Art Bell hosts Mr. Fidget, who claims his 1991 "linky fidgets"—simple bike chain devices—accelerate subjective time perception by redirecting stress into controlled motion, unlike passive habits like pen-tapping. He offers free mailings (with a SASE) or $5 fidgets, boasting thousands sold since childhood door-to-door hustles, including oil/gas investments at 19–21. Callers praise his stress-relief tools, from a Santa Cruz pirate radio operator to a Dallas waiter frustrated by mainstream media’s dishonesty, while Mr. Fidget counters with action-driven success over materialism. Skeptical Bell acknowledges the fidgets’ unique appeal but dismisses time-travel claims, though the segment ends with listeners demanding full rebroadcasts—hinting at deeper intrigue behind the show’s distribution. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert in the great American Southwest.
I bid you all good evening or good morning as the case may be, and welcome to another edition of Coast Coast AM, live overnight talk radio right here in the middle of the north or from the middle of the desert, extending out to the Hawaiian Peace Islands in the west, all the way east to the Caribbean, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, south, into South America, north, all the way to the Pole.
This is Coast Coast AM.
I'm Mark Bell.
Now, several items to get out to, and then we're going to explore Atlantis.
I always thought Atlantis was a non-existent place for myth.
I'm still not convinced.
And I've heard a lot about Atlantis, and I guess I know the mythology behind it a little bit.
It was here, there was a great series of earthquakes and earth disruptions, it is said, and Atlantis has disappeared.
With us tonight is Dr. Wendy Lockwood.
And I'll tell you all about her in a moment.
She knows, she says, about Atlantis.
So I guess we've got the right person.
Regarding fidgets, you may take a look.
I have taken about, oh, I don't know, several hours ago prior to airtime, I took, by the way, the fidgets arrived on time yesterday.
And I have taken the fidgets so that you might see them and took a quick shot with the studio cam.
So, the present photo up on the studio cam, part of the web site, is of fidgets.
And I'm going to have no more comment on fidgets, except to say go ahead and take a look.
And when I have finished evaluating them, I will have a comment for you.
So, that's the story on fidgets.
But anyway, for the next on and I'll leave it up there for the next couple hours or so.
So, anybody who wants to can get a look at what a fidget physically is configured like.
There are several different versions of fidgets up there.
To somebody tuning in for the very first time who's never heard this show before, you're going to think I've totally lost my mind.
What is a fidget?
A fidget is said to be a device to allow travel in time or to calm oneself or one may ascribe many properties to a fidget.
At any rate, I felt a need to get them up there for you to see.
And the quickest, dirtiest way to do that was to take a quick cam, you know, studio cam shot of the thing and just leave it there.
So for the next two hours, you can see fidgets.
Otherwise, I will evaluate them and let you know.
There is something else as well.
There was an article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune written, I think, on the 13th, which would have been yesterday.
And we grabbed that and put it right up on the website as well.
Christopher Ruddy is going to be writing an article that will be in the Pittsburgh paper with sort of a profile on me, and I'm going to be most interested to see what Mr. Ruddy has to say.
That's going to be interesting.
So in a moment, we're going to talk a little bit about Atlantis.
Now, Dr. Lockwood, actually, Dr. Wendy Lockwood, who's been a radio announcer?
A high-fashion model and art director, among many other pursuits, earned her Ph.D. in ministers degree in western Shambhala, located 7,000 feet, or at 7,000 foot level, in the Colorado Rockies and Ashram and Seminary College.
She lived there 11 years.
It was founded by the late and famous enlightened master, Dr. M. Duril, who was Tibetan-trained.
He was an Eastern philosopher, a psychologist, and medical doctor.
His successor was Dr. Trenton Tully, of whom I am the successor, meaning the good doctor.
Dr. Duril was, and I'm never going to be able to pronounce this, Akanaton, or something very close.
Dr. Tully was King Tut, cousins in ancient Egypt.
Dr. Tully was also the crown prince of Portugal and one of the little rascals of old-time movies.
The good doctor says she remembers Atlantis well, having worked there as a nuclear physicist.
This is all very, very interesting.
She says that the Atlanteans, Atlanteans, were blue-skinned and averaged, get this, 28 feet tall.
They lived for thousands of years here from Sonora, California, as Dr. Lockwood.
Let's go right back to the beginning with Atlantis.
To me, Doctor, Atlantis has always been probably nothing more than a myth that I've heard about, that Atlantis, if I've got it right, once existed and was a whole civilization and then, through a series of earthquakes or earth movements, was destroyed and sank beneath the sea.
And that is about my knowledge, or what I think I know, about Atlantis.
What can you tell me?
unidentified
Well, of course, there's no present archives to actually prove that Atlantis did exist, but there are secret archives through some of the mystery schools in the world who have the evidence that Atlantis existed.
The best way to prove Atlantis is to go back in time, of which I've done.
And I teach people how to do that.
And there's more than one way to go back in time.
One of them is a mystical way, and one is your fidget method.
And it is your contention, isn't it, that the eruption going on, the continuous eruption actually right now, of Montarade, is part of the beginning of the rising of Atlantis?
unidentified
I am absolutely certain of that.
