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Nov. 26, 1997 - Art Bell

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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - News, Commentary, Open Lines (hour 1)

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art bell ▲ ● ▼		From the high desert in the great American southwest, I bid you all good evening, reporting as the case may be, across this great land of ours, stretching from the Tahitian and Hawaiian Island chains in the west, where the gentle breezes, trade winds blow, and grass skirts abound.
		I'm going to get to Hawaii, you know it, TED2.
		All the way east to similar visions, St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands.
unidentified		Good morning.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I guess it's way into the morning there.
		South into South America, north to the North Pole worldwide on the internet.
		This is Coast Coast AM, and I'm Marfell.
		Welcome to the weirdest show on the face of the earth.
		Well, we've got a new affiliate.
		Yes, indeed.
		Giving birth to yet another, this time WIMAM in Lima, Ohio.
		Now, I don't know why, but I always thought it should be Lima.
		But no, it's lima, as in lima bean.
		No reflection, of course, on WIMA, but lima beans are absolutely the...
		It's just that when I was young, you know, everybody has a food that they just simply cannot abide by.
		And mine, for me, it's Lima Beans.
		Anyway, great to have you on board.
		Lima Heights.
		They're $11.50 on the dial in Lima, Ohio.
		Great to have you.
		You know, remember, there's some food, isn't there, that you just absolutely cannot abide by, can't even stand the smell of.
		Well, for me, it was Lima beans, and it still is, incidentally.
unidentified		I don't eat them.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And I used to have to eat them.
		You know, we had a rule in our house, no dessert unless you ate your entire dinner, whatever your entire dinner that night happened to consist of.
		And when it was lima beans, the only thing I could do, which is what I did, is to take them whole.
		Never chew them.
		That's bad.
		You take your entire glass of milk, and you take each lima bean like a pill.
		And that's how I would eat lima beans.
		And that's the only way I would get to my dessert.
		Well, let's see.
		What are we going to do tonight?
		It's in some time zones, already Thanksgiving, most talk show hosts do an inevitable, what are you thankful for?
		I don't do that.
		Sometimes I do, what are you not thankful for?
		There's plenty to be not thankful for.
		Saddam Hussein, AIDS.
		Of course, I'm covering the headlines here.
		The AIDS situation is particularly interesting.
		I'll tell you, next hour we're going to have Joyce Riley on.
		And I'm going to ask her about this.
		Now, years ago, we were saying exactly what they have revealed today.
		The UN AIDS Agency said today that 16,000 people are infected with AIDS daily.
		Previous estimates of the number of people with AIDS have been wholly unreported.
		They now believe that 30 million people are infected with HIV.
		30 million.
		Now, it was 10 million a few days ago.
		Now, actually, this is fully one-third more than earlier estimates.
		One in every 100 sexually active adults under the age of 49 worldwide now has HIV.
		Only one in 10 knows about it.
		Now, they think that by the year 2000, if we make it, that number will soar to 40 million.
		And in a way, what we're going to talk about with Joyce Riley, and she's got a lot of new information about the whole Gulf War business, relates to AIDS.
		So we'll ask her about that.
		Now, and also this relates to what we're going to talk to Joyce Riley about.
		You may recall that the UN inspectors, if we remember the chronology correctly, were either kicked out or in protest walked out of Iraq when the U.S. inspectors were not allowed to inspect, right?
		And so then we began to send B-52s and F-117s and all that toward Iraq, like we were going to do serious damage.
		And so they changed their minds.
		They caved in completely to our demands, which seemed extremely disappointing to our Defense Department, which was cranking up to hit Saddam.
		Nevertheless, I mean, what are you going to do?
		They caved in.
		The Russians did it.
		They made a deal.
		And, you know, when somebody meets all your demands, you have very little choice, right?
		And so we continued to move hardware over there, but went back in.
		Then, if I've got my story straight, and check me if I don't, we said, once we got back in, that we were going to have to inspect all 63 homes, castles, private residences, or whatever of Saddam Hussein.
		And they said, absolutely not.
		And then we began to make noises like we would come in and, you know, start bombing.
		And so today, they caved in and said, okay, you can visit all of these places.
		Again, I think, disappointing the Defense Department.
		And so now tonight, the U.S. is saying, thank you very much.
