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Dec. 31, 1997 - Art Bell

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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - New Year's Predictions Night 2 (1st hour)

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art bell ▲ ● ▼		From the high desert in the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening, or good morning, or either here, as the case may be.
		And indeed, this night, the case is very different, where New York and now the Midwest, including Chicago, have just celebrated the new year.
		Here, where I'm located, in Texas country, it's still a couple of hours away.
		In Hawaii and the Tahitian Islands, where we serve to the west, it's many hours away.
		Alaska is as well, of course.
		And actually, that's an area we do serve.
		Out to the Hawaiian and Tahitian Island chains, in the west, eastward to the Caribbean.
		Good morning in St. Thomas, south into South America, north, all the way to the Pole.
		My how we've spread our wings.
		What a year it has been.
unidentified		This is Coast to Coast A.M. I'm Mark Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, we'll cover a little news, and then we will return for a final night to taking your predictions for 1998.
		This is your last opportunity to get an officially recorded prediction, which will then be sealed in the Bell Family Valley until next year when we drag it out and embarrass you with it or credit you with it.
		And I've been getting some of them wrong.
		I've bonked some things I should not have bonked and dinged a few things I shouldn't have dinged.
		But we will run through some more of what we got last year in a moment.
		First, a little bit of news.
		Of course, in New York, 500,000.
		I would like to hear from somebody in New York.
		In Times Square, they rang in the new year with 20 mile per hour winds and temperatures tumbling into the teens and wind chills of 5 degrees below zero in Tim Square.
		So I want an, well, I don't know about on-the-spot report.
		Hey, maybe there's somebody out there with a cellular telephone in Times Square still hanging on after a celebration a little more than an hour ago.
		It'd be really fun to get it.
		What if we could get a cellular call from Times Square in New York City?
		Now, that would be pretty cool.
		Let me try that.
		Everybody on the East of the Rockies line, hang up.
		The only person I want to call that East of the Rockies line right now should be somebody who either was just in or is presently in Times Square in New York City.
		So we can get an on-the-spot report about how it was.
		Because that's the big one in the big apple.
		The East of the Rockies number is 1-800-825-5033.
		Keep dialing till you get through.
		And everybody else, East of the Rockies, just hold off so I can get an on-the-spot report from Times Square, New York City.
		I think it'd be cool.
		They froze their butts off there.
		Again, if that's where you are, 1-800-825-5033.
		In other news, I'm sure you've heard by now, the 39-year-old son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy is dead.
		He was skiing and apparently on a slope at Aspen ran into a tree, which does tend to either maim or kill you, and he is dead, and the Kennedy curse continues.
		This family, no matter what you think of them, and of course any discussion of the Kennedys will evoke an awful lot of controversy one way or the other.
		Whatever you think of them, they have been cursed with generations of tragedy.
		No question about it.
		So I'm sorry.
		In California, at the stroke of midnight, now this is really, really, really interesting.
		California has a new law which will outlaw any smoking in any bar, i.e.
		place that serves liquor and beer and spirits.
		Will outlaw smoking.
		Now, any fool knows the drinking bone is connected to the smoking bone, right?
		So this means that at the very moment that Californians will be celebrating the new year, it will become not legal to be smoking the cigarette you're probably smoking.
		Can you imagine what that's going to be like?
		And I guess we're going to find out whether bars will suffer in California or pick up in business, I think suffer and suffer indeed tragically.
		And it would be interesting to hear from some barkeeps and see how they feel about it.
		Ostensibly, you know, they're saying, well, it's for the health of the barkeep and the, you know, the gals who run the drinks and all the rest of it.
		And I suppose there is something to that, but I still think the smoking bone is absolutely connected to the drinking bone.
		And I think it's a big mistake and they're going to lose a lot of business.
		But who am I?
		I'm somebody who lives here in Nevada on purpose, out of California.
		It's the last bastion of the smoker in a lot of ways, you know, and I don't know, crazy.