Yes, I am.
Atlantis should begin to rise very soon.
They should be able to go out on boats and begin to survey the sea bottom and see that it's rising.
Did South America at that time and North America as we know them exist?
unidentified
Yes, it did exist, but it was shaped differently because the great upheavals that happened during the double atomic war that happened, which caused the Earth shift, created terrible, terrible upheavals in the world.
There was a lot of sinking and rising of lands, and the whole landscape of the world was totally reformed.
The Amazon Valley was a great inland sea at one time.
My guest is Dr. Wendy Lockwood, and we are talking about Atlantis and things related.
And it is, at the same time, troubling and interesting.
The temptation is to say this is some put-together, cobbled-together, sort of Eastern-Western mishmash of belief systems that doesn't make any sense, but you've got to stop for a moment and listen closely.
Because, you know, you could be wrong.
That's the way I look at these things.
A very, very interesting.
we'll get back to it in a moment the Back now to my guest, Dr. Lockwood.
This is from James in Nashville, who said, I paraphrased what he said.
He says, Art, this is all convoluted BS.
She has done nothing more than take similar elements of both Western and Eastern mysticism and incorporated them into a set of beliefs to fit her fancy.
What we need here is proof in any form or fashion.
How do you respond to that?
unidentified
Okay, I did give methods of proof.
I told you to get out there and research, and you're going to find the correlating.
Well, you start, you go into the libraries and get yourself some information on the secret societies of the world.
I'm not talking about what's happened to the Masons and all like that.
I'm talking about some of the other societies, and a lot of them will have some of the ancient teachings.
Many of them have their own publishing companies.
The society that the Philosophical Society, which was led by Dr. Helen Blavatsky, back used someplace.
But the Philosophical Society, the secret societies, you will find that they have preserved a lot of the ancient teachings in very excellent book form.
That's one excellent way to look for them.
And then go ahead and correlate materially, mentally, everything you can find.
Ancient Greece, the entire Greek alphabet is the story of the rise, or let's say the beginning, the rise, and the fall of Atlantis.
First of all, I'm a remote sensor, and it's my personal belief that beneath the earth we're renting out, or not we are, but another alien form is renting out a very gigantic warehouse, but a very small percentage of it, to a lower life form biological robot, and that these are the ones that do most of the work and run around, and we see their UFOs most of the time.
All right, Doctor, in the southwest, particularly in the Talos area, there has been a noted hum coming from the earth.
A loud hum.
It's bothered a lot of people.
Actually, here in Nevada, I think I've told this story several times, but I had a very good friend over on the other side of the very valley that I live in here.
It's called the Perump Valley.
And he built a porch.
And when he did, he sunk the pillars for the porch into the earth as support.
And when he did that, every single day, day in and day out, night in and night out, worst of all, there was a hum and a vibration that vibrated his whole home to the degree that he couldn't sleep.
In my own, it's just an educated guess, there's probably some pretty vast caverns down there, probably just loaded with great computer-type machines that are casting off this hum.
It may be something deliberate to, it may be something related to implants and the people on the surface.
It may be some kind of a conspiracy to just break us down.
Certain sounds can have a damaging effect on our body, I even think.
I've been hearing about what you're saying about Atlantis and all that, and I believe you wholeheartedly.
Thank you, dear.
Do you think that some of your teachings would outline the weather pattern that's fixing the hit?
Well, everything is tied in.
The weather patterns are all part of the shift of the Earth's axis, which is beginning to be.
Well, I mean, do you think if they could decipher it down to where they could show the weather pattern being constant with the weather that's happening, they could decipher a way that we could unite as one, as humanity, and possibly survive what's next to happen?
This is going to be kind of on an individual basis what we're going to be doing.
You know, each man is on their own.
The weather pattern, of course, is an indication of the great changes that are coming.
We're getting a lot of help.
They're beyond our five senses.
There are beings who are helping us that we cannot see with our five senses, but we're getting tremendous help, every single one of us, including art.
And they're going to help us evolve and help us have this awareness, guide us to sources of information and people who can give them the truth to help them survive the great cataclysms that are coming.
And you're saying these will begin within a couple of years.
unidentified
Within a couple of years.
In fact, in my publication, I have Countdown on it.
Countdown till 1999.
We have 16 months to go.
1999 begins the deterioration of Earth.
But people should not fear.
They should go within and find the God that they have acquainted themselves with and become better acquainted with that and find an inner calm and realize that in order to improve anything and to recreate something, there has to be a myth made and there has to be a lot of change happening.
Yeah, we hear something in Canada and we hear something in the South Pacific and various places like that.
The safest place is the Colorado Rockies, or the Colorado Rockies.
And that is because Colorado has very few earthquake falls, for one thing.
And the Rockies will rise higher.
They will not sink.
There's going to be a lot of sinking and rising of lands during the earthquakes.
And combined with a lot of chaotic other things going on in the world among the nations and the peoples, there's going to be an inner and outer war happening.
In other words, as I listen to this doctor, I tend to reject those people who say this is absolute baloney because too many times what has been said to be absolute baloney turns out to be tomorrow's truth.