		We're glad you're going to let us in, but it's not enough.
		So we continue to move the goalposts.
		And I am convinced, just absolutely tonight more than ever convinced that we are going to hit Iraq and we are going to find a reason to do it no matter what.
		That's the way it looks to me, anyway.
		So, with more action in the Gulf looming, I think Joyce Riley, it's time to have Joyce Forelli back and get an update on what's going on.
		She's got a bunch of very upsetting audio clips to play for you this evening.
		By the way, I'm going to be here tomorrow night.
		I will be here live tomorrow night.
		I will take a day off Friday, and we will rerun David Adair, the rocket scientist.
		And, of course, I had a scheduled day off Sunday, and so there'll be a rerun on Dreamland, which means that I get three days off.
		But I will be here live tomorrow night.
		It just made more sense to me to do it that way.
		The Supreme Court agreed to consider reinstating a law that required the National Endowment for the Arts to consider decency as well as artistic merit in handing out public money.
		Now, I think that's just fine.
		And of course, everybody bristles at the crucifix turned upside down in a bottle of urine, which was presented at the taxpayers' expense as an artistic presentation.
		And that's baloney.
	You know, that's just baloney.
	And so I don't want to pay for that.
	And so good for the Supreme Court.
	I hope they consider well.
	We have brought you, referring to last night's program, which was sort of, I'm going to call it the Sunstroke program with Ed Dames, a lot of news recently about deformed frogs and the fact that up in Duluth, they have now apparently discovered that it is due to UV radiation, not some kind of parasite from snakes or whatever.
	But UV radiation, now, tonight, I have a story, I'm sorry to say, from Ohio, as a matter of fact, about Greg Amalory of Zanesville, who has found, I'm sorry to say, a white-tailed deer, this young fellow shot, that has an extra leg growing out of its back.
	Now, simple-celled organisms, you can talk about those, and you don't get too upset.
unidentified		DNA changing, not too big a deal.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Frogs, extra legs, eyes and throats, that kind of thing.
		You know, worrisome, but not too big a deal.
		Now, a deer with a leg growing out of its back.
		That's beginning to move up the food chain a little bit, folks.
		Kind of worrisome.
		We are going to have another guest next week on what's going on with the sun, by the way.
		Hey, listen.
		I got the gift of a lifetime.
		Daryl, my friend in Los Angeles, I want to thank you.
		You know what Daryl sent me?
		He sent me a Packers helmet.
		That's right.
		A real Packers helmet in a display case.
		I am a big Packers fan, as you know.
		And so I have held it up.
		It arrived today, and I have held it up in front of my studio cam, my live studio cam, proudly.
		You can see it.
		Thank you, Daryl.
		Packers helmet.
		Now, to make life complete, all I need is to get Brett Favre to sign it for me.
		And that would complete life.
		I'm so proud of that.
		Take a look.
		It's really pretty, and you can see me holding it up there on the...
		There's a live...
		And when you go to my website, you can see me doing whatever it is a talk show host does from three separate angles generally.
		But I have frozen the picture with Daryl's helmet.
		And I was, boy, that was very exciting.
		Thank you very much, Daryl.
		That was quite a gift.
		And so I've held it up there for all the world to see in Brett Favre.
		If you're out there, I don't suppose you'd sign it for me, would you?
unidentified		God, that would be incredible.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Anyway, what we're going to do is open lines for the rest of this hour.
		I would rather imagine a lot of you want to react to what you heard yesterday from Ed Dames.
		And that's fine.
		And I've got a couple of other items for you here that we will get to.
		When it comes to information on extraterrestrials, by the way, I just talked to a young lady down in Tucson who has been seeing some remarkable UFOs.
		And she's out there right now trying to get video.
		So if anybody else in Tucson has seen something that ought not be in the air, and she called the military base there, and they told her, forget it.
		I mean, just don't think about it.
		She called some UFO group in Florida and they told her to go back and house lock the door and stay there.
		Instead, she's outside trying to get audio and video of whatever it is of passing over Tucson.
		Anyway, I'm off track.
		Back to ETs.
		You've got to see a video we've got.
		Area 51, the alien interview.
		Remember when Extra and Strange Universe had about three seconds of this?
		And I interviewed Victor, the guy who supposedly got it out of Area 51, spirited this thing out of Area 51.