		I understand that last night, Sam Donaldson on Nightline making, you know, that Nightline also does an annual prediction show, and they've been doing that for several years.
		I've been doing it for about 12 now.
		After the usual politics stock market, Super Bowl Academy Award type predictions, Sam actually said that he thinks that this coming year will be the year that we make contact with an alien race, that some sort of signal would be received maybe by an array in New Mexico, as in the movie Contact or whatever.
		Do you think he was serious?
		Or one might even ask, do you think Sam knows something that we don't?
		Another earthquake, 4.8 this afternoon with seven aftershocks at Mammoth Lakes, Mammoth Lake area, and they are just swarming with earthquakes, and something big may be getting ready to happen there.
		Now, many of you will have missed the last hour of the program last night.
		I tentatively said, because I got a couple of faxes saying, hey, Art, the hospitals in Southern California, Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana, are filling up beyond capacity with people ill with flu-like symptoms.
		And I got a couple of faxes like that.
		And I had not seen anything in the media about it.
		And so I just sort of tentatively, carefully asked, because I didn't want to panic anybody, is anybody hearing about anything going on with regard to something that appears to be like the flu and is inundating people in Southern California, the hospitals?
		And the phone never stopped ringing.
		I've got email coming out my ears, faxes all over the place.
		NBC's site said the following.
		Health officials say Southland emergency rooms are overcrowded with patients suffering from the flu.
		Now be careful with that.
		I put that in quotes.
		The flu.
	According to the director of county emergency medical services, many area hospitals have requested, listen to this folks, that no more ambulance transports be received because all the hospitals are full.
	NBC4 reported that many hospitals are referring, again, I put quotes around this, they didn't, flu patients to other facilities so they can deal with more critical cases.
	Now, is it the flu?
	Well, here's another story, this one from the Sacramento B suggesting flu symptoms proliferating, emergency rooms inundated.
	That is the headline.
	Now, again, I ask, is it the flu?
	Well, here's another story.
	This time from North County Times.
	That would be Southern California, North County, San Diego.
	An infectious disease is filling doctors' offices around North County, but it's not the flu.
	Congesting lungs and waiting rooms alike, respiratory virus, or RSV, they are calling it, is keeping clinics packed this winter, but without a catchy name, it's unfamiliar to most who have it.
	People tend to call it the flu, said Dr. Stephen Carson.
	But it's not.
	It's RSV that's hitting people hard.
	Now, people don't recognize it.
	Even I don't recognize it.
	And I don't know what to think.
	In every story you read, you get something new.
	I've got so much on it here.
	Hello, Art.
	In reference to last night about the flu, I'm a courier for a major pharmacy that is all over the West.
	And the major complaint of the pharmacists is that there is a great shortage of flu medicines.
	And they're either having to deny or have prescriptions to flu victims.
	Imagine that.
	So it goes on and on.
	I've got literally hundreds and hundreds of faxes about the flu.
	And I want to tell you what I think.
	I think that they don't know what it is.
	That's what I think.
	I think it's real.
	I think the media, the major media to a large degree has been not covering this rather important story because they, well, I don't know.
	You tell me why are they not?
	I mean, there is some coverage, obviously.
	I just read you several newspaper stories.
	But in terms of large national coverage, when you have emergency rooms completely packed, hospitals with full beds, and people getting extremely sick, and I might add, in cases where it goes to pneumonia or infections of some sort, the sillins, the various sillins, are not touching it.
	So this is a very serious story.
	Now, there are a lot of people out there like my wife with respiratory illness.
	She has asthma.
	Who, if she should come into contact with somebody who's got this whatever in the hell it is, didn't somebody predict this is going to be the year it was Sean David Morton who said we're going to be saying, what the hell's going on?
	Well, it already has begun, and 1998 has not yet arrived in my time zone.
	What the hell's going on?
	So if you're in another part of the country, feel fortunate because here in the southern part of the southwest, as far east as El Paso and to the Pacific Ocean, people are very, very sick.
	All right, we are going, I'm going to roll through some more predictions made last year, and then we are going to begin taking new predictions.
