unidentified		And he was very tiny.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Okay, well, I can understand now what you're talking about.
		I was going to suggest that you had mistakenly seen a dwarf, but not at one foot.
unidentified		I don't think so.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Not at one foot.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, go ahead.
unidentified		One foot tall.
unidentified		And he had on the green suit that all little elves wear, little pointy shoes, and all that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Even the pointy shoes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And what was he doing?
unidentified		He was looking into a glass of water when I saw him.
		In a house?
		Yes.
		Huh.
		Mm-hmm.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Isn't there some old thing about catching an elf?
		If you can catch an elf, I believe I can't quite remember, but it may be that you get wishes or you can make the elf do your bidding somehow or another.
		Did you try and grab him?
unidentified		Heavens and all.
unidentified		I was scared to death of him.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's probably like seeing a green mouse, huh?
unidentified		No, it didn't look like a mouse.
		I knew what it was.
		I was just afraid of it.
		And my sister and I both saw it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, really?
		That's very impressive.
		Now, did the elf have a face?
unidentified		Yes, it did.
		Human-like?
		Yeah, very human-like.
		Like an old man.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		An old man.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where did this sighting occur?
unidentified		In Wisconsin.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wisconsin.
		And what happened?
		Did it walk away?
unidentified		No, it ran away.
		When we both...
		And we got up to go get our mother, of course, because we saw the elf.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Of course.
unidentified		And neither one of us wanted to stay alone or go along.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Did it say anything?
unidentified		No, it didn't say anything, but it ran.
unidentified		We had rabbits at the time, and it ran behind a bag of rabbits, so that's the last we saw of it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Holy mackerel, what a story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And you swear by all that's holy that that's a true story?
unidentified		Yes, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You really saw an elf.
unidentified		I really did.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, the next time you see one, if you ever do, try and grab the little guy.
unidentified		I'll do it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, all right.
		Thank you very much.
		Somebody can fill me in on that, I'm sure, but I believe there is benefit to catching an elf.
		As long as he doesn't bite you.
		From the high desert, this is CBC.
unidentified		CBC.
		Call our bell, toll free.
		West of the Rockies at 1-800-618-8255.
		1-800-618-8255.
		East of the Rockies at 1-800-825-5033.
		1-800-825-5033.
		This is the CBC Radio Network.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's what it is.
		Well, it shows you what I know.
		It was not elves that you are supposed to grab if you can.
		Those are leprechauns.
		My wife said those are leprechauns.
		And they, of course, then may lead you to a pot of gold or goodies or whatever.
		Elves, she advises me, are not to be trifled with.
		They're nasty little things, and they probably bite.
unidentified		Can't let me burn up, can't let me nasty, darling so weak of, it's a pain to be.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In an elf bite like a human bite, ask the guys who did the big fight the other day can be very serious.
		Human bite is very serious indeed.
		We carry a lot of nasty things in our mouths.
		Did you know that?
		Extended time real talk is a product that has been sort of off the market for about six months and unavailable and is now finally available again if you are tired of missing talk shows.
		This is, I assure you, the answer for you.
		It is, all at once, an AM-FM radio, and by the way, a doggone good one too.
		They have improved the selectivity and the sensitivity in the radio itself.
		It has all the features one might hope for, timed recording, AC power, or it runs on batteries, 10 memory presets, a built-in microphone and headphone jack.
		Now, it also has one incredible feature, and that is a one-quarter speed tape deck.
		Now, what does that mean?
		Well, it means, you see, recording voice does not require the normal speed.
		Recording voice can be done at a much slower speed and still render something totally listenable.
		And that's what this does.
		Instead of a 90-minute cassette, one side of which you would normally yield 45 minutes record time from, instead you get three hours record time.
		So in other words, you can set the timer.
		It comes on, records for three hours, and then automatically goes off.
unidentified		Pretty cool, huh?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know, for recording talk shows in the middle of the night, or if you're a night person in the middle of the day.
		And when you buy it, you get a free 110-minute, even longer, high-quality tape.
		I wonder how long that gives you, 110 minutes.
		Probably gives you moving on towards four hours on one side.
		The price delivered to your door is $149.95.
		That's real talk, and anybody who is into talk radio sure ought to own one of these.
		Actually, I've been using one I have on a daily basis now for about a year and a half, at least.
		Same tape, too, I might add.
		Just do it over and over, over and over again.
		The number to call is 1-800-522-8863.
		1-800-522-8863.
		The C. Crane Company.
		Now, Keys, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Hey, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		Welcome to the program.