		And I still want to invite Victor back.
		Victor, wherever you are, the sound of my voice is wide, and I would imagine you can hear me.
		Consider getting in touch with me for another interview.
		We promise, as always, anonymity.
		I'd like to see how life has gone for Victor.
		Apparently, not well.
		He's in hiding.
		This shows An alien being interrogated by guys, military or pseudo-military, who knows, at Area 51.
		It's pretty convincing video, and we've got the whole thing, not just a few seconds, but a 65-minute documentary with all footage.
		It is, in all, $19.95, plus shipping and handling.
		You can call right now and get it, and I suggest you do exactly that.
		It will take about two weeks to get to you.
		The number is 1-800-510-3420.
		That's 1-800-510-3420.
		If you're one of the many who hasn't yet moved into the computer age, please stop and listen carefully.
		Oh, yes, I know.
		You've tried to understand computers only to give up in frustration, but senior computer systems is different, and I mean a lot different.
		I've checked them out.
		It's a tremendous concept.
		Here's an ultra-fast computer with built-in one-on-one live assistants.
		Now, suppose you're attempting to send email, for example, and you're stuck.
		You simply push the F12 key on your computer, and presto, you've got the SCS Tech Center's Help Genie.
		Now, this is a real live person who looks at your screen and shows you exactly what to do.
		The Genie will help you with your email, show you how to surf the net, how to communicate with others who share your interests.
		The SCS computer has got plenty of memory and storage space and is easily upgraded.
		The full package comes with monitor, printer, 13 software programs, including Windows 95 and the built-in Genie software, plus an extremely easy-to-use training manual, all for less than $2,000.
		And a three-year warranty and service right to your door are available.
		By the way, if you already have a computer, yes, you can purchase the Genie and training manual separately.
		For details, call SES right now at 1-800-354-6846.
		That's 1-800-354-6846.
		Join the computer age with this revolutionary new system.
		Call 1-800-354-6846 and never again be intimidated by a computer.
		You remember yesterday I read you a story about two-foot-long rats?
		A group, ecological group in Chile, has indeed now sounded an alarm about two-foot-long mutant rats that have attacked barnyard animals in a suburb of Santiago.
		Santiago, I guess.
		And today I got the following.
		Adear Art, speaking of two-foot-long rats, I've missed that experience.
		But how about a very thick, fat roach somewhere between three and four inches long?
		My first night in Saigon, I had just arrived for my first overseas civilian job in 1966 as an advisor.
		Alone in my room at the hotel, I heard this loud, raspy, scratching noise, kind of like a metal file being dragged over the edge of a piece of plywood.
		The sound was coming from the direction of the door to my room.
		Now, you can imagine my state of mind, my first time out of the USA, in a strange country, a war going on, the people, their language, the stench of garbage piled up along both sides of the street, the airport burning from an attack earlier that night,
		just before we landed, U.S. and VN troops pointing weapons at us at every intersection, a confused late-night arrival at the hotel, a bottle of drinking water with a mat of lint and hair resting at its bottom, thoughtfully provided by the management, occasional distant explosions.
		You get the picture.
		I was scared to death.
		And then this grating, scratching noise.
		It was a huge roach stuck under the door, trying to squeeze under to get inside my room.
		Its movements, the rubbing of its back against the bottom edge of the door were the cause of the noise.
	It was actually shaking the door on its hinges.
	God.
	I didn't want it inside my room.
	Wasn't about to open the door or step on something that looked about the half size of my foot.
	For all I knew, it might have been a VC in disguise or something.
	May I be forgiven, but I squirted it with some green alcohol-based athlete's foot medication that I had brought with me, literally soaking it with what I remember was NP-27.
	Well, that poor roach instantly freed itself and raced down the hallway, actually making a tiny squealing noise as it careened into walls, door jams, and finally under another guest's door.
	I, of course, was happy it was gone, relieved that I hadn't taken a match and lighted it, because that was my next well-thought-out plan.
	I remained in South Vietnam for the next nine and a half years, but that night I was ready and all set to go home right away.
	I've only been listening to you for the past month, though, and then he gives me some kudos and so forth.
	So there you are.
	That's from Jim in Morris, Alabama, I guess just north of Birmingham.
	Yeah, that's quite a welcome in-country, all right.
unidentified		Jim?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Imagine a roach that big?
