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unidentified		Welcome to Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
unidentified		Tonight featuring Coast to Coast A.M. from January 7th, 1999.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening or good morning, as the case may be.
		And welcome to yet another edition of Weird.
		From the Hawaiian and Asian Islands outwest, eastward to the Caribbean and the U.S. Virgin Islands, South into South America, north all the way to the Pole.
		And world women on the internet.
unidentified		This is supposed to go a.m. on the market bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And tonight is going to be all open lines.
		I may have one special line that I would like to have some fun with.
		Tomorrow night will be the exact opposite.
		It will be totally guest-driven.
		Tomorrow night.
		Exposure 99.
		What are we going to have a lineup for you?
		Stephen Bassett, the only UFO lawyer, so named.
unidentified		UFO.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		See, I'm getting confused already.
		UFO lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Joseph Burmage, the gazillionaire who had a lot to do with the release of the MJ-12 documents.
		Dr. Stephen Greer, and I know a lot of you want to hear from Dr. Stephen Greer again.
		Richard C. Hoagland, Peter Gerston, William J. Burns, James, and I still can't pronounce James' last name, but he has something to do with the Society for Planetary Study Research, and Jim Mars.
		So as you can see, it's going to be a very, very full night.
		As a matter of fact, very full.
		Now, let's see what's in the news.
		Well, the entire Senate is due to go behind closed doors Friday morning to try and hash out impeachment trial details.
		I wonder if they'll do faster work when the cameras are off.
		On Thursday, with Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding, the Senate somberly placed William Jefferson.
		Clinton on trial for high crimes and misdemeanors, the first presidential impeachment in 131 years.
		The White House is promising a compelling case for acquittal.
		I wonder who their lawyer will be.
		What does Clinton need as a lawyer?
		Something about the dress fitting, you know.
		anyway um...
		let's see what else um...
		are we There is some indication that Richard Butler, you know, Onscom's guy, thinks that the U.S. might have had their fingers in what the U.N.'s been doing somehow, and I wonder if that could be true.
unidentified		Sure, that could be true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sure, it could.
		By the way, back on the subject of the President for just a moment.
		Someone just sent me the following.
		they are not predict for nineteen ninety nine that if president clinton does get thrown out of office his approval rating will go to one hundred percent it uh...
		We were talking about intelligent vegetables last night, you recall?
		Or vegetables with consciousness, or plants with consciousness, and that, of course, inevitably leads to a discussion of what vegetarians eat.
		And from Atlanta, Georgia, somebody writes the following book, I'm a vegetarian, not because I love animals, but because I hate vegetables.
		That's an email.
		Somebody also sent me, now this one strikes close to home, Nevada Power Company, a letter from, you know, I get all these power company letters.
		Everybody's writing to them.
		And I mean everybody, because listen to this.
		Nevada Power answers to this user.
		We are in receipt of your recent letter regarding the year 2000 readiness of Nevada Power Company.
		Due to numerous inquiries received daily, we are unable to respond to individual questions.
		Whenever possible, frequently asked questions will be addressed on the internet site, website address listed below.
		And they go on to say that, of course, they've implemented a program to identify correct application and systems-related 2000 issues some time ago, and we fully expect the company, this company anyway, it says, will identify date-related issues in our software, hardware, and databases, including embedded processor systems, if any, which could impact the products and services you purchase.
		Now, they do mention the possibility of unforeseen events, though they don't anticipate any power outages.
		They say there could be unforeseen events.
		So none of these letters they ever get back, except maybe from Social Security, because they claim they're compliant, right?
		Ever say, don't, not worry, we have it all under control, it's fixed.
		The only one saying that now, as far as I know, would be Social Security.
		And even they can't tell you where you would cash the check.
		Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA officials are urging the emergency management fire and emergency services communities and the public to hurry up and get ready for Y2K.
		They say it is very important that counties, municipalities, school districts, and other organizations that have not yet begun work on Y2K start now.
		That was Mike Walker, the FEMA deputy director.
		And so while they say they too don't think there will be big problems, they admit there will be some things that could happen that could actually turn into big problems.
		Remember El Nino?
