Art Bell kicks off Coast to Coast AM with alarming health updates—Europe and the Americas face 30%+ sperm count declines, a child’s bird flu death, and contaminated milk in the Northeast—while slamming Janet Reno’s blocked probe into Democratic fundraising. Callers propose wild schemes: Vince’s dinar counterfeiting plan to destabilize Saddam Hussein’s regime, John’s expose on Major Ed Dames’ remote-viewing profits, and Lloyd Pye’s Sumerian tablet claims vs. shredded military docs. Bell dismisses time-travel monetization concerns but leans into fringe theories, tying them to broader distrust in institutions, from vaccines to government transparency, all while hawking his autographed books. [Automatically generated summary]
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This is Coast to Coast AM.
Good morning.
There are a number of health issues that we're going to talk about in about an hour here with Dr. Robert Bogosian.
And there's some weird stuff going on out there.
Do you remember when they said sperm counts were down, male sperm counts in Europe and the Americas were down?
And it was quite a shocking thing.
And then they said, wait a minute, here's a new study, and they're not down.
As a matter of fact, they're even.
Well, now there is a newer study which says that they were down even further than they originally thought.
And so that's pretty weird.
I've got a new story on that tonight.
In Zaire, there is something new.
They're calling it monkeypox.
I don't know what it is.
We'll find out.
With regard to the flu, a three-year-old boy has just died from the flu, which he contracted.
Get this, folks.
From a bird.
A bird.
Now, what seems to be happening is that a lot of diseases appear to be doing a species jump.
There is a story about a milk problem in the Northeast.
That's right, a milk problem.
Shades of Major Ed Dames.
So I'm going to try to find out about all of this with Dr. Bogossi in the next hour.
News?
Well, Attorney General Janet Reno says she's considered the facts, everything, the law, and is not going to appoint an independent counsel to probe into what the Democrats have done with regard to fundraising.
She will continue to look at the president and vice president and what they have done.
I think rather than jack around with appointing an independent counsel, they really should do something about fundraising, period.
That's the real problem.
And the real problem is on both sides of the aisle, and every damn one of them knows it.
It really is on both sides of the aisle.
Whether or not the president or vice president made a call or two or whatever from the White House, from their office, I don't know if that's a national scandal, but the way campaigns are financed is a national scandal.
So I think they ought to just do something about the whole mess myself.
In West Paducah, Kentucky, the horror continues to unfold.
And the reasons do not.
A 14-year-old walked in with several guns and killed three of his classmates, wounded a bunch more.
Nobody knows why.
In Tennessee, a dad turns himself in for killing his four children.
Nobody really seems to know why the violence is...
And it may be in some totals.
Of course, the totals were gigantic, so anything that sees it go down a little bit is good in numbers, but the violence is different.
Now, what do I mean by that?
Well, in the old days, and I'm only 52, so the old days are not that old, there was generally a reason.
And most of the time, you were always killed by somebody you knew.
You know, a love triangle, a business, associated problem, whatever, that kind of thing.
There was a reason for a murder.
Today's violence, wherever the numbers are, is different.
People are killing each other for not discernible reasons or reasons that perhaps they have and they're not able to articulate to us.
It's crazy.
The following from Reuters, astronomers get this, said Tuesday, they had captured the image of an exploding black hole right in Earth's own Milky Way galaxy.
An exploding black hole?
They used a string of radio telescopes across Britain to capture the image of the explosion that, in fact, was predicted by Einstein's theories.
The scientists at Britain's radio astronomy lab said the black hole is at the center of a microquasar called GRS 1915 in the constellation of a quill in Eagle.
It is about 40,000 light years away, a light year being the distance, Of course, that light can travel in a year at 186,000 miles per second.
So, a black hole can explode.
That's weird.
And if that's weird, this is even stranger.
From Miami, the following Associated Press story, a woman who police believe may have fallen out of an airplane was killed after hitting a garden wall in an apartment complex on Tuesday.
Police have not the slightest idea of who she is or how she fell.
Nobody saw her fall.
They have no clue.
Residents heard a loud bang and went outside and found a woman's body had landed on a garden wall and had ripped in half.
I'm serious.
Police say she could not have fallen from a nearby 20-story building.
The tallest structure in the area.