		Can you even imagine?
		All right, to the lines.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Extinctions are raining in Kansas.
unidentified		I love your show.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, thank you.
unidentified		How's Nevada Bell?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How's Nevada Bell?
		Your dog.
		Oh, we haven't named her yet.
unidentified		Well, I thought I'd suggest the name, Nevada Belle, with a D on the end, Belle with an E. Yeah, Belle, like the Memphis Belle.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		a lot of people have suggested the name Belle.
		Actually, she's doing really well.
		You know, we went out and we bought her a doghouse, a prefab doghouse.
		Oh, boy.
		And what she's been doing, we've got some construction going on here in our yard.
		And we checked the doghouse earlier tonight.
		She loves it.
		She stays in there when it's rainy or windier, you know, at night.
		She goes into her doghouse, loves it.
		But we checked her doghouse, and there was every manner of construction.
		There was a hammer in there.
		There was a big ball of twine in there.
		There were just about, you know, she's stealing things from these construction guys and putting them in her doghouse as a cache of whatever.
unidentified		Murphy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So she's doing fine.
		Art?
		Yes.
unidentified		Did you get that cassette I sent you?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now, that is a question that will stand eternally as one that you shouldn't ask me.
		Did I get that cassette I?
		I've got hundreds of them.
		What did it have to do with?
unidentified		Well, I wanted to explain it.
		It's a song.
		It says three songs on there and two other things that I've done.
		It's about the night you had Merle Haggard on the show.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yes.
unidentified		And you're in the song.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know what?
		I have a special stack of music that people send.
		And so it's going to be in that.
		I haven't heard it yet, but I'm sure I have it.
unidentified		Well, I went to the down here to Kemper Arena on the 16th and saw Merle Haggard and met him.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Met his son Noel and all the musicians and gave him about eight of my songs that I've written.
		And maybe I'll do some good.
		I don't know, but I sure loved his performance.
		The last song he sang was that Okie from Scobey.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		And I'm just crazy about Merle Haggard.
		Well, I hope you have a nice Thanksgiving.
		I know I'm going to have a good one.
		And I hope everybody in this land has a good one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I have a very special Thanksgiving.
		Thank you so very much for the call.
		My Thanksgiving, I should say that our Thanksgiving, because of the hours that I work.
		You know when I'm going to celebrate Thanksgiving?
		You know when I'm going to have Thanksgiving dinner?
		At 4 o'clock in the morning, one hour after I get off the air from doing this program, I will sit down to a somewhat non-typical turkey dinner.
		In other words, I'm not going to have turkey.
unidentified		I'm going to have a roast.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Heard a little story about some tainted turkeys in California.
		It scared the stuffing out of me.
		So we're going for a roast this year.
		But yes, my Thanksgiving is just hours ahead.
		I'm Mark Bell, and this is Coast to Coast AM.
		Good morning.
		Don't touch that dial.
unidentified		Please tell me what I'm doing.
		I know what you're doing.
		Please tell me who I am.
		I said, what would you say?
		I'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, a radical criminal.
		Heartbell is taking your calls on the wild card line at Area Code 702-727-1295.
		That's 702-727-1295.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, man, you've got to check out this size.
		This guy's just well, and Indy.
		Good morning, everybody.
		This is Coast to Coast AM free form for the next half hour.
		then Joyce Riley and the Gulf War Syndrome and much more.
unidentified		Good night.
unidentified		That is Thomas.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, here's a Christmas gift that you.
		Well, everybody knows somebody who's got everything, but one thing they probably don't have is a star.
		Now, Nicole Kidman has a star.
		Brooke Shields has a star.
		Alex Baldwin.
		Madonna has a star, as well as her new baby.
		I have a star.
		My wife has a star.
		And you can have a star too.
		Actually, actually have a star.
		As a matter of fact, last night I put up the framed star, a certificate which is absolutely beautiful.
		It's gigantic.
		It's like, I don't know, 16 by 20 or something.
		And they give you a star map as well to show you where your star is.
		It's $45.
		And you really are getting a star.
		I mean, you call the International Star Registry, and I'll give you their number.
		They send a beautiful full-color parchment certificate of record, sky charts, and a very interesting book on astronomy.
		Now, so you know, your star, the one name for you, and remember, a star is a sun, right?