		It went away, right?
unidentified		Well, maybe not.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Here's a brand new story indicating that ocean temperatures are giving scientists insights into El Niño's impact, and while they thought it was going away, they apparently still see signs that El Niño is here.
		Quoting, yet El Niño's unexpected reluctance to depart reminds scientists they still have a lot to learn about our planet's most important short-term climate oscillation.
		So this comes from the Christian Science Monitor, by the way, San Francisco.
		The greatest El Niño of the century ended abruptly six months ago or did it because satellite data is now suggesting that recovery from the record-breaking warmth that spread across the Equatorial Pacific and disrupted worldwide weather has stalled, according to the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena.
		The JPL report added a cautionary note to El Niño researchers discussions during last month's meeting.
		So in other words, boiled down to the bottom, it's still out there.
		Here's one from ABCNews.com asking, why are we confident that our sun will burn reliably for yet a few billion more years?
		Some sun-like stars have hiccuped.
		Now, what do you think that means?
		Hiccuping.
		A hiccuping star.
		Occasionally spewing out a burst of light so bright that it would melt ice on the moons of Saturn.
		Now think about that.
		Says a Yale University astronomer, Bradley Schaefer, they are very huge flares.
		I'm calling them super flares.
		You start looking at the underlying star and you find they are really disturbingly similar to our sun.
		So in other words, at any moment with no warning, here's a scientist at Yale saying there could be a super flare that, of course, obviously were we to be hit with it, that would be an Ellie, as I said in contact.
		An Ellie.
		Life-extinguishing event.
		And though I never said that I was going to read another one of these, I can't help myself.
		Someone sent me this earlier.
		A blonde was on vacation in the depths of Louisiana.
		She wanted a pair of genuine alligator shoes in the worst way, but was reluctant to pay the high prices the local vendors were asking.
		After becoming frustrated with the no-haggle attitude of the shopkeepers, the blonde shouted, I'll just go out and catch my own alligator so I can get a pair of shoes at a reasonable price.
		Well, the shopkeeper said, by all means, be my guest.
		Maybe you'll luck out and catch yourself a big one.
		So, more determined than ever, our blonde turns and heads for the swamps, set on catching herself an alligator.
		Later in the day, the shopkeeper was driving home when he spotted the woman standing waist-deep in the water, shotgun in hand, Bill's shotgun.
		Just then, comes a huge nine-foot alligator swimming rapidly toward her.
		She takes aim, kills the creature, and with a great deal of effort hauls it up onto the bank.
		Lying nearby were several more dead alligators.
		Shopkeeper watched in amazement as she flipped the alligator on its back and frustrated shouted out, damn it, this one isn't wearing any shoes either.
unidentified		Ha, ha, ha.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That does not mean that I'm starting nor soliciting a new round of blonde jokes.
		It just means, because you know what happened?
		I started getting, I found out there weren't any new blonde jokes.
		I got all the best ones, and then all I got was recycling of old ones, but this was a new one, so I couldn't resist.
		Damn it, this one isn't wearing any shoes either.
		All right, listen.
		It's all open lines tonight.
		That means anything you want to talk about.
		However, I am going to open one special line, and it will be what is normally known as my first time caller line.
		And I intend to call it the date from hell line.
		Now, I haven't dated in about a million years.
		So I wouldn't know.
		I can recall many years ago, some hellish dates.
		Boy, I'll tell you, there can be hellish dates.
		dates where, well have you ever, You know, have you ever had somebody walk in the room?
		And the moment they walk in the room, you know you hate them.
		They are the wrong kind of person for you.
		I mean, you just take an instant, absolute, inexplicable dislike to everything about them.
		Don't like the way they look, don't like the way they sound, don't like what they say, don't like their personality.
		You know, slugs of human beings, wastes of flesh and stuff.
		Can you imagine being stuck with a prison like that on a blind date?
		Yeah, that happened to me a couple of times.
		It's horrible.
		Absolutely horrible.
		Anyway, so I thought that'd be fun.
		So I hereby, until I get tired of it, appropriate my first time caller line.
		First time caller line.
		Everybody else hang up.
		Shall now be my date from hell line.
		It's giving equal opportunity to men and women calling in.
		And then there's even the more subtle date from hell when you begin finding out about the person.