	Don't forget, I want to hear from somebody out there in Times Square right now.
	I'm holding my East of the Rockies line open for somebody who was either in Times Square at that magic moment or still lingers fighting below zero wind chills.
	Only true maniacal people would do that.
	All right, Now, continuing to review some of what you all did last year.
	Prediction number 73 was that I would attain 375 affiliates by the end of the year.
	Ding, ding, ding, ding.
	We have more than that.
	We're crawling right up on 400.
	Our prediction number 74 that, oh, check this out.
	Everybody lives together in harmony.
unidentified		Bonk.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		As a matter of fact, anybody catch that very slow-speed chase of the alleged murderer earlier in the day on Highway 99?
		And boy, that was something.
		Prediction number 75.
		A useless product will be made.
		A useless product will be made.
		Well, ding, ding, ding, ding.
		There are probably many of those.
		It's a very general prediction.
		Number 76, that more information would be forthcoming on UFOs.
		Ding, ding, ding, ding.
		Certainly alone, the Phoenix incident would qualify for that.
		Number 77, art encounters aliens.
		Bonk.
		I have not yet met with an alien.
		Number 78, the Catholic Church is rocked by controversy.
		Well, ding, ding, ding, ding, but you could do that every year.
		They've been rocked year after year.
		Number 79, NASA returns to the moon.
		Bonk.
		There was, in fact, a mission to the moon, but it was a military-inspired mission, and of course, there were no men.
		Number 80, there would be a divine healing for Ramona.
		And I'm going to tentatively give that a ding, ding, ding, ding, because that's my wife, who I mentioned a little while ago, has asthma and has suffered with asthma.
		And actually, she's not had an attack in about six months.
		It's not gone altogether, mind you, but it seems rather divine.
		Number 81, that there would be a false Messiah forthcoming in the year 1997.
		Well, as far as I know, that did not happen.
		And I'm sure that'll get me.
		Faxes saying, oh, yes, it did.
		You the one.
		There would be a collision of airplanes in the Midwest.
		And as far as I know, that's a bonk.
		I'm not exactly sure.
		There were a lot of air crashes, so I'm not sure what to say there.
		So we will review more of those, but I know, oh, I know you want to get your prediction in, and so it will be here shortly.
		You'll be able to get your prediction in.
		We're going to do them all night long and see exactly what it is you think will occur in the year 1998.
		Now, what are the rules or predictions?
		A, that you only make one.
		One prediction only.
		Number two, it must be made here on the air.
		I will accept no predictions.
		I repeat no predictions by fax or email or anything else.
		That's absolutely off limits.
		Only ones made here on the air qualify.
		I will assign them a number.
		I will then seal the list and bring it out and embarrass you with it or credit you with it next year.
		So those are the rules.
		We don't screen calls.
		You can actually call up and talk about any darn thing you want.
		You don't have to make a prediction.
		I am simply offering you the opportunity to be so immortalized.
		Yesterday, we were talking about anti-gravity.
		Somebody called up and said that they thought anti-gravity would become a reality.
		And somebody's, Ron from Birmingham, Alabama, sent me a fact simply saying, Art, here's another use for the anti-gravity device.
		And then in bold print, it says trash disposal.
		Now, let us think about this a little bit.
		Trash disposal.
		He goes on with anti-gravity.
		What goes up needn't necessarily come down.
		And he's got a pretty good point there.
		So you'd simply put this little device on a trash can or even an entire landfill of trash, turn it on, and the whole pile would simply drift up and on out into space, maybe even into the sun, where it would be burned up and provide heat and light.
		I'm Art Bell, and this is Coast to Coast AM.
unidentified		Coast AM
		To talk with Art Bell from East of the Rockies, dial 1-800-825-5033.
		That's 1-800-825-5033.
		Now, here again is Art Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Once again, here I am.
		Good morning, and a good new year to you if you're in a time zone where it's already happened.
		The new year is racing across this great nation of ours, and it'll be connecting with the mountain states in about 25 minutes.