		Your star is entered in the registry's book and recorded with the U.S. Copyright Office, so it will be your star forever.
		I mean, imagine the fame, the possibilities.
		What if your star went supernova?
		Your name would be everywhere.
		But even if it doesn't, you've got a star, right?
		An entire star.
		So, there you are.
		Call the International Star Registry at 1-800-282-3333.
		Not a real hard number.
		That's 1-800-282-3333.
		And for $45, you can give a star for Christmas.
		Yeah, Max, they also, of course, can help you get into business for yourself, but you've got to get one first.
		That's the way it works.
		All right, on my international line, you're on the air.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Hi, Eric.
		This is Jesse in Clearwater.
		I have a question, a comment, and a program suggestion.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, how did you get on my international line?
unidentified		How did I get on your line?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're talking about Clearwater, Florida, right?
unidentified		No, Clearwater, British Columbia.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's how you got on.
		All right.
		Anyway, what's going on?
unidentified		Okay, first of all, I want to know how the dog is doing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, she's doing great.
unidentified		Does she have a name yet?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, we have, in computer terms, about three megabytes of names.
unidentified		Well, you know, you already had the best name you could pick for that dog on the air.
		What?
		Millie for Millennium.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Millennium.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's definitely one of the top contenders, but I want to go through all these suggested names before we make a choice.
unidentified		And I have to say, you have incredible taste in dogs.
		That's got to be about the ugliest dog I ever saw in my life.
		Isn't it?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Man, I tell you, she is ugly.
		There's no question about it.
		But I'll tell you, that's one big jaw.
		Look at the size of that jaw.
unidentified		I know.
		She grows into that head.
		She's going to be huge.
		I raise dogs, so I've been just laughing at you and your cats, and now you finally got a dog.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		She could eat one of my cats in one bite.
unidentified		Does she bother them?
		No.
		Oh, right on.
		No.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		As a matter of fact, she jumped up to my 20-pounder, my 20-pounder, hardly even moved, and then just pawed her in the face a couple times, and she was disappointed that she couldn't make friends.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So now she's ashamed.
unidentified		What do you comet think of her?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Listen, Comet will hardly have anything to do with humans.
unidentified		I have a programming suggestion for you.
		Yes.
		You have talked about everything but the one thing in the world that terrifies me the most.
		What?
		Werewolves.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, werewolves.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know, I've never had a werewolf line.
unidentified		You got to try it, man.
		I want to see what happens.
		When I was a kid, my mother sent me to a shrink to find out why I was afraid of the dark.
		We lived out on a ranch out in the middle of nowhere.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Have you ever encountered a werewolf?
unidentified		Only in my dreams.
unidentified		Oh, and in that rotten book Whitley Strieber wrote.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good advertisement for his book.
unidentified		Yeah.
		I have a question about Whitley Streeber.
		Actually, I have a comment, too.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Quit hogging him when he's on the air.
unidentified		Let us talk to him some more.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I can't help it.
unidentified		Yes, you can.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, I can't.
		I try.
		I really try.
		But, you know, it's so interesting that sometimes I just can't let go.
		I know.
		It really is a problem, I know.
unidentified		No.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do the wild thing.
		It's 702-727-1295.
		Now, wait a minute.
		Wait a minute.
		You can't say that on the air.
unidentified		Oh, rap.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, you can't say that word on the air.
		That's a, you know, four-letter word.
		That's one of the deadliest in the world?
		Yeah, you can't say that.
unidentified		Oh, right.
		George Carlin all that.
		That's right.
		Oh, okay, I got it.
		Well, okay, he gives me a hack.
		How's that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He gives you, well, fertilizer would imply.
unidentified		Yeah, it's a little beyond that.
unidentified		But the reason I've tried to get a hold of Whitley.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		By the way, I've got a wonderful list of reasons that you can give for not going into work.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Would you like some?
unidentified		I just tell him the dog ate the spark plug wires out of my truck or something.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, anyway, you have what for Whitley?
unidentified		I have something floating around behind my left ear that showed up when I was 20 years old after I had had an hour and a half of missing time, and I want to know how do I find out if it's an implant?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, you talk to Whitley, and he points you toward a doctor who will take a look at it, or you go to your local doctor and have an x-ray or an MRI or something.
unidentified		He laughs at me, and he won't take an x-ray of it.
