Art Bell welcomes global listeners amid a "wild" full moon, highlighting KNST AM’s 24/7 broadcast in Tucson and an anonymous Area 51 photo with an unclear suspended object. He celebrates the UPS strike settlement, thanks Alexis Herman, then questions Mir’s chaotic spinning due to a computer malfunction, speculating on its safety and relevance. A volcanic eruption threat near Montserrat prompts discussion of potential regional and global weather impacts, while callers debate feral humans, Bigfoot, and the Oregon potato blight. Bell teases a Dr. Dean Radin interview on psychic phenomena and denies ties to Heaven’s Gate suicides, though remaining members may call in soon, linking their UFO claims to Mir’s anomalies. The episode blends conspiracy theories with speculative science, urging listeners to share their own observations. [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 across all these many prolific time zones.
From the western side, including the Hawaiian, Tahitian Island chains and more, to the eastern side, the Caribbean, the U.S. Virgin Islands near Montserrat.
We're going to be talking a little bit about Montserrat tonight.
And south into South America, north to the Pole, worldwide on the old internet, this is Coast to Coast AM, and I'm Mark Bell.
Welcome.
It will be a night of many things.
It is a night of the full moon.
Have you looked outside?
Have you seen that moon?
Oh, it will bring many strange things with it, as it always does.
I'm not really sure what it is about the moon.
I just know it's true.
Years and years and years in talk radio, and I know that when the moon is full, like that, there is an edge to people.
Kind of an extra edge to people.
Sometimes good, sometimes bad, always wild.
So prepare thyself.
I would like to welcome KNST AM in Tucson, Arizona.
Guess what, Tucson?
You now get the entire program from 10 at night to, let me see, 3 in the morning every day, Sunday through Friday.
That's KNST AM 790 radio in Tucson, Arizona.
So there you have it, 790, interesting frequency.
Also, the same frequency as KABC in Los Angeles.
So if there is kind of a weird little area where 790 is not here nor there, the two signals might mesh and it would make a nice little corridor of continuity.
That reminds me to give out my international number.
You can call London or Sydney or anywhere else in the world toll-free.
We actually have the first, perhaps now, not the only, but I know the first real, true, toll-free international line.
So wherever you are in the world, we would love to hear.
And the number is that, well, actually, you've got to get hold of the AT ⁇ T operator.
Call and get the AT ⁇ T operator and ask her for 800-893-0903.
Once again, internationally, 800-893-0903, and we pay for the call.
Now, why should you go visit my website tonight?
Let me give you a few reasons.
One, we have a photograph of Area 51 that is maybe good enough to get us in trouble.
I received this anonymously.
There have been various photographs of Area 51.
None I'm aware of this good.
I can't tell you when it was taken, and I won't tell you who took it.
But I will tell you that it is up on my website right now or until they take it down.
So there you have it.
I think it was legally taken.
I don't think we're giving away any national security secrets, but indeed it does show in some detail an area the government continues to claim does not exist.
So, sent me a computer photograph, and what I did was scan and slightly improve a computer photograph, and that person wishes to remain anonymous, and so I will respect those wishes.
Even when men in black tongue.
Anyway, I put it up on the website, What the Hell, You Only Live Once, right?
Actually, I've got a whole series of photographs.
This was the one I liked best, and so I scanned it and put it up there for you.
As you know, my book, The Art of Talk, has gone into bookstores nationally, and there was a really cool ad that ran publishers weekly.
And so I scanned a portion of that, put that up there on the website.
You can see that.
Then there is the Rogue Market.
I want to enlist everybody's help out there.
The Rogue Market is really cool.
I became aware of the Rogue Market about, I think, three weeks ago, and it allows you to go up there.
You'll see it right near the top, second or third item down in the new section.
Just click on it.
You go over to the Rogue Market.
You fill out a form.
And you are given $10 or $15,000.
Not real money, Rogue Market money.
And then you can invest that money in all kinds of things, people, personalities of all sorts.
And I found out about three weeks ago, and somebody sent me a facts, that I was one of the personalities that you could invest in, along with Rush and Dr. Laura and, you know, all the major, I guess, current national talk show hosts.
So I thought I would urge everybody to go invest, buy some stock.
Now, obviously, the faster you go over there and buy stock, the better off you are because there are going to be a bunch of people going over there.
So if you buy stock at, say, 126, you buy some Art Bell stock at 126, and you get in there before the next guy, then when the next guy buys, the price of the stock goes up and you make money.
Not real money, rogue market money, but it's cool and it's fun.
And so when you go to my website, be sure and do that as soon as you can, as a matter of fact.
I'm trying now already, I think we already passed Rush and Dr. Laura some time ago, and now we're shooting for Imus and Howard Stern, who still lead the path, and I have a feeling they've been sending their audiences up there when you look at the numbers.