Condition of her body indicates she fell from a much higher point.
The woman was wearing a long black shirt and black tights, had zero identification.
She was described as white, with shoulder length, black hair.
Police estimated she was in her mid-30s to late 40s.
The detective said, right now, we're still trying to figure out where we go from here.
You have to put together at least a part of the mystery before you even start in a direction.
So they don't have, you know, they're looking at fingerprints.
They're calling airports trying to figure out what might have been going on.
But this woman just fell from the sky.
Kerplunk.
And that's underdoing the sounds that must have been created when she hit.
What in the world?
One day, Bill was out raking leaves when he noticed a hearse slowly drive by.
Following the first hearse was a second hearse, which was followed by a man walking very solemnly along, followed by a dog, and then about 200 men walking in single file, intrigued.
Bill went up to the man following the second hearse and asked him who in fact was in the first hearse.
The man said, my wife.
Bill said, I'm sorry.
What happened to her?
My dog bit her and she died.
Bill then asked the man who was in the second hearse.
The man replied, my mother-in-law.
My dog bit her and she died as well.
Bill thought about this for a while, finally asking the man, can I borrow your dog?
To which the man replied, get in line.
200.
Somebody named Vince in Rimrock, Arizona, sends the following, how to stop Saddam Hussein without bombs.
And I thought we might think about this a little bit.
He says, produce perfect counterfeits of Iranian money.
I think they're dinars, dinars, whatever they are, dinars, in small denominations.
Produce millions and millions of them.
Drop them on Baghdad, along with a leaflet saying, Saddam loves you and will take care of you forever.
Rather than kill innocent people, destroy cities, why not destroy their economy?
If they were bombed into submission, the U.S. would likely fund the restoration of their economy anyway.
But would it not be more humane to restore an economy lost by people who are still alive than to have to restore an economy where thousands of people were killed and less expensive since we don't have to rebuild their bridges, roads, that sort of thing?
What do you think?
I think it's a grand idea.
We'll be right back.
Unless you live in Alaska, Hawaii, or Canada.
And then you must call Area Code 918-687-0404.
Now, what do you think of the idea of destroying Iraq's economy with their own money, than ours?
Print them up.
We could do it.
We could make them perfect.
I mean, absolutely non-discernible from their own money.
And if we poured enough of it, their economy would simply collapse before their eyes, and we would not have dropped one real bomb.
You know, your programs recently have been really quite a bit on the serious side, and they could be quite depressing, but I'd like to talk to you about some of the more funny things.
You've had me rolling over laughing at home listening to your program.
Well, either there's something serious there or they've got a grand sense of humor and they're playing along.
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And the funniest thing was when Richard Hoagland, now this was, I was rolling over listening, when Richard Hoagland said, wear your tetrahedrons and go to old Navy stores and tell them you're there for the meeting.
Well, and as well, as I answered last night, if you look at the big brouhaha going on now about all of the incredibly important documents regarding early technological development of radar and all these very important things that they have simply shredded.
I mean, shredded.
This is stuff that occurred around 50 years ago, all right?
We've got the inscriptions On the tablets from thousands and thousands of years ago, and we have lost records of some of the most important part of a current human history to a shredder.
Case closed.
I've got to run, bottom of the hour.
Thanks for the call.
This is Coast to Coast AM.
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Can you imagine falling, if that's what happened, because they really don't know, from an airplane?
Falling from an airplane and then hitting a picket fence and getting split in two.
Horrible way to go.
Or maybe not.
But I mean, she had to fall from a very long distance, which means she was probably conscious all the way down.
And I'm sure she saw the ground welling up closer and closer and closer, and then finally probably looked down and said, oh, damn, a picket fence.
She probably actually said something else, but you get the idea.
Boy, it must have been horrible.
A woman actually fell out of the sky, they think, from an airplane, and was split in two when she hit a picket fence.
It's an AP story.
This morning.
Weird.
Why would a person want to see in the dark?
Let me tell you.
There's a lot of reasons.
If there's a contest between somebody who can see in the dark and somebody who can't see in the dark, there's no contest.
You know what I mean?
I live out here in the desert where it's very dark.
They don't put a lot of lights around.
And I can see in the dark because I've got night vision from AMT.
And this is the dogondist, neatest, new product originally, of course, developed for the military.