		But this thing is back there.
		It's got a mole on it.
		I can feel it moving around.
		There's two of them side by side right here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Demand.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Demand an x-ray.
unidentified		Oh, yeah, right.
		With the Canadian health system, you don't have the right to demand.
		You do what you're told.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right, you live in Canada.
		Well, he'll drive down.
		Drive down here to where you pay for things, and they'll do it.
unidentified		There's 15 hours to get across the border.
unidentified		I don't think so, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, all right.
		And next time Whitley's on, I'll hope that you can get on with him.
		Now, listen.
		How about these for excuses not to come to work?
		You know, you call in, right?
		You get your boss on the line.
		If it's all the same to you, I won't be coming into work.
		The voices told me to clean all the guns today.
		My stigmata's acting up.
		Boss, look, I just can't come into work today because I'll be stalking my previous boss who fired me for not showing up.
		Okay?
		Hey, boss, I'm stuck in the blood pressure machine down at the food giant.
		Constipation boss has made me a walking time bomb.
		I need to stay home.
		Or I just found out I was switched at birth legally.
		I shouldn't come to work, knowing my employee records may now contain false information.
		My mother-in-law has come back as one of the undead.
		And today we're going to have to track her to her coffin, drive a stake through her heart, and give her eternal peace.
		One day should do it.
		Hey, here's my menu.
		Let's see.
		Here's what I'm having at 4 o'clock in the morning.
		Try this.
		Slow roasted beef with homemade gravy.
		Nama just bought this in.
		Slow roasted beef with homemade gravy.
		Now, I can't read this.
		Walnut apple dressing, whipped yams, mashed potatoes, steamed carrots and broccoli.
		That's a lot of vegetables there.
		Fresh biscuits, herb tea, and pecan pie.
		Well, now I said I'd be here tomorrow night, but after this, I'm...
		Amen.
		I'll be lucky to walk.
		Well, I guess as long as I can still talk, huh?
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Good evening, Art.
		This is Ken in Las Vegas.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, Ken.
unidentified		Art, do you remember about a month ago I called up and I expressed my dissatisfaction toward David John Oates' findings of the Area 51 caller?
		Yes.
		I sent, and you told me to send a tape with my findings.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		To David Oates.
unidentified		Well, I sent it To you to listen.
		Did you receive the tape?
		Did you listen to it?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, I'm sure we've got it, but I don't recall having listened to it yet.
		You've got to understand that the show is so doggone big now that we bring our mail in here in bins, gigantic bins, and we're behind.
		So, yes, of course, if you sent it, I'm sure I have it, but I can't tell you I've already listened.
unidentified		Because in that letter, I wrote a three-page letter.
		One is a general text letter.
		The other one is the text of the Area 51 conversation, and the other one are the eight reversals, legitimate reversals that I found, and which I explained to you on the air.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, there shouldn't be a difference.
		In other words, reversals should be reversals, should be reversals, right?
		And if there is a reversal there, and it is clear and not metaphoric, in other words, open to interpretation, it should be read the same by everybody.
unidentified		Most of the reversals are clear, like I'm faking it and hear me milk it and stuff.
		The thing I want to say is if you do read it, and if you ever get to it, because in that letter, I openly challenge Mr. Oates on here, on your show.
		I have a group of friends and I, a group of friends that are willing to challenge Mr. Oates to a debate, and which you'd be the moderator.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What's a debate?
		I mean, you have reversals.
		He has reversals on the same subject.
		I know.
		And so then all you can do is get together and say, did you hear that one?
		Did you hear that one?
unidentified		But the problem is that he took all the reversals out of context.
		It was not exactly what it was.
		And also the truth was that a group of people here in Las Vegas and other places went out of our way.
		We staked our reputation on the line by promoting Mr. Oates on the radio shows, on other radio shows.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, let me say this to you.
		Why don't you take the tape of your reversals and send them to David Oates instead of me?
		In other words, let him review your reversals, determine that they are real, and then we will have a conflict on our hands and we can go from there.
		How's that?
unidentified		Well, I'll tell you what, you listen to the tape, what I've got, send it, submit it to Mr. Oates, because I felt that a lot of people in the reverse speech community feel we've been short-changed, that we feel that Mr. Oates' findings were at best questionable.
unidentified		Like I said, we staked our requests.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, okay, again, I'm willing to do that, but thank you.