		Turn your radio off, please.
unidentified		Okay, I got it off.
unidentified		I never thought I'd get through.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Anyway, go ahead.
unidentified		Okay.
		I've been listening for a while and I'm here.
		I was talking about the Roswell, the Roswell stuff, you know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		And I'm only 20 years old.
		I'm in college and stuff.
		But I sent in to the government on the Free Information Act.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You did?
unidentified		Yeah, I sent in just about every government agency there was, you know, NSA, CIA, FBI.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What'd you get back?
unidentified		Well, I got a lot of documents.
		They sent a whole lot back, and a lot of it wasn't the...
		But I did get a few that were pretty interesting.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, now I don't understand that.
		I mean, they had enough on Roswell to write a book.
		How come they didn't send you that stuff?
unidentified		Time compression.
unidentified		Yep.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So, I mean, why didn't you get some of that stuff?
unidentified		I don't know.
		I got one, though, that was interesting, and nobody ever said anything about it.
		It was from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and it said that it said something that, like, I mean, it was from a stack of files, I mean, like, documents I got.
		I said it didn't have anything to do with Roswell, but right there, plain as day, in the document, it was talking about Roswell, and it said that it was in the opinion of the Army that a vehicle like a flying saucer did exist.
		So it says right there, plain as day in the document.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Send me a copy.
unidentified		You want one?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, I do.
unidentified		My computer's down.
unidentified		I have it on a disk, but my computer is on the blink right now.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They do that.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're on Earth and Mars.
		All right, well, when you find a way, send it to me, and you can mail it, or you can send it as an attachment, an email, however you're able to get it to me.
		Seems to me as though I have heard a reference to what he is referring to, that there is some document out there that said, in the opinion of somebody or another, there are flying discs.
		And that may have been a document from Wright Pat.
		I'm not sure, but I've never, I've just heard about it.
		You know, I haven't seen it.
		Art, regarding the bungee jumper, has anybody considered that he was trying to commit suicide and make it look like an accident?
		John and St. Paul.
		That's a good point.
		That's a good point.
		I wonder if he had a big insurance policy.
		And if so, would it pay off?
		Yes, because they would regard this as an accident.
		They would not imagine he was trying to kill himself, dumb as it may have been.
		And so it might pay off.
		Now, of course, if he has no insurance, it would rule that motive out.
		First time call our line, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Hey, how you doing, Art?
		My name's Jim.
		I'm calling from San Bernardino.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, Jim.
unidentified		Hey, your bumper music at the beginning, was that UB40?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Wonderful.
unidentified		Love that song.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, me too.
unidentified		Great pick.
		Hey, Art, I was recently back in Austin, Texas at my brother's house, and there's a, I guess, a buzz around town back there that there's some sort of new type of animal resembling the chupacabra.
		It's like a cousin of the chupacabra.
		Have you by chance had anybody else call in about this particular?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, you're the first.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Bristol's elves, now cousin of chupacabra.
unidentified		Well, this one here, they've dubbed it, let's see if I can pronounce this right, chupa la vedga.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Which means cousin of the chupacabra?
unidentified		I guess so.
		Chupa la vedga.
		Anyway, it's supposed to eat snakes or something like that.
		I don't understand.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I like that a lot better.
		I mean, I don't...
		Something that goes after snakes?
		Yeah.
		I can imagine a certain affinity for that thing.
unidentified		It's like a spitting snake.
unidentified		I don't think they have spitting snakes out there at Chupa La Vedga.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't understand.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Snakes?
unidentified		They don't have any type of snakes that spit out there, do they?
unidentified		Like they do back in India?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I have no idea.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I didn't know that snakes spit.
unidentified		Well, I guess some snakes do, but I hope I'm pronouncing it right.
		A chupa.
		It seems to be us to write chupa la Vedga art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So somebody wants to call in about it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's been seen, photographed?
unidentified		Apparently it's been seen chomping on some spitten snakes of some sort.
		I wish I had more.
		Maybe I'll fact something to you.
		I think my brother may even have a picture of his boss had taken a picture of one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I would very much enjoy that.
unidentified		Okay, thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, I'll look forward to it.
		A relative of the chupacabra that eats spitten snakes.
		I did not know that snakes spit, nor am I aware of any natural predator for them.
		Until now, I guess.
		Wildguard Line, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Hi.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		Glad to get a hold of you here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Welcome, sir.
unidentified		This is Bernie over in Kennewick, Washington.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Nice and dry and warm.
		Say, that big UFO in Georgia last night, I never heard nothing more about it.