		Eastward, it's already a fact.
		Well, all right, here we go.
		Open lines, predictions, whatever you want to talk about.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Good morning.
		Where are you, please?
unidentified		I'm talking gridlock in just by Times Square.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So I've got my Times Square call.
		Yep.
		You were there at midnight.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now, the news we're getting on the wire services says the wind chilled air was about five below zero.
unidentified		I just heard that.
		I don't know if that's true.
		I know it was cold.
		I'm from Michigan.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, so then you hardly even noticed that kind of thing, I suppose, huh?
unidentified		Oh, no.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, what was the crowd?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Tell me, what was the crowd like there?
unidentified		They were pretty energized.
		I mean, It wasn't really bothering people too much.
		Everybody was partying.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, at that kind of temperature, though, it's hard to even know whether you'd feel what you're partying with, you know?
unidentified		Yeah, I guess so.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Anyway, it had to be the most exciting place to be on the planet.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I saw celebrations in Tokyo and Paris and around the world, but New York looked like the winner.
unidentified		I don't know.
unidentified		I think Tokyo might have been better.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
		They showed the best part of it on TV.
		What was it like?
		It got kind of short.
		Not as cool as New York, I thought.
unidentified		Yeah, it's probably just the media, huh?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's the media.
		Anyway, New York, very exciting.
		Half million people, they say, were there with you.
unidentified		Oh, really?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah, half a million.
		You feel quite a crowd, yeah.
		Bigger than a lot of cities in America.
		All right, my friend, thank you very much.
		Happy New Year.
unidentified		Happy New Year.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Take care.
		Oh, I should have asked him if he wanted to make a prediction.
		All right, well, then I've had my Times Square call.
		That's what I wanted.
		And so now I will free up the East of the Rockies line for all those craving to make a prediction.
		And that line again is 1-800-825-5033.
		On the first time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		Hi.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm in Tulsa, listening to you on KAKC.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		KAKC in Tulsa.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, welcome.
unidentified		Thank you.
unidentified		I'd like to make a prediction.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It will be number 57.
unidentified		57, okay.
unidentified		Next year, scientists will figure out that the chicken flu virus in Hong Kong was biologically engineered by the Chinese to see if it could be done and to test it to see how well it worked.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Ooh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you think it'll show up here?
unidentified		I don't know.
unidentified		I hope not.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Boy, I hope not, too, because the fatality is, from what I can see, pointing around 30 or 40 percent.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's a lot of us.
unidentified		It's pretty bad, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Pretty bad.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Did you hear the reporting I did on what's going on in Southern California?
unidentified		Yes, I did.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Across the Southwest.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's really freaky.
unidentified		And I wonder if that's related to the tremors y'all are having, because sometimes the dust gets kicked up out of the fissures.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		And it causes a flu-like symptom.
unidentified		Well, called it valley fever.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Valley fever.
		Yeah, I remember that.
		All right.
		Well, listen, thank you very much for the call.
		I don't know.
		I just know that authorities seem very mixed up right now.
		And in one newspaper, you'll read they think it's flu.
		Another will say flu-like symptoms.
		Others calling it some other kind of virus.
		But whatever it is, it's absolutely inundating emergency rooms and hospitals all across the southern tier of the southwest, all the way out to El Paso.
		And it is being tremendously underreported.
		So, you know, we spent the last hour of the program last night on that.
		Kind of shocking.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Hi, how's it going?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's going.
unidentified		All right, Bell, how are you doing?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Just fine.
unidentified		Great.
unidentified		Well, I'd like to make a prediction.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, where are you?
unidentified		I'm in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good old friend of mine's down there and does weather.
unidentified		It's a wonderful place down here, but I'll have to preface my prediction with my surroundings.
		I'm currently locked up in the basement of my home.
		What?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're locked up?
		Yes.