So I'm sitting here and listening.
You ask me, do I believe, do I know it to be true?
If I've learned anything, I've learned not to reject things out of hand.
And I certainly don't reject all of this out of hand.
A lot of it is supported by geologic knowledge that is just now being discovered.
I mean, gosh, folks, pyramids under the sea, near Japan, pyramids all over this continent, in the southwest, in South America, and the ones we know about that we can examine and walk in in Egypt.
So, you know, there's a lot of potential support for all of this, but in a way, I'm with that caller, beings under earth and all the rest of it.
I have a tough time with it.
But you're not the first guest, Doctor, to come along and say it.
Believe me, you're not the first.
So I'm open-minded about it.
unidentified
That's fine.
I can bring you some references, give your references to read.
Not there, nor am I prepared to accept what I heard as plausible in my own mind right now.
So it's somewhere in between, intrigued.
She sounded very self-assured.
And so I listened to different things.
And for those of you joining us at this hour, Dr. Wendy Lockwood was here talking about Atlantis.
And what once was and what is now below our Earth.
Something to definitely think about.
Tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night, we're going to go in a different direction.
And Kathy Keaton is going to be here.
Now, you may not know who Kathy Keaton is.
she is bob guccioni's wife kathy keaton had Had or has or is in remission with a very serious cancer that was just about to kill her.
And I know that many of you have been asking and waiting for her to arrive on the air and she will be here indeed tomorrow night.
Following Kathy Keaton tomorrow night.
Am I telling the truth about that?
Let's see.
Ah, yes, I am.
No, I'm not.
She'll be here Friday night, Saturday.
See, I've got it all mixed up.
Friday night, Saturday.
Kathy Keaton will be on first.
And then Dr. J. Gordon Melton will be here.
Dr. Melton will be talking about vampires.
Vampires.
He is a director for the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California.
Was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, graduated from Birmingham Southern College, has pastored churches in Indiana and Illinois.
And he's going to be here talking about vampires.
Interesting, huh?
So Kathy Keaton, and we've got a lot to ask her, a very great deal to ask her.
And then Dr. J. Gordon Melton.
That'll be probably around midnight.
You know, I'm sort of giving you guesses as we go here.
So that's some of what I've got lined up.
Actually, that will be tomorrow night.
See, I'm missing a day.
By the way, if you would like to see what a fidget looks like, the only quick and dirty way I could think to do it was to take a studio cam photo of it.
And so if you go up there now, and I'm going to leave it up there for you for about another half hour, all right, on the website, go to the website and just click on where it says studio cam.
Normally you see a picture of my mug sitting here doing the program.
What you will see is a quick and dirty shot of the fidgets.
Yes, the fidgets arrived.
Isn't that strange?
I thought there was a day between now and Friday night Saturday.
Of course, as you know, I was not here last night.
So indeed, tomorrow night is Friday night, Saturday morning.
And so I was right the first time around.
Kathy Heaton and Jay Gordon Melton.
It should be a very interesting evening, as will the balance of this, which will be open lines.
The End All right, UPS and the Teamsters continue to talk, and that's a good sign.
There are some very small signs of movement.
UPS, for example, may be flexible on its dispute with the union over pensions.
But he also said, the company rep, that the final offer is on the table, and yet indicating they might be open to some change.
So everybody crossed their fingers because this strike needs to end.
But we have discussed that to no end here.
Here's what I think I would like to talk to you about.
A federal judge in Denver Thursday formally sentenced Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh to death by injection.
McVeigh, who has rarely spoken in public, was allowed to speak before the sentencing and quoted the late Supreme Court Justice Lewis Brandeis as saying, quote, here's what I want to talk about, quote, our government is the hope of an omnipotent teacher for good or ill, and it teaches the whole people by its example.
End quote.
McVeigh's attorneys would not comment on why he quoted Brandeis.
In my opinion, that quote used by McVeigh as the only thing he said when he got the death sentence is Mr. McVeigh's way of saying the government made me do it.
Isn't that what he was saying here?
Isn't that what this is all about?
The government made me do it.
Our government is a hope, an omnipotent teacher for good and will.
Ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
Isn't that the same as saying the government made me do it?
I think that's exactly what he's saying.
The government made me do it.
Do you see anything deeper?
Do you see it as some reason why he should not be receiving the death penalty for what he did?
It is interesting that was his only comment.
And in it, that's what I find.
He's probably referring to many things the government has done with Waco, in his mind, being the last straw.
And so quoting Justice Brandeis is a way of saying, I did it to get back at the government.
And, you know, well, here's, you want me to break it down to you?
I mean, do you want me to tell you what I do?
I mean, because if I do, I won't be able to do it anymore.
You've got to give me my word.
You'll call me at that number that I sent you and give me a number where I can get in because once I tell people this, you're going to have 100 people out doing it.
And God only knows what will happen to the phone company.
No, if there is some interesting method for you to get in, I don't really want to have it on the air because you're right, the phone company will just go absolutely crackers.
A friend of mine, an artist named Matt down in Phoenix, drew that whole comic book for me just for a set of fidgets.
He loved it so much.
He spent hours and hours to put that together.