		We tuned CNN.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, then you weren't listening because...
		Oh, I see.
		Yes, I came back on that.
		Apparently was a false report.
		Oh, no.
		oh, yes, because I called the police station there and they had no reports.
		Now, that doesn't mean that whoever sent facts didn't see it, but the police station there had no reports, no massive number of reports.
unidentified		Oh, rats.
		Well, I guess I shouldn't be discouraged.
		It's less things to worry about.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		One less thing to worry about.
unidentified		I'd like to see you take on the oil companies one of these days.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, what would you see me do with the oil companies?
		I mean, I'm already in trouble with enough people.
		Why the oil companies?
		What do you want me to do to them?
unidentified		Well, because of all the fuel-saving gadgets that are out there that they keep on trying to not allow.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you know that under Shell Oil, they have more miles of shelves with carburetors and stuff on them than the Vatican has a secret files under the Vatican.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All lined up, shiny little carburetors.
unidentified		But what do they do with them?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely nothing.
		They're on the shelf.
		And the bodies of the people who produced them are in yet another room in suspension.
unidentified		I see.
unidentified		Well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So how was that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I did the best I could there.
unidentified		Well, okay.
unidentified		Well, I worry about you, you know, the possibility that you might be assassinated or something one of these days.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		By an oil company?
unidentified		No, by who knows what that doesn't like what you're broadcasting these days.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		These things are always possible.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But, you know, life goes on one day at a time.
unidentified		I suspect you've had some rather serious threats.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, you should see my FBI files real quick.
unidentified		Maybe someday you'll share some of those with us.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They're not that interesting.
		Usually, threats are written by very ignorant people who don't spell very well.
		Anyway, I've got to run.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much for the call.
		I've always thought about that.
		Anybody in the public light does.
		And of course, yesterday was a pretty good example of somebody who appeared to be shot for no discernible reason by apparently a serial killer.
		Well, you know, life goes on.
		Life goes on.
		And no matter what you say and how you say it, I have found that somebody out there violently disagrees with you.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Good evening, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good evening.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I am in Lake Zurich, Illinois.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, you're going to have to speak up good and loud for us.
unidentified		And I got hooked on you when you had a replay of the Sean David Morton five-hour show.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yes.
unidentified		And since then, I've been trying to catch up on all the Egyptology and a lot of Richard's ideas.
unidentified		I noticed a lot of the shows in the AudioNet archives from last fall are not there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, what happened was AudioNet had a disk drive crash that contained like a whole month's worth of shows.
		And these things do occur.
		So, yes, they're missing.
unidentified		Is it possible that you can maybe take some of the most important of those shows?
unidentified		Apparently, Richard had a thing about the Apollo emblem and the show on the pyramids.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
unidentified		And do those when you're away on your trips and replay those to get those back in the archives so those of us who want to catch up can do so?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I would imagine such a thing might be possible.
unidentified		Okay, I would appreciate that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'll be going to Egypt, and the way things are going with Egypt, I may not be coming back.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you may get to hear nothing but archive shows.
unidentified		We hope that doesn't happen.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I understand on good authority that my name, along with several others, is being bandied about in Egypt right now in not the best of terms.
unidentified		Has there been any reports on any of the people that Larry and Richard reported on getting in any kind of trouble yet or getting any scrutiny applied on them by?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, but nothing that I can peg down enough to report on to you right now with certainty, so I would rather not say what I don't know for sure.
unidentified		Well, I would love, obviously I think a lot of us would have loved to have heard the whole thing in Phoenix last night.
		Is there any possibility that something like that could be taped and rebroadcast?
		Because I felt like, you know, like the Masonic, I think the Masonic thing should be like an entire show, because that's an area that I know very little about, and it seems to be like that maybe is the crux of everything that's going on here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know I can't talk about the Masons.
unidentified		Why is that?
unidentified		I don't know that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You didn't know I was a 99th degree Mason.
unidentified		No, I didn't.
unidentified		Like I said, I've only been here three months since Sean David Morton.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, well.
		Maybe something like that could be arranged.
		Who knows?
		I appreciate your call, sir.
		Thank you.
		It's water under the bridge.
		Shows under the bridge.
		Shows already done.
		Masons.
		Actually, they're a pretty good group, I've heard.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hi, Art.
		It's Michelle.
		I'm calling from Orlando.
		Glad to have gotten through to you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Orlando, Florida.
unidentified		Yeah, listening to you on WWNZ.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How's the weather there?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is it really hot?
unidentified		Well, we had some rain today.
		It has been pretty hot, yeah.