So I thought I would marshal my forces, that would be all of you, to go up and do some trading on the rogue market.
Buy some Art Bell stock or anybody's stock, really.
Actually, I'd like to have you buy mine because I intend to catch up and eventually pass all of them.
I'm so competitive.
I want to give you an idea of what my schedule is.
And I will do that in Alaska in a moment.
The UPS strike is over.
That's it.
CNN has had it as breaking news for quite a while now.
Alexis Herman and the president putting some pressure on by saying, you know, they're this close right now.
And I'm very glad to see it.
And I hope I put some pressure on, too.
How much damage has UPS by this strike will not be known for a while, but I suspect they're going to get back to work very quickly.
What was announced tonight was a tentative settlement.
The details are not going to be known right away.
But UPS is going back to work, yay.
Because there are a lot of small businesses all across America that were threatened.
Had the strike gone on, I think the union would have been threatened and UPS would have been threatened.
And so I would like to thank all sides involved, including Alexis Herman, who batted their heads together until they got the job done.
The whole thing began tumbling, as it has done many times before.
The damage is more significant than they thought.
The spacewalk to repair the electron and get more power into Mir has been put off now two or three days because of the computer problem.
And so it goes on, on, on, and on and on.
And I think pretty soon they ought to decide enough is enough.
And I don't know how much science is being done up there.
Mostly what they do is huddle in the dark and worry about whether they should be jumping into the escape module.
I think Mir has just about lived its useful life, and I don't know why we're intent on having Americans up there.
I think it's dangerous.
In New York City, truly something horrible has occurred.
I'm sure you've heard about it, seen it.
Two more New York City police officers have been arrested to face charges in the arrest.
Police Commissioner Howard Seffer, I believe it is, said the two officers arrested today are being held for allegedly assaulting Haitian immigrant Abner Luizma before he was taken to the police precinct house.
The officers actually have been charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon, the police radios they allegedly used to beat him, and more, sexually assaulted with a bathroom plunger.
The whole thing is nuts.
Absolutely nuts.
Meat troubles, U.S. Agriculture Department sending in a big team, a SWAT team, they called it, to a Nebraska plant, meat plant, looking for cause of the recall of 5 million hamburger patties.
Everybody worried about E. coli.
What is a U.S. Agricultural Department's SWAT team anyway?
Sometimes I think of all these guys in vests with alphabet stuff on the back of their jackets coming in with fly swatters and swatting flies.
It's not that, of course.
But a SWAT team for me.
Let me read you a little bit of an Associated Press story about Montserrat.
A British warship has pulled Into port on this Caribbean island, it occurred Monday, to help carry away residents who want to escape the rumbling hills volcano.
In London, the British minister responsible for the colony said he couldn't rule out the possibility that a quote cataclysmic eruption could literally engulf Montserrat, an island 250 miles southeast of Puerto Rico.
The consequences of such an event, should it occur, would be extreme and anywhere on the whole island could be significantly threatened.
Citing a growing threat from the volcano in southern Montserrat, officials announced Saturday they were preparing for a voluntary evacuation of the island.
In other words, they're saying this island could literally blow up.
That's it.
Masarat could let go, not with a continuing and slow eruption, but a literal explosion that could probably affect the weather worldwide.
And the last place you would want to be if that occurred would be on the island of Maserat.
Now, I wonder how the people in the Virgin Islands, and of course I'm on the air there, and surrounding islands, Puerto Rico, we're going to be on the air there soon, feel about this.
Because if that kind of an explosion should really occur, they would, of course, be immediately, I would think, if the wind is right, covered in ash, and there would be fallout all over the place.
So Mazarant may be getting ready to let go.
They don't pull British warships in for evacuation unless they really think something's about to let go.
So any comments from the Virgin Islands would be welcome.
I am going to have a man on at midnight tonight that I think you're going to find very interesting.
He sent me some email, and he lives in a little place called Berea, B-E-R-E-A, Kentucky.
And this man, just a guy, knows about feral humans.
Feral humans.
And while he does not discount reports of Bigfoot, he thinks that a number of those reports could be because of feral humans.
Do you have any idea what we're talking about when we say feral human?
Like my cat, a feral cat, a cat that never saw a human being until it met me.
In this case, a human being who has never seen another human being.
These people do exist in the mountains, in that area where this man lives.
They exist.
He knows he's seen one.
And unless you have ever dealt with a wild animal, and a wild human would be no different, you can't imagine what an interesting, tedious, difficult, loving, hard job it is to, well, I don't know if you'd apply the word human being, but to Tim.
It is still going on.
It is an ongoing thing with my feral cat.
I'll tell that whole story one of these days, maybe even later tonight, and update you on my.