And, you know, all the aliens are fictitious.
It has little aliens in there, and it says, like, little did the human know the forces that have been set into motion, although he would soon unfold them himself.
It was all, you know, just we were trying to find a funny way to portray them.
And we figured that since they're all made with circles, there's probably no aliens that wouldn't understand something simple like this.
You know, it couldn't escape them.
You know, it's just us silly humans that don't understand how things work.
In 1991, I was riding my bicycle and my chain broke.
I was on my way to a meeting.
When I replaced the chain, it was a little couple links too long.
So I trimmed those two links out, I put them in my pocket, I fixed the chain, and I went to the meeting with greasy hands late.
Got into the meeting, I'm sitting in there, I'm just at the boring meeting, I'm fidgeting around in my pocket, I find these links, and I just start pulling them out, and I'm just looking at them and just fidgeting.
And I'm looking at Einstein's law.
If you take the keyring out of the simple fidget, you have just the three links of chain, and you have a little cause and effect thing.
You know, you bang one into the other, and it flips back and forth and whatnot.
I mean, I saw that little spot on the TV the other day and it really gave me a good idea.
I was glad to see that as my fidgets were going out to you because it gave me an idea of who they were going to physically in addition to, you know, just your sound.
You see, because we have these stresses on us, and we all fidget in some way.
We play with the material of our clothing.
We bite our nails.
We twirl our hair.
We pick our nose and point out our ear.
We've got a lot of things we do for stress.
But the key is we need to activate something.
We need circumstances in our control when there are other circumstances outside of our control.
And that, I think, is the secret to the fidget.
It's circumstances in your control.
If you're waiting in line or in traffic, if you've got a fidget, at least you can distract your mind to the fact that you're being told to wait.
And that is the secret to me.
Now, the wing nuts, and I hate to call them that, but people who say that they went back to 1986 and ended up in a whole different room or whatever, God help these people, because I don't know about that.
I've never left this time zone or anything like that.
But I have had the most stressful times in my life relieved by having something to put that negative energy into the stress and the waiting.
And I wanted to say something in regard to the Tuesday night call.
You asked, wait, let me say this one thing.
It's very important.
You asked, you know, did I want to get rich or whatever?
And I ended up with saying, well, I want to be wealthy.
And then you cut me off.
And what I mean there is I want a wealth of opportunity.
You see, true wealth is a wealth of opportunity.
The man who has a million dollars has a million things to do with it and a million people after him to get it.
Real wealth is the guy who has a dollar and has a million places to put it at his convenience.
That's my power because I can make a dollar any time with my fidget.
People show up out of nowhere to say, hey, do you have one of those fidgets?
And there's my dollar for my pizza.
It won't always be like that in my life, but that to me is my wealth.
It's a wealth of opportunity.
When I walk by somebody and they're sitting on the ground and saying, hungry, we'll work for food, if I give them a fidget, I give them something that empowers them to at least have something to do.
So then you are really suggesting that the fidget has unique properties in the sense that it alters your present reality in a way that sitting here with a pen or sitting here and just fooling with your clothing or whatever else you might do to fidget otherwise.
So as far as the time travel, I don't know that you can go forward and backward in time, but I know, and as I said the other night on the air, that you can make the stressful times that you're in more comfortable by having a fidget.
And you'll notice as you go through these broadcasts, if you fidget a little bit, the time will go a little bit quicker.
And it is unique that you would talk about stress right now because I have more stress than you can possibly imagine, a lot of it which I can't talk about.
But I have a great deal of stress.
And I had an interesting encounter which I was not prepared to talk about tonight with regard to your fidgets.
Plural.
I would like to allow the audience to ask you some questions.
I could go through a list of musicians that would blow your mind, Art.
Jerry Garcia, The Dead, David Wilcox, Point Ed Pondering, Acoustic Junction, The Samples, Merle Saunders, George Thorgood, Pato Bonton, shook his hand, gave him a fidget.
Some of these people got them directly from me.
Some got them through their promoters and their channels.
Anytime I go to a concert, the act gets a fidget on me.
And I'll tell you what, Art, I've never paid for a concert.
The first concert I ever went to was free.
I snuck into Elvis, and ever since then, I've been going to concerts for free.
I am because all of this is almost impossible to have occurred.
From the first phone call I got from him to the discussion of fidgets to the arrival of fidgets to his being able to get through tonight, first time out of the chute like that, to people like you coming by now.
It's all a little much for me.
unidentified
I didn't hear it on Friday.
I did hear about it Tuesday night.
He described how to make one.
I said, you know, I've got to make one of those.
And then I didn't know he was in Santa Cruz.
And when he came on tonight, I'm going, oh, this is insane.
I've got to see if I can find him.
I didn't even get out of the car.
I mean, it's like, you know, normally I take my uniform off because, you know, I feel like a scout.
Yesterday when they came in, we put them, we, of course, well, actually, I don't even know if I'm ready to go into that right Now, but cats like fidgets.
I can tell you that much.
Two of them disappeared, and I thought, oh my god.
But it was my cats.
How they managed to carry away these things, I don't know, but they did.