		You're actually held prisoner?
unidentified		No, I'm not held prisoner.
unidentified		I've done this on my will, by my will.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Your own will?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In other words, you have locked yourself down there for some reason of either somebody else's safety or yours.
unidentified		It's for my own safety.
unidentified		And well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Because if you were not locked down there, what would you do?
unidentified		Well, it's for my safety and for the safety of the country.
unidentified		That's why I'm trying to get the word out.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you, uh...
		Well, I don't understand what's trying to explain what's wrong.
		I mean, are you getting ready to go postal or what?
unidentified		Well, I'm worried about the seismic activity down south, which is a very strange thing.
unidentified		You know, we're not used to having seismic activity down here, but I'm very nervous about it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, if you're worried about seismic activity, then the wrong place to be would be the basement, because if you had a sudden earthquake, the house would fall on you.
unidentified		It's like a bathroom in my basement.
		So the plumbing here, I'm in the shower now.
		I have a portable phone.
		It sustains me, but I don't like to go out.
		Well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I can tell your phone's breaking up a little bit.
unidentified		Yeah, my prediction of activity.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, what is your prediction?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It'll be number 58.
unidentified		There's a lot of chemical testing that's going down here, and the cows in the pastures, they've been receiving this chemical, and so it's really messing with the environment here.
unidentified		And so the increased seepage into the ground is loosening up the tectonics, and it's making for a very obviously scary situation for you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm sorry to hear about that.
		Locked himself in his basement.
		I don't think that's a really good idea.
		If you're actually worried about an earthquake, while a bathroom might be an okay place to be, I wouldn't lock yourself up at all.
		So anyway, good luck to you.
		I don't know what to say.
		On my international line, you're on the air.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Hi, Arbel.
		Hello.
		Where are you?
		Hi, can I just put the tape in the tape deck so I can record...
		Hi, my prediction is...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Slow up.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Slow up.
unidentified		Where are you?
		I'm in the Naimo, British Columbia, sir.
		Okay.
		Have you been here?
		Yeah.
		Cool.
		No, I've called you before.
		I gave the idea for the men in black line, remember?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, is that you?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What a tremendous success that was, and I will do it again.
unidentified		Okay.
		Hi, Arbel.
		I'm just so happy to see you.
		Anyway, my prediction is, I believe that China...
		Yeah?
		Yeah, I believe that China will...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, do I have to keep saying yeah so you know I'm here, but China will...
unidentified		I believe that the People's Republic of China will take a more...
		As you see, you know, I consulted the I Ching, so I kind of cheated there.
		But anyway, it's my belief as well that I believe that the government of China will bow down to more a democracy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm not saying there'll be necessarily a democracy as we know it in Canada states but I believe that it will start to go more that way as well as you know what I think the chances of that are like a snowball in hell as Dr. Laura would say does she say that she says that pretty gracy for dr. laura yeah about pretty doesn't she get kind of rude sometimes but I like her no she's as a matter of let's see have I met her no I have not ever met her I want to meet her she is so
		funny except she looked like a space alien she does don't do her any other favors here she looks like a space alien all right well thank you uh no there is no chance uh what's going to have to happen in i was in communist china and i can tell you a lot about it i can tell you that economically they are changing and that one day they will change politically but anybody who thinks the present regime is going to bow down to public
		pressure or any pressure at all and particularly pressure from the west is out of their tree but i have faithfully nevertheless recorded your prediction as number 58 it's a scary place up there believe me it's a very scary place um west of the rockies you're on the air hi hi this is robert never hello robert how you doing fine have you a prediction uh no i want to go back on a prediction and see if
		i got it right okay what do you mean uh uh i think charlie call the wild card lines area 702-727-1295 that what that charlie demanded a raise and ramona fired him is that true or false?
		Charlie demanded a raise and Ramona Farnett false totally bonk absolute bonk I want to hear number 10 prediction number 10?
		yeah are you talking about For next year or this year?
		Which year?
unidentified		1998.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		98.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Number 10, huh?
unidentified		Or if Mr. Gosweth would say, 2003.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Number 10 is wild weather in Canada and the USA.
unidentified		Okay, my prediction is Green Bay will win and you'll get your autograph.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, thank you.