So I know what feral means.
In this case, he's talking about feral human beings.
There was a movie done about a feral human being called Nell.
Jody Foster did it.
Well, I sure would like to do an interview with Jodi Foster.
Are you listening, Jodi?
At any rate, let me quickly give you my schedule.
I know this much.
I'm going to be in Juneau, Alaska, Tuesday, August 26th.
Juneau, Alaska, Tuesday, August 26th.
In Skagway, Wednesday the 27th.
Wednesday the 27th.
I will be in Seward, Alaska by 9 o'clock in the morning, I think, August 30th.
And then in Anchorage, Alaska at about 12.30 or so in the afternoon on August 30th.
And I will do an interview on KENI.
I'm going to go down to the KENI studios and do an interview.
And I'm looking forward to seeing Anchorage.
It's a long, long, too long a time, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing it.
So my wife and I will be in those places, and I'll try and repeat that here toward the end of the week.
All kinds of stuff for you this morning, including Darwin Award candidates, new Darwin award candidates.
I want to find out about an Oregon potato blight.
There's something very serious going on up in Oregon, I do believe, with regard to the potatoes.
And of course, that's a serious crop up there.
So there's a blight.
Anyway, we're going to take a break here at the bottom of the hour.
We'll be right back.
Open lines coming up next.
I'm Mark Bell.
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All right, I got a fact from somebody saying KNST made an announcement that they're having some technical difficulties.
First day hitches are not unusual.
Bear with them.
I'm sure they'll get it straightened out.
Even though we may not be there yet, or we might just be getting there, rest assured, we're coming to Tucson, actually moving in Tucson, to a full-timer.
That is 10 o'clock at night to 3 o'clock in the morning on KNST 790.
All right, we are about to enter the realm of unscreened, open line, talk radio.
Anything can happen, good or bad, so get ready.
First, let me talk to you about Valdata Manu.
What I've got to do is take their commercial and kind of throw it away because it just doesn't impart what really needs to be imparted to you.
They sell two things.
They sell the best military-grade binoculars that ought to cost at least $1,000.
I mean, there is no questioning about it.
These are military-spec binoculars.
They are the best optics I have ever seen in my entire life.
They have multi-layered, multi-coated, anti-reflex treated lenses, glass manufactured, if you know optics, by the Schott Company, the world-famous Schott Company in Germany.
BAK-4 oversized coral prism block design.
Whatever all that means.
What it means to me is, as a matter of fact, these binoculars go on every cruise with me, of course.
Nitrogen-filled so you don't get any fogging.
I mean, these are just so spectacular.
You will know when you hold them in your hot little palm that you have the best there is.
I have never seen optics this good in my whole life.
And when I saw them, I called, I chased this company down and got them as a sponsor.
I said, you've got to sell these.
Now, they also have a rifle scope of equal quality, which can be used for hunting or their word, tactical.
You know, I would imagine that police departments and that sort of thing would be interested in something of this quality.
So, I suggest, and by the way, what should be $1,000 begins at $349.
Well, I know there is millennial madness out there, but there are indications going on all over the place, everywhere you care to look, that things are coming to some sort of crescendo.
May or may not be true.
I think it is.
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Well, I think it's a matter of perception.
For instance, if we all believed Harold Camping from Family Radio in Oakland, we would have believed that the world would have ended 11 months ago, back in September 96.
I really urge to read my book, The Quickening, because the center contention, the reason I wrote that book is because everybody said, look, it's a chatter of mass communication.
There's more going on now.
We hear about it quickly, if not instantly, when tragedies occur.
And so that explains what you, Art, call The Quickening.
So I wrote the book in order to prove that that was incorrect, that there really is a quickening going on, and there is.
So read the book and then call me back and we'll have a discussion about that, about whether it's real or whether it's just some sort of millennial madness.
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All right, Art, if I could say one more thing.
There was a lot of fear and apprehension about the Hailbop comet and the companion object that was supposedly flying along with Hailbop.
He sent me a fact saying he could make the lights happen.
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I know, I heard that, and that's why I was wondering when he was going to be on me and either, you know, make them happen or come on your show and tell us how it happened.
What this man said was that he saw the mirror, and he saw the cargo ship, which was close by it, and was able to distinguish, and I would imagine that would be possible, between the two, but saw an object go speeding by at an incredible rate of speed.
Now, reasonable for one to ask oneself, what do you think happened to the main computer on the mirror?
What could have happened to that main computer to completely crash it?
Well, I'll tell you one thing that crashes computers.
Electromagnetic pulses crash computers.
Oh, they do a real job on computers.
And something happened to that computer all at once.
The cosmonauts didn't do it.
Ground control didn't do it, they assure us.
Whatever happened to that computer, the computer, they say, did it to itself.