What I would like to do is, I guess, let you talk to my audience and let them ask questions.
All right.
Listen, everybody, for a little while longer, I'm going to leave this photograph up on the studio cam of the fidgets.
I put it up there prior to airtime.
And so let's just go to the phone and see what happens.
People showing up here offering to put me on the web.
And by the way, we had a guy stop by with a digital camera, and he's going to go home and he'll email you some pictures, some JPEGs of this whole thing.
Me standing at the payphone, Scoutmaster, the whole shebang.
And oh, by the way, Art, too, some of these photos, I don't know what you're going to get or not.
I'm trying to kind of reserve my physical image.
Okay, I want to be a cartoon character, okay?
Because I want to be able to go into Denny's in five years and get a grand slam over medium with all bacon without having people go, it's the fidget guy, you know?
And so I'll be cartoon, just like in the comic book, my voice and my persona will always be there.
you don't want to be a celebrity well i'm a part of that time But in other words, you want to be able to walk around the streets without everybody going, ooh, ooh, the fidget guy, right?
Yeah, I got several thousand in stock right now, but it's going to take some doing.
Here's what I'm going to do, is I'm going to align myself with some kind of company.
Whatever company gives me the best offer to produce and distribute these fidgets, okay?
I'll let them do it.
I'll promote them.
But I'm going to the nonprofit sector.
I want to see what benefit these fidgets can be for people in traumatic scenarios.
I was dropped off by my third set of foster parents at a group home when I was 16 because they were unhappy with my behavior and unwilling to go through what it took to help me.
They called my father in the next morning, and the principal said, you know, we just can't have your son leaving school like this.
And my dad said, well, if you can't make it interesting enough for him to want to be here, there's not much I can do to keep him here.
And that was the beginning of a saga that spans school in Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, and Colorado before I was 10 years old.
I told him, and he said that it was a digital photograph.
I understand.
Yeah, my philosophy.
Art, boy, I told you this on my very first call I ever called into your program.
I called in under the alias of Sam, and I told you that I really felt that if everybody in this world would just leave each place a little bit better than they found it, the world would be a better place to live in.
That's my philosophy, is take responsibility for your own actions.
Don't expect somebody else to clean up after you.
And if you put that little extra bit of effort out, you'll be welcome more places than you can possibly get to.
That's my personal experience.
You know, I believe that some sort of God higher power runs this planet.
And I think the more I define it, the more I limit it.
I was sitting here thinking when you got through, through the break, through the news, all my lines were ringing.
They always are.
They're all lit up all the time.
There's between 10 and 12 million listeners out there in almost 380 markets, radio markets, nationwide and beyond the shores, well beyond and the odds of any person getting through at any time have got well they've got to be at least a million to one like a million to one I mean we get the 800 line reports that tell us how many people are trying to get through in a month
that make it and don't make it they issue those reports so I'm telling you right now the odds have got to be a million to one that you could have made it through like that I don't I'm sitting here I've known I could do it for five years Art and I've just been waiting for the moment and I've been preparing myself and see this technology is going to be critical to humanity in a way because it doesn't care what race you are, it doesn't care what your sexual ideology is, it doesn't care what your experiential background is.
Well what I want to do, because there's a lot of people that want to buy fidgets and pay a fair price, and I've experienced this in the last six years, I'm going to find a format in which there's a company that I work with as a consultant or as the creator of the devices in a consulting manner, not in a hands-on logistical management.
See, I run away from numbers.
I'm afraid of 2 and 5, even though I know it's 7 and times 2 is 14.
I'm afraid of that because it limits a certain part of my brain I depend on for creativity.
So I'm going to go into the nonprofit field and earn a salary for my work and have my costs of doing business paid and operate in a philanthropic manner to help people who've gone through the stuff that I've gone through.
I'm a survivor of three sets of foster parents in addition to my real parents.
I've been on the road since I was four years old.
I've been on the road by myself since I was 16 and I'm 29 years old.
I don't have any answers.
I've got a lot of questions.
I've got a lot of experiences.
I can give traffic directions in 10 states, you know.
Well, my father started me out on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, selling pictures of the presidents on their birthdays, these little lithograph prints.
When I was five years old, he took me to the coffee shop every day instead of putting me in kindergarten.
So I learned to communicate with adults at that young age.
And then after that, I did all sorts of stuff.
I followed the window washer around.
I got a job at a movie theater and worked as the ticket taker.
I sold at one point oil and gas limited partnerships.
Another point I sold the little gliders you throw and they come back to you in a circle.
Another time I, oh God, you name it.
I've sold the chamois, the supercar polish.
I've sold the swivel sprayers.
There are a million people out there that have contacted me and seen me.
I've been at the L.A. County Fair in Pomona, the fourth biggest fair in the world for the last six years.
People go right by my booth.
And as a matter of fact, I've earned quite the reputation as a killer salesperson down there because one day I was pitching in Pomona at the L.A. County Fair and this lady keeled over in front of me and had a heart attack right in front of my booth.
Now, if somebody's behavior doesn't affect you poorly, it may not enrich you, but it doesn't hurt you.
doesn't hurt me well what i'm saying is it could judge somebody based on anything if you everybody is doing the best that they can in this world okay Well, listen to me for just one second, okay?