It's the MO2.
And it is a superb, superb piece of equipment.
It lets you see in the dark.
It amplifies light 32,000 times.
It has all glass, finely ground optics.
While a lot of companies who are beginning to sell night vision scopes use plastic, guaranteed not as good, glass and finely ground optics are much, much better.
We tested every single night vision scope we could lay our gloms on, and there was no contest.
The AMT, which is produced in the San Francisco area, is the runaway, and I mean runaway best piece of gear for the money.
It's amazing.
I can go out at night and I can look at the coyotes running around.
I see them.
They don't see me.
And coyotes are pretty wily, believe me.
And rabbits, those foul little things that won't get in my yard anymore, ha ha ha, due to a rather large dog named Giza, who I'm sure would just love to have a rabbit come on my property.
Goodbye, rabbits.
Anyway, that's a long and old story, but it's the end of the rabbit problem, that's for damn sure.
Look, you can see all of this with a night vision scope, and of course there are some very serious applications, as you can imagine, if somebody's prowling around.
You can see them, and they can't see you.
Enough said.
You can see a picture of this night scope on the Seacrane Company's website, which is available through my website.
So if you wish, go take a look.
They're going to sell out immediately again.
They're very hard to keep in stock, and they are $349.95.
I suggest you move quickly.
Call Bob Crane in the morning at 7.30 a.m. at 1-800-522-8863.
1-800-522-8863.
Now, Area 51, the alien interview.
Yes, an alien interviewed at Area 51.
Did it really occur?
Victor, of course, says so, and he is the one who smuggled this footage out of Area 51.
I believe in some sort of digital format, as a matter of fact.
He is now hiding, and try as I might, I cannot get another interview from Victor.
So he really is hiding.
We've got the 65-minute total documentary on videotape, the one that Extra and Strange Universe had for just a very few seconds.
Now you get the entire interview.
It's $19.95 plus shipping and handling to order call.
1-800-510-3420.
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From Darrell in Los Angeles, the kindly person who sent me my incredible Green Bay Packers helmet, genuine helmet, which I am bound and determined to get signed by Brett Farf, Ken, writes something kind of interesting.
art, my interest in politics has reached a lifetime low.
But on occasions like now, when I'm faced with a moment of reflection, I remind myself of an observation by Mark Russell.
Quote: In Washington, truth is so precious that it is only used in emergencies.
Well, I think that's exactly right.
In Washington, truth is so precious, it's only used in emergencies.
That's a truism.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
Hello.
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Hi, Pella.
How are you doing?
Hello, I'm all right.
I would like to know if you have a mailing address, please.
There's some information I want to send you, and I'm not prepared to talk about it on the radio right now.
Well, because he didn't say everybody was going to die.
Remember?
Yeah.
So?
So then, in fact, if you think about it, it's a perfect time travel story.
If, in fact, there is going to be this horrible event, the sun or some other horrid little event, wouldn't people in the future come back and try to change that?
But the more I thought about it, the more I thought, who gives a damn?
You know, I'm glad that I did it that way, that I told it that way.
And, of course, my current book, The Quickening, which you can get in bookstores.
However, between now and Christmas, or until supplies run out, and it's going to be until supplies run out, because the stock is getting low.
But I did promise around Christmas I would do an autograph thing.
So I'm doing it.
If you would like either one or both of my books, and you get a bit of a price break if you buy both books, they're both hardback books.
None of my books are in paperback.
They're all hardback books.
Between now and Christmas, you can get an autographed copy.
And this is a rather historical moment because I am not going to do it again.
This is it.
The number to call right now, or 24 hours a day, is 1-800-864-7991.
A gazillion people have been asking me if I was going to do this at Christmas, and I promised yes for a short time at Christmas, and then it's all over because I can't do it anymore.
You know, there's not enough time in the day.
So, last call, folks.
Autographed books at 1-800-864-7991.
You can call right now.
Operators await the sound, the lovely tones of your voice at that number.
I was so disappointed, Friday, when you told that fella when the story hadn't changed, the reason I don't let people give out websites anymore is because people get in a hurry and write them down wrong and wind up in weird places.
One small ray of hope in it, at least, is the news article that I saw said that those of us who are old enough to have been vaccinated against smallpox probably won't have to worry about it.