		You find out you have absolutely nothing in common.
		Everything you love, she hates.
		Everything she loves, you hate.
		And yet you are now companioned with this person for the better part of a terrible evening.
		And then, of course, there are disasters that occur during even a good date.
		Sometimes real disasters.
		anyway that's what that line is going to be tonight and we will be back with open lines in a moment the the I had a really interesting conversation with Larry King earlier today on the phone.
		Maybe, maybe, I'm going to go on Larry King's show.
		Larry King did this program, you know, prior.
		Well, he didn't do this program.
		He did a late back program for years and years and years and years, and we have a lot in common.
		And we would like to talk about that.
		I think that might be fun.
		So I'm contemplating that.
		Larry King Live.
		But I think that what I'm going to do is say, well, I'll go there if you'll come on my show and be, you know, do a guest thing on my show.
		Now, how many years has it been since he's been back on nighttime radio?
		It'd be kind of fun to get him here to interview him.
		Turn the tables.
		That's what I've been thinking about today.
		Since earlier when I talked with him, he was a very nice chap.
		But I thought maybe that would be fun.
		What do you think?
		Say, sure, I'll do it.
		If you'll come on my show.
		And, like, talk to callers.
		Open line, no holes barred.
		That'd be fun.
		So I'm thinking about that.
		On my date from hell line, you're on the air.
		Hello?
unidentified		Hello?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm Steve.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's who you are.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		Las Vegas.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Las Vegas?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Over the hill.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		Have you ever had a date from hell?
unidentified		A date from hell?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Steve, turn your radio off.
		See, otherwise it will turn into the call.
unidentified		Okay, it's off.
		Yeah, and like I was saying, kind of a semantic thing.
		When people think date from hell, it's like, in my case, being a male, it would be her.
		She was the date from hell, but most of the dates from hell that I've had were because, you know, coming up when you're younger, you know, dating, because I didn't know what to do.
		I didn't know what to say, and you're exploring the whole thing.
		And it can be a real nightmare where you're not going to be able to do it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That is hella.
unidentified		You're just sitting there agonizing.
		What do I do?
		What do I say?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know.
		I know.
		And the longer you sit there not knowing what to say, she's probably sitting there thinking to herself, what's with this guy?
unidentified		And she goes back to her friends, and then I'm the date from hell.
unidentified		And probably the worst one was one time, David Bowie concert.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		David Bowie.
unidentified		Dad's car.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Everything's going fine.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Get to the gate.
		Forgot the tickets.
		Oh, man.
		That's the point I had to make, that the date from hell can...
		It was like one of those things where you go through your wallet and it's like all of a sudden a lightning bolt hits you and it's like, my God.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How, pray tell, how did you break that to her?
unidentified		And how did she take it?
		She was a trooper.
		so beckon that should fail respect the house got the tickets came back this the opening act you know it uh...
		ended up pretty good but uh...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		the whole point in making it eight from hill initially mean that they It means that hell, even the one down there with the fire and all that, is probably of our own making.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I gotta run.
unidentified		The hell on Earth thing.
		You got it.
		Absolutely.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		See ya.
unidentified		This is Coast to Coast A.M. If you're listening to our bell, somewhere in time, tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from January 7th, 1999.
		Thank you.
		Thank you.
		Some loving had me a blessed loving happen.
		I met a girl crazy for me.
		Never mind you to me.
		From the days, dripping away, the whole summer night.
		Well, well, well, I'm rich.
		Tell me more, tell me more, get your chicken and every part.
		Tell me more, tell me more, why can't we have a food?
		Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
		She's the family, she got a crown.
		Here I find the girl who got one to tell.
		She's the life, she nearly drowned.
		You know, the rock's flashing around Some sun, some sun, blue, blue, blue, blue For this stuff on her nights Tell me more, tell me more What's
		up, I just want Tell me more, tell me more Me too, what a fuck for you To the morning, in the arcade We were some trash lemonade We went out to the dark
		You're listening to ourselves somewhere in time on Free Youth Radio Networks tonight, an on-court presentation of Coast to Coast AM from January 7th, 1999.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Once again, here I am, and we are doing the Date from Hell Live.
unidentified		Did you talk about your dates when you were a teen?
unidentified		Or do you if you are one?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is that done these days?
unidentified		I wouldn't know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		On my date from hell line, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hey, Art, the blind date from hell, it's a double blind date from hell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A double blind date from hell?
unidentified		Yes, my friend and I had season tickets at the Denver Nuggets the last year they went to the playoffs.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I take it you're calling from Denver.
unidentified		Denver, right.