Sure.
You've got people making decisions.
The guy who breaks in the car and takes the stereo, it's a wrong action, okay?
But somehow in his twisted mind, he felt that that was the correct action.
That is a central programming error that we need to help people change.
I said, what did you do today to make a direct influence in your community, to make a difference, to make things better in your world right there on your block?
unidentified
I try to follow the teachings.
I'm not always successful, but I try at least to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.
I can agree, although there have been times in my life when I didn't understand that as a person, when I made actions that I regret today, although I've learned and gone back and changed my actions.
Well, I guess this sometimes is what happens when you just do radio.
Good morning, everybody.
We're actually talking with the fidget dying, and I still have on my studio cam site pictures of five fidgets that I have received, that I received actually yesterday.
And there is a story that goes with what occurred yesterday that I'm not prepared to tell at the moment.
Thank you.
But for some reason, the fidget guy is really interesting, and I'll let you continue to interact with him as long as there seems to be a reason to do it.
If there is.
And somehow I feel there is.
And I, you know what?
I think that he answered the last caller pretty well, too.
Since, I mean, here's, you need to read that first page.
As a matter of fact, I'd give you permission, if you care to, to scan the first page of the comic book and put that on the web because it explains real clearly what happened.
Tell the guy with the digital, if he's got a digital camera, then he can go home right now and he can email Keith as an attachment, and Keith can get it up probably before we're even done talking.
And I was wondering if you're still negotiating with the stations here, like you had mentioned, or what was happening with this?
Yes, we are.
That's great.
I'm tired of listening to distant stations?
Yes.
Okay.
I've called you a few times before.
I am from Meadville, Pennsylvania, but now I've moved to Pittsburgh.
I just wanted to say to the Fidget guy that that person who called was not very representative of Christianity, and I think what he's doing is really interesting and intriguing.
If you had been born and showed up in life, and by the time you were four, your parents hit the road, and by the time you were ten, you'd been to school in five states more than once, and then you had three sets of foster parents, plus your real parents, and then the last set kicked you out when you were 16, and you spent 10 years on the road on the street learning lessons of life the hard way, wouldn't you feel a little bit ambiguous?
unidentified
Well, I tell you what, that almost describes my husband's life.
I bet the two of us could learn something from each other because you have the consistency that I need in order to be able to want to show up in this world on a daily basis.
And I may have the diversity that you need in order to be able to look at things from not always the same way.
unidentified
Well, this is very true.
I found that with my husband that I'm married to now.
We've been married four years.
And he has opened my mind.
Usually I wasn't just grounded in logic and rationality.
I was buried up to my eyeballs in it.
And in just a little over a year, I have been opened up to so many different experiences.
The Ours of Crystals, the powers of the mind.
I mean, it is just totally mind-boggling.
Contact with ETs, which I won't get into that because that's nanny-nanny.
Let me describe to you how to get your own darn fidget, okay?
Because there's 6 billion people in the world, and if everybody wants a fidget, that's too bad, because I'm not going to work my fingers to a bloody sub making fidgets.
I'm going to work on a way to do it, all you've got to do is go into the bike shop near you and say, hey, look, bud, I need some bike chain.
I want one speed bike chain.
I want three links.
I want two roller links and I want one pin link, please.
Yeah, two roller links, one pin link, and then all you've got to do is get a one-inch keyring, take the three links of chain, hook one end to the keyring, loop it around, hook the other end to the key ring, and then put the keyring in the middle there, and you'll have a fidget.
All right, but see, what you sent me, these are far more complex than that.
Now, there may be a keyring here, but there are many, many circles within and little spacers, and it's hard to describe, really, frankly, to the audience.
I suppose we can get some pictures up.
But this is far more complex than what you just described.
Yeah, I was just giving her the basics, you know, the first one.
And what happened, Art, is as I started taking this bike chain apart, I started saving the parts.
And I'll share a little secret.
Between the ages of 10 and 13, I had the joy in my life, actually, of living with an ex-division chief from the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder.
and he taught me how to fabricate.
He taught me in his shop how to use a lathe, how to use a drill press, how to use the rip saw, how to Yeah, he was an incredible fabricator.
The man could make anything to any specifications.
And so I learned to make things real young.
And then as time has gone on, most people look at a, oh, let's see here.
I'm looking at this payphone.
Most people just see a darn payphone buttons and a receiver.
Well, I'm looking at how the thing is attached and the rivets and the screws that hold it together and how thick the plexiglass is and what the mill of the vinyl is.
That's my analytical mind, and it's a blessing and a curse.
It's a blessing because very rarely do I get fooled by an object, and it's a curse because very rarely can I let an object go by without trying to understand it.
It's people like you that hold the world together.
And that's what all the people in the world that think they know what other people need to believe have to learn is that sometimes you just have to ask.
And we do have more similarities than we have differences.
And until we can get over that, we're in trouble.
Until we can get over it.
unidentified
You sound like an all right guy.
I'd like to meet you someday.
But I'm stuck here.
And art, we really appreciate your show out here all night.