		Green Bay will win and I will get my autograph.
		If I do, I want, I've got a, I'm a big Packers fan and I've got a Packers helmet.
		And I, in the very worst way, want Brett Favre to sign it.
		And I may, I may, you never know, I may get there and I may not.
		It's going to be a long interest.
		I'm telling you, it is my prediction.
		This is my own prediction, personal one, all right?
		That 1998 is going to be one of the most tumultuous years in recorded history.
		Now, how's that for a prediction?
		I finally decided what kind of prediction I would make.
		And it's going to be in nearly every area.
		Mark my words.
		This is going to be one of the wildest years that we have ever lived.
		We'll get back to it all in a moment.
		Happy New Year, Zard.
		And you, too.
		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm in Overland Park, Kansas.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Kansas.
		Let's see.
		It's the new year.
		Almost.
		No, it is.
unidentified		47.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		We saw it on TV.
		Pretty good.
		The ball coming down.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		What, does everybody get to see that?
		And every time, though, did they just show it over?
		Did they put it back up?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Generally, the ball dropping in New York is the biggie.
		And it gets seen when it occurs live.
		And then each hour thereafter, even on the West Coast, where other things occur, they still show the ball dropping in New York.
		I mean, that's the big one.
unidentified		Oh, okay.
unidentified		I didn't know if they rose it back up or anything.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, you mean they keep dropping it for different times?
		No, I don't.
		Well, you know, I don't know, but I don't think so.
unidentified		Well, let me see.
unidentified		I got a prediction.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		The way things are going, I should predict the year of the virus.
unidentified		But I think there's going to be another UFO cult.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Another UFO what?
unidentified		Cult in April that...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		As a matter of fact, there already is one.
unidentified		Really?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And I haven't read the story on it, but this cult is assuring authorities that they don't intend to go join, as those in Rancho Santa Fe did, some UFO that they think might be out there.
		So there are UFO cults.
		And I forget where this one is.
		It might be down in Texas or something.
		But that's a good prediction.
		UFO cult.
unidentified		Okay.
		Make a different one.
		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Take care.
		Thank you very much for the call.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		Hey, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hey, yes.
unidentified		I called.
		I'm in California.
		Okay.
		I called the hospitals after you said that I thought what was a ridiculous comment about people being sick here.
		Yes.
		Because I live here, right?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		The receptionist said, are you ill?
		And I said, no.
		And she said, everybody here is the emergency room.
		It's all...
		You're absolutely right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know.
		I know I am.
		I approached...
		You know, I was so scared.
unidentified		Where did you hear that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, from all of you out there, I heard it from my listeners.
		And I finally got enough faxes on the subject that even though I know it was kind of...
		I knew it was kind of scary and dangerous ground to tread on because you don't want to panic people.
unidentified		Well, it sounds...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I wanted to find out what the truth was.
		And so I opened the lines last night.
		of the program and we were inundated i've got hundreds and thousands of responses and and now the rest of the media is beginning to pick up on it it's it's something and you are you're doing a great job keep the lines open all right i appreciate the call thank you uh it is a it is a matter for great concern there's no question about it there are a lot of people sick in the southern portion of the southwest u.s i mean a lot of people sick do they know what it is well
		it depends on the article you read in some articles they're saying it's type a flu in other articles they're saying it is not flu at all in most articles they are simply being cautious and talking about flu-like symptoms, but whatever it is, it's real, and it definitely is clogging hospitals and emergency rooms for, I don't know, what would you say?
		A couple of thousand miles across the southern U.S. southwest?
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		I'm calling from Golden, up above, in the mountains above Golden.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Golden, Colorado.
unidentified		Right, Cahaw country.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yes.
unidentified		And I believe, I hope I'm wrong, that I heard on news Monday night that they are moving the survivors of what they believe to be anthrax in Africa to Colorado.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What?
		Now, you certainly are correct.