		But I don't see how that can be.
		Reversals are there.
		They occur every so many seconds.
		And the ones that are clear, and those are the only ones for the public that I can deal with, not the metaphoric type that would be open to interpretation.
		But the clear reversals, which you claim you have, are the only ones we can deal with.
		And I would not imagine that David would endeavor to, I mean, it didn't matter.
		As far as I was concerned, the guy could have been a total fake or he could have been absolutely real, 50-50 from my point of view.
		So I doubt that David started with an agenda.
		It would have been just as interesting to prove the guy was a fake with reversals.
		So I'm not sure what we've got here.
		And if I can find the tape, I'll send it to David and then we can have some kind of debate.
		That's all I can see to do.
		But reversals are reversals are reversals.
		Period.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Mr. Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Mr. Caller.
unidentified		This is Robert in San Joaquin Valley, California, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello there.
unidentified		How are you, sir?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi.
unidentified		Well, I got four things for you tonight, if I may.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		If you can do it quickly.
unidentified		I'll do.
		I'll do.
		Last night, first, you're responding to last night with Major Ed Dinks.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		If what he says is correct, and this does happen in 1999, I was thinking that Green Peace is really going to be ticked off, don't you think?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, there is that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And I was talking to my webmaster, Keith, earlier, and he said, you know, this sure will take care of the year 2000 problem.
unidentified		It will.
		Well, you know, it also made me think that I better go on that cruise next.
		Was it May, you said?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		May, that's right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's in May.
unidentified		Yeah, I've never been on a cruise, and I thought, of course, I'm used to having the best.
unidentified		I hope they've got a luxury suite for me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Listen, well, you better, if you want a luxury suite, you've got to get in early.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Can I bring some VIPs?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I beg your pardon?
unidentified		Can I bring some VIPs?
unidentified		Add to the festivities.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Bring VIPs?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Like who?
unidentified		Well, I'll have to check around and see that they, you know, the caliber of people that would fit in with the...
		Ah, well, okay.
		Well, I'll see what I can do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, anything else?
unidentified		Yes, you had mentioned weeks ago about the awards, the radio awards, and then I never heard any more about that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I don't know which ones you're referring to.
		There were two sets of them.
		One set was given in Los Angeles, and I won.
		I won Best Male Talk Show Host of the Year.
unidentified		But you never told us.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, yes, I did.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You just didn't hear.
unidentified		Well, congratulations.
unidentified		How long ago was this?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What, six months, five months?
unidentified		Something like that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And then there was another set of awards.
		I was nominated for what's called the Marconi Award.
		I was one of the five nominees.
		And the winner of that was not me.
		It was Dr. Laura Schlesinger.
unidentified		No comments, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's no.
		Have a good night.
		Thank you very much.
		At any rate, I was very...
		Marconi is like the god of radio, like the father of radio.
		So it's a very prestigious award.
		And I was one of the five finalists for syndicated talk shows.
		So I was very, very honored.
		East of the Rockies, you're on air.
		Good morning.
		Good morning.
		Mr. Merrill.
		Yes, turn your radio off.
		Ah, yes.
unidentified		Turn those things.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		See?
		Foulsy all up, folks.
		Got to have it right there.
unidentified		Jim, turn it off.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		This is John in Atlanta.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, Atlanta, yes, sir.
unidentified		Yes, it's quite a long way away.
unidentified		Anyway, I noticed that you put a symbol of mine up on your homepage.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, are you the one who did the symbol?
		Well, I did one of them, yes.
		One of them, okay.
unidentified		One of them.
		The blue one, geometric symbol that you had in there.
		Oh, they're going to your webmaster.
		Sure.
		Clean that up there for me.
		Have you had anybody else coming about that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, we've had a great many, not so many call-ins, but lots of email and communication about the geometric symbols, yes.
unidentified		Yeah.
		Well, I can send an email address.
		You're welcome to send stuff too.
		I'll be in town for a little while.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, here's what you do.
		You send your email address to Keith Rowland.
		That's Keith R, K-E-I-T-H-R at prime net.com.
		And he'll put your email address up there, and you can deal with your own email.
unidentified		Yes, of course.