Easter of the Rockies, you're on the air with Mr. Fidget.
unidentified
Hi.
Yeah, I think this whole fidget thing sounds really interesting, but the one thing I'm sorry about is that the confusion over whether or not fidgets will make time travel happen.
I've never left and gone back a year or forward a year, but I have had instances.
Oh, well, this will be fun.
I was issued a ticket by some security officers a couple weeks ago, two months.
It was on the 24th of January.
And these guys violated my federal civil rights, and I've got some lawsuit stuff going with that.
And I'm not going to mention the business or anything.
But the long and short of it is the security guard that wrote me out the ticket was so confused at the time, there were five date locations on the tickets that he gave me, and four of them said 6247 with a line through it, 0.
1970.
The only date on the whole ticket that had the accurate date was the court date, which was 1997.
I showed up, Santa Cruz Municipal Court.
You know what?
They didn't have a copy of that ticket.
The GA had never heard of the case.
The records people didn't have the ticket.
They didn't have anything to go with the ticket.
I'm currently seeking an out-of-court settlement with the company to deal with it because basically they threw me down and abused me for no reason.
But I don't want to I'm not a victim in this world because if you operate as a victim, you're going to get the victim experience.
I'm empowered to get beyond any difficulties that I've had.
And I just want to make my life better and everybody else's too.
unidentified
Right, right.
Yeah, I was the first time I heard of you was on one night when Art Bill was taking calls about people who were talking about time travel or something like that.
The answer to your question is that by having a fidget, the device that I described earlier, it allows you to take your mind off of the difficulties that are making time travel slowly.
When you go one moment at a time with nothing to do, you get the sweaty Palms and the itchy feet, and there you are.
If you have a fidget, you at least have somewhere to put that energy, and that in itself is empowering.
Believe me, I have extensive experience of working with artists and technology that's psychotronic based and the whole mine in the arts.
In other words, I'm a serious researcher in the whole thing about time travel in the first place.
Okay.
So my point is that I understand what you're talking about.
So what I'm saying is that unfortunately, when I first heard you on the radio, there was a lot of talk about the fact that two fidgets would actually make you travel in time.
And so I was thinking, okay, this doesn't really sound right, but I'm going to wait around and see what this fidget stuff is really all about.
And that's what I'm just saying.
The fidget itself sounds like it's a really neat toy.
But at the same time, it's unfortunate that it got mixed up with all this.
Art Bell held open a line for time machines for people that had physical devices that you went into and transported in time.
I did not call in on that line.
I called in on the I've Got American Rights to Talk on the Radio line west of the Rockies line.
Now, if you have some kind of time machine that would take you back in time or forward in time, I'm sure everybody would love to hear about it.
And I am from Missouri.
I was born in Missouri.
It's the show-me state.
Until I see somebody go in a time machine and freaking disappear, I don't believe it.
But now, as far as making painful times more pleasurable and being able to get through them, that I can absolutely prove to you beyond any shadow of a doubt is possible.
I guess maybe, you know, for some people, that's what is available to them.
I don't know how the psyche operates.
I'm no genius in that matter, but, you know, I know that if you want to anchor your boat and you don't have an anchor, you just punch a hole in the bottom of the boat and it'll get anchored just fine.
I've worked door to door all through your community.
And how are you doing?
unidentified
Oh, I'm doing fine.
In listening to you, I've come up with a few thoughts that I don't know.
I kind of see some reasoning to it.
Daniel Brinkley, when he had his experience and came back from the other side, he was told and instructed in putting together this gizmo or this special room or an equipment so that people could unstress.
And the psychomandum that Dr. Raymond Moody is at put together, that seems to be a key.
And in all of their traveling, unstressed seems to be a secret, an element of it.
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Let me finish the mailing thing just so that it's done.
Okay.
So if you send me a self-address stamped envelope, I will send you some sort of information catalog with several different models of fidgets available and the costs and how long it will take me to get them to you.
If you send me a check or money order for $5, I will guarantee that you get some sort of a great fidget that you'll never be sorry to have gotten.
And I can't say exactly what it's going to be because it depends on what I have stock on hand.
But what I can say is I've never had anybody get one of my fidgets and then turn around and say, oh, I'm sorry I got this.
Because let's keep in mind, we live in a society where you go to a movie for $7, you get two hours, well pardon me, an hour and 42 minutes of entertainment, and you leave with nothing.
And if you want stress relief, you go to a therapist for $75 an hour.
Well, after I'd been making fidgets for about a year, I had bought 4,000 key rings, and I was sitting in Denny's in Boulder, Colorado with a friend of mine.
And I went in there with a big old handful of key rings, and we put them down on the table.
I said, let's see what we can make.
And he put together one of those little things, and he called it a skew.
P-S-Q-U-E is how he spelled it, but I shortened it to S-K-E-W just for people.
Yeah, well, we actually, they tore our house down about a week before that.
The city did.
The FCC didn't.
They condemned our house, and we made the national news.
It was a big scene.
I missed that.
Oh, you missed that?
condemned your house for what the only thing they talked about on the news with something about your in bottles being thrown at the police but it never really No, we didn't, actually.