		The latest word on the illness in Africa that appeared at first to be Ebola-related because it was hemorrhagic type fever is now thought to be anthrax.
		That is correct.
		And you're telling me that they're talking about moving them to Colorado?
unidentified		I'm almost sure that's what I heard.
unidentified		It was so short.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They would have to be out of their minds.
unidentified		I know.
		I know.
		And that's why my prediction is the year of the virus.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, gee, why not?
		Oh, you're taking the last guy's prediction, huh?
		It's a good one, too.
unidentified		He said that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, hey, you know, while we're at it, why don't we import some chickens from Hong Kong before they kill them all?
unidentified		Hey, good idea.
		Could someone, you know, in this area who heard that call and, you know, let you know if they heard that, too?
		Because I'm almost positive that they're going to kill them.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, we're going to classify it as a rumor until we get more confirmation, okay?
unidentified		Okay, great.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Why would they do that?
		Why would they bring people diagnosed with anthrax?
		And they're not even really certain of that.
unidentified		Colorado.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, sure, let's get some of the chickens.
		They've now slaughtered about three-quarters of a million chickens in Hong Kong.
		That's a lot.
		They're about halfway there.
		That's quite a bloodbath.
		And maybe it won't stop this anyhow.
		Species jumping viruses.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello there.
		Oh, turn your radio off, sir.
		Okay, sir.
		Very important.
		You've got to do that right away, otherwise you'll sound confused to the audience because you'll be hearing yourself, you know, six or seven career-saving seconds later.
		Yes, you're on the air, sir.
unidentified		Oh, wow.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I am from South Carolina.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		South Carolina?
unidentified		Yeah.
		Okay.
		And it's the second time I've ever heard your show.
		It's the first time calling.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where in South Carolina are you?
unidentified		Clinton.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, I was in Charleston on Go, and it's a beautiful place.
unidentified		I didn't think I was going to get through.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, look at it this way.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Somebody has to.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And that's why people play the lottery.
		Yeah.
		Anyway, what's on your mind?
		Do you have a prediction for that?
unidentified		Yeah, I do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		I predict that there's going to be a big push for vaccines for a lot of these immune deficiency diseases that's out there now.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		And I believe that the vaccines that they will give out will be tainted.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Gray.
unidentified		And the reason I believe that is for population control and for the coming world government.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		I believe people will be tricked into taking these vaccines thinking that they're going to be vaccinated against these diseases when, in fact, it's going to knock their immune systems down.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I think that immune systems are already severely weakened, and I think that if we want to avoid sickness, we would strengthen our immune systems rather than trying to concoct new vaccines that would prevent our immune systems from having to deal with things that build it up.
		Does that make any sense?
		Yeah.
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		Well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But you're probably right.
		They will continue to make vaccines.
		Why?
		Well, they get to charge you a lot of money when they make vaccines.
		Doctors get office visits.
		There's a lot of money there.
		I have always been highly suspicious of the cold and flu season anyway.
		Have you noticed, now I'm making no formal allegation here, but have you noticed that on TV, they're advertising cold and flu medicine before there's really been an outbreak, but inevitably just before there has been an outbreak?
		Now, I don't know about the New World Order and all the rest of it, but I am somewhat suspicious of the timing of the advertising because national advertising on TV for cold and flu medicine, oh, that costs a lot of money.
		So how do they know when we're going to start getting sick?
		In some of my darker moments, I've had visions of cold remedy, flu remedy, vice presidents, corporate types, lurking late at night near reservoirs with little vials of But I have had dreams of that sort.
		Generally corporate types, suit and tie, briefcase, probably done around the new moon.
		Pretty conspiratorial, huh?
		Do I really believe that?
		Probably not.
		Could it be true?
		Haven't you ever wondered about all that advertising, cold and flu remedies left and right?
		And they're all advertised just before the outbreak occurs.
		As a matter of fact, CNN even has sort of the little pre-warning areas where the flu is going to come, and then the larger warning areas where you'll get the flu, and so forth and so on.
		Frankly, I'm a little suspicious.

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