		Get a lot of stuff there.
		I've been listening to the past couple of shows, both on the air yesterday and to real audio.
		It's kind of handy.
		And the one-foot rats.
		Now, I own three rats.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, that's a two-foot rats.
unidentified		Two-foot rats.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Excuse me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You own rats?
unidentified		I own three rats.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Three rats?
		Well, you know, why?
		Why?
		Why?
unidentified		Well, they're fairly nice creatures.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In what way?
unidentified		In what way?
unidentified		Well, these particular rats are very clean.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I mean, do you give them bass?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, how are they clean?
unidentified		Not exactly.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Give me some idea in the audience of what lovable aspects there are to rats.
unidentified		Well, the ones I have, I can say for mine, I can't say for anyone else's, are very friendly.
		I mean, they don't bother anybody else.
		They just sort of wander around their cages.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Does a rat purr?
unidentified		No, they don't purr.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No.
		Does a rat cuddle up to you and sort of?
		No, the rat doesn't cuddle up to you.
unidentified		No, they're just cute.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You mean to see?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		These are anyway.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, they're not.
		They're ugly like my dog.
		Well, I...
unidentified		Okay, so the rats are not something you like, I guess.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So then why?
		Well, I'm just wanting to understand why you like rats.
		I mean, what are the lovable aspects?
		They're cute.
		No, rats aren't cute.
		So they've got to have some lovable thing they do.
		Do they turn over on the little rat backs and put their wheels on?
unidentified		They have a wheel sort of thing.
		And I've made several little passageways from cage to cage.
		They go back and forth in, but they love their wheel, and it's just kind of interesting.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, if you talk about the rats in Chile, two feet long.
		I don't think I would own one of those.
		You could operate more than a Beijing radio with a guy who'd go round and round.
unidentified		That's a thought.
		That's a really good idea.
		You may even offer that to Beijing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, the rat radio.
unidentified		The rat radio, the rat power radio from Beijing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
unidentified		I could sell that for you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't think I could sell it.
unidentified		I appreciate your call.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He's the first one I've ever known that likes rats and thinks they're cute.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Turn your radio off, please.
unidentified		How are you?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The Eternal, turn your radio off, please.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm fine.
unidentified		I certainly surprised I got in.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, somebody has to, right?
unidentified		Sure.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, where are you?
unidentified		Wyoming.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wyoming?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's a nice state.
unidentified		Yeah, I have to listen to you on my computer out here.
		Really?
		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You should say thank you to AudioNet.
unidentified		Yes, thank you, AudioNet.
		Hey, I was looking through my Seacrane catalog.
		Yes.
		Can you recommend any of the products in there to pull in?
		What I listen to is KFAB out of Omaha.
		Right.
		And that's quite a ways away.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
unidentified		You know, it's probably.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know it's also a very, very large radio station.
unidentified		Uh-huh.
unidentified		Anything in that catalog that could do that you think would do a better job of pulling it in for me?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What do you, what kind of radio do you have?
unidentified		Just an old cheapo.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		You know, nothing fancy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Order a select antenna.
unidentified		Select antenna?
unidentified		Yep.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's in the catalog.
		Looks kind of like a frisbee with a dial in the middle.
		And that will increase your old radio's performance by about 300 or 400%.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And that'll be about all you need.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Believe me, KFAB will come slamming in.
unidentified		No kidding.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
unidentified		Well, I sure appreciate it.
		Art, I really enjoy you.
		The first time I listened to you was on the way to Las Vegas a couple summers ago.
		I took my kids to, well, we went through Las Vegas and went to Grand Canyon.
		And it was the night you had the vampire show on the middle of the summer.
		And I've listened to you ever since.
		And I can't tell you how much we enjoy the show.
		I've got my wife and kids and everybody.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That was pretty freaky.
		You remember the vampire?
		You're talking about the vampire line.
unidentified		Huh?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And we got some people calling who were really chilling.
		I mean, these people really were vampires.
		And then we got a vampire hunter, too, huh?
		Yep.
		Okay, well, listen, sir, I've got to run.
		We're at the top of the hour.
unidentified		All right, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, take care.
		We'll be right back.
		This, of course, is Coast to Coast A.M. I'm Art Bell, and Joyce Riley is just ahead.
unidentified		No one lets your face.

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