		And then we get some really severe storms by the end of the afternoon.
		It's actually quite a common thing here.
		It was interesting for a while.
		I think they finally got their act together, but WNZ for a while was having a hard time adjusting to the hourly change to your program.
		But I called them and told them about it because I don't think it was something they were aware of.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, some stations, for example, have automation, and that needs to get all adjusted properly to the proper brakes, but it eventually gets done.
unidentified		Yeah, and it's great to hear at least four out of the five hours of your program, and you've been having some really good programs lately, especially with the Roswell programs.
		I was able to tape all of those.
		It's great now because I can tape all your programs.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to have quite a bit of open lines this week, but coming up Friday night, Saturday, Danian Brinkley is going to be here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're not going to want to miss that.
unidentified		Wow.
		Yeah, I mean, it's been great, and I just wanted to let you know that I'm still out here and I'm still listening and, you know, that kind of thing.
		So I hope you have a good trip to Egypt if I don't talk to you before then.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I bet you will.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That won't be until October.
unidentified		Yeah, and you're going to Alaska before then?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, August 6th, I think.
unidentified		I'll be going on a trip to Virginia this coming weekend.
unidentified		So we're all taking vacations.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's that time of year.
		Right.
		Thank you very much.
		From Orlando, Florida.
		By the way, if you would like to come along on the Egyptian trip, I think that there is an opening or two.
		Now, don't hold me to that because I'm really not sure.
		But you're certainly welcome to.
		Boy, you know, I can never remember the number that I'm supposed to give out.
		And isn't that just great?
		I've got a whole file full of stuff here, and whatever I want this number, I can't remember it.
		You would like to come on the Egyptian trip, you could probably come along.
		But not until I give you the number, so I'll sort of try to look for the number during a break.
		Total bummer.
		West of the Rockies, you're on here.
		Hi.
unidentified		Good evening, Mr. Bell.
unidentified		This is Robert in the San Joaquin Valley in California.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, Robert.
unidentified		I love your show.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
unidentified		I can't get enough of your show.
		I've got a few things.
		I'd like to end up on time travel, but I'd like to mention something about this lady that called earlier about the little elf.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yes.
unidentified		Remember P.T. Barnum's little time Tom Thom?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Tom Thumb Thompson.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Of course.
unidentified		Wasn't he under two foot?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He might have been.
unidentified		He was really short.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He might have been.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But I think something that's one foot in height and has little pointy toes and is wearing something green is probably an elf.
unidentified		Sounds like it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's what I thought.
unidentified		Also, did you hear about the talking cat?
		No.
		Yeah, I saw him on TV at an animal shelter in Medland, Texas.
		Surely you just.
		I'm serious.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And what could this cat say?
unidentified		The cat said hello.
		No.
		Yeah, it was on one of the TV programs.
		You call the shelter down there in Medland, Texas, and they'll tell you about him.
		A little black and white cat.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I can't see how.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Could get to.
unidentified		Hello?
		It said it.
		We heard it.
		It was on TV a little over a week ago.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Was it clear?
unidentified		Very clear.
unidentified		I mean, it just fibergassed at everyone, myself included.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'm afraid I would have to hear that to believe it.
unidentified		Right.
unidentified		About the time travel?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you think I should be opening the timeline?
unidentified		Well, remember the fellow that called the other night and he said he came back from somewhere around 2050?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		And he said there had been a change and that he's in San Francisco and that they did not permit, they had some kind of a super race at that point.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Yeah.
		He sounded credible.
		I mean, he seemed to believe what he was saying.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		There were genetically elite and genetically poor people.
		And that makes sense.
		I mean, look what we're doing with genetics, right?
unidentified		Exactly.
		I think opening the lines would be great.
		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's actually a little eerie.
unidentified		It is.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Thank you very much for the call.
		Take care.
		All right.
		I'm going to do it.
		That's all I needed, was a tiny bit of prodding.
		I now officially open the timeline.
		Timeline.
		Do you like that name?
		This is for people who claim to have traveled in time, not in their minds, but actually, physically in a machine with little levers and buttons and things, you know, kind of like from Orson Welles.
		In other words, time travelers who are here from another time.
		Maybe even another place, I don't know, but certainly another time.
		Time travelers who, without laying a paradox on us that might cause us all to wink out the minute it is broadcast, like that, who will tell us what's coming.
		That's what we're looking for.
		So, don't call unless you are a time traveler.
		My timeline is 702-727-1222.
		702-727-1222.
unidentified		Lead me this way.
unidentified		I can't rely.

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