If you're doing something that you're unhappy with, you've got to find something that you can do with a smile on your face, or why do you want to get up in the morning?
When I put the new chain on, I had three extra links.
So I took the three links, two roller links, one pin link.
So you've got two pins through the middle, and you've got four little rollers on two roller links.
So just three links of chain.
Then I took a one-inch keyring and I attached it to the end of both of the holes in the roller links.
And it created the device where the three links flopped from one side of the keyring back to the other, back to the other, and created a little device that would never break, wear out, or fail.
And within 10 seconds of making the first one, the guy next to me said, hey, what do you got there?
And I showed it to him and he said, I'm trying to quit smoking.
Can I have it?
And I gave it to him.
And my life has been a blur ever since then with untold thousands of people receiving fidgets, people copying me, making fidgets, people telling me what to do with them.
Like for instance, the regular basic fidget makes a great bottle opener.
But I didn't know that.
And that's in the instruction book too, Art.
But I didn't know that until I'd sold hundreds of them.
and one of my friends came back and said hey it's a bottle opener i don't see exactly Yep, it's a very good bottle opener.
Yeah, if you look in the back of the comic book, tell your wife to bring the comic book in there.
You should have it for, you know, just to refer to it.
It is, well, when they're in front of me, you know, and when I hear, you know, I remember mannerisms and stuff, but I've literally seen 5 million people in the last two years just in accumulated event attendance.
all right well if everybody out there would cooperate and hang up on all lines which are all ringing and only those people who actually already have a fidget would call and by the way what's fidget delivery time uh...
But if it piles up on me, if I get like, you know, God help me 10,000 orders or something like that because you've got 10 million listeners, you know, I've got to create some protocols that I don't currently have in order to deal with that.
You know, as far as shipping and stuff, UPS is on strike.
It's maybe the only thing that'll say of our planet.
It creates much more oxygen per square acre than trees do.
You can use it for food and fuel and fiber, and it's an absolute ludicrous heresy that it's illegal, and it's strictly employed by the oil companies to keep us using these petroleum products.
And yeah, and I mean, I'm not one to, I don't like to go out on the political limb, you know.
I like to kind of keep it safe.
But in reality, okay, I want to, and I know you never allow biblical quotes at all, Art, but I want to say Genesis 1.30 says, I give you every green herb to use as meat, meaning food, fuel, ingestance.
And it was used throughout the centuries, and for some reason, some guys back in 1935 thought that they knew better, and I'm really amazed.
I have a friend that is a head of social work at one of the agencies in Denver, and she's been using my fidgets to give to kids when she's interviewing them.
And it allows them something that breaks that fidgety cycle, no pun intended, that by a kid having one of these fidgets, it's at least something to focus on.
And then after you play with it a little bit, you end up just holding on to it and then you're focused on whatever it is you're doing or putting it in your pocket.
It may be a benefit, but here's the fact of the matter.
The devices need to be studied.
And as long as these philanthropy organizations are busy throwing money down a toilet to go put some sort of advertising on the moon or whatever the heck they're doing and they're not looking at common sense solutions to common sense problems, It's causing us all trouble because our philanthropy dollars are not serving people.
There are hundreds of thousands of people that have now seen these fidgets and might want one and could maybe benefit from them, but because nobody's taken the time at MIT and Stanford and Harvard and all these places to look at the simplest thing they could possibly ever come across and study it to see how it could benefit, all the people that might need it haven't had it.
And I put the call out there, hey, I'm available to provide the devices to be studied.
I'm available to show you the progress that I've made with the devices.
And I can put in front of you people who've recovered from burn injuries with these devices, people who've quit smoking, people who have recovered from physical therapy, who could never, their therapist said they could never play music again, and then six months later, after fidgeting with my little devices, they're able to recoup their hands.
So, I mean, it's going to happen.
There is no doubt.
It's just a matter of when.
unidentified
Yeah, I wish you could really get it out quick, boy.
He was trying to hold open the lines for people that had fidgets just so I could talk to some of these people and we could hear some reports from people that did it.
But I can't fault you for wanting to call in because everybody's going to be able to do it.
unidentified
Well, you see, I did hesitate calling, but you've taken several callers since that request that didn't have that topic in hand.
I would have called in, too, and I'm glad you did.
And you're right.
Art Bell is an American legend, and he is a man that absolutely makes a concrete difference in everything.
A perfect example would be earlier this week on Monday when he stepped in on the UPS strike and did what, tens of thousands of reporters and newspapers and a whole bunch of people with their pens.
Well, I don't want to talk about where the pens are, but the reality is he took action, and everybody else went, oh, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
And now, what are they doing?
They're bargaining.
We don't know that it wasn't Art Bell's broadcast on Monday night that brought him together.
I thought the men in black might have interceded the package and pulled you off the air, particularly after they didn't rebroadcast the second half of the second hour.
Someday, in my absolutely rapid tone of voice, in which I can speak almost quicker than any man on earth, as quick as the Federal Express guy, as quick as anybody that you'll ever run into, I would love to run down the list of your affiliates and list every single one of them without any question and have you have that as a little cart if you display it at your convenience.