		I'm Bob.
		Yeah, by the way, they settled the strike, huh?
		Yeah, 52-game season.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What a bummer.
unidentified		I'm not going to go.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Angry fan.
unidentified		Across the aisle from us the whole season was two other season ticket holders, two women, two lesbians.
		And one day I couldn't show up to the game one night.
		My friend brought a girlfriend.
		And in those two seats, they had given their tickets to two friends.
		And he told me, we were looking for wives.
		And he told me that there were two gorgeous women in those seats.
		And so I said, well, did you set us up a double date?
		And he said, no, I couldn't.
		I was with a date.
		So the next game, the two lesbians were back.
		And I told him I was going to set us up a date.
		And he didn't believe me.
		So I went over and talked to them.
		And sure enough, they had given their tickets to two girls they knew who were straight.
		And I asked them if we could get their phone numbers.
		And sure enough, they checked.
		And the next game, we got their numbers.
		And we set up a double date.
		And that night, I happened to be on a Denver TV show the night before our double date.
		Really?
		And the issue was homosexuality.
		And I have to say, I really sort of, I'm not very pro-homosexuality.
		And we were talking about a homosexual who died that week in the news.
		And the bumper music we used was Freddie Mercury singing Another One Bites the Dust.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's not really very funny.
unidentified		No, it's not funny at all.
unidentified		And that's the eighth anthem, that song, because the whole point of that song, he was saying people do things and people get killed, and we should change our behavior so people don't die needlessly.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yep, I got you.
		Well, you know, I've got to say this.
		I'm thankful, really thankful, that I'm not dating now.
		When I was young, you could do stupid things, but you weren't going to die.
		You know, you might have to make a visit to the clinic or something to clear somewhere or another up.
		But the sentence for sex was not death.
		And that's really too bad, isn't it?
		That's one of the things you have to be concerned about today is getting a deadly disease.
		Wildcard line, you're on here.
unidentified		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, Art Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Good morning.
		This is Greg in St. Louis on the Big 550 KTRS.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		I was wondering, I was looking on the website yesterday, and I saw the transcript of the conversation with Hoagland, and I guess I think it said an unidentified source in the military about some kind of a strategic strike that was going to come along.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no, no, no.
		It was a letter that I read.
		That's the transcript that you read, yes.
unidentified		Oh, is there anything to that, do you think?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, I think there is.
unidentified		Does he mean a nuclear strike?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't think so, no.
unidentified		Okay, and one other thing, I sent you a letter a few weeks ago.
		I know you get tons of mail, but I had an idea for a deep space project that might help us modify the climate.
		Did you ever notice that in your mail?
		No.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What would it do?
unidentified		Well, it would be like a large, well, it's kind of hard to explain in a short amount of time, But it would be a lightweight square orbiting about maybe four times the distance out from the moon,
unidentified		and it would be divided up into sectors with like Venetian blinds over it, which filter out the ultraviolet, and then it could control the sunlight going through so that we could.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You mean a sun filter for the Earth?
unidentified		Right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I exactly get what you're saying.
		It would certainly modify our climate, all right.
		You could bring on another Ice Age or...
		Yeah, but, but, but, sir.
		There's a big but here.
		SOHO, the satellite they've got monitoring our sun right now, has been on and off and on and off, fixed and broken, fixed and broken, fixed and broken.
		And if we had something out there, I see exactly what you're saying, that would, if you put it out at the right distance, it would literally shade the entire Earth or filter out whatever you want to filter out.
unidentified		But with our side, I've got you.
unidentified		The quadrants.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Quadrants, yeah, depending on the quadrant.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But see, the problem is that what if it broke with the shades closed?
unidentified		Well, I was figuring that would probably have to have a permanent crew of several people to maintain it out there.
unidentified		They would have to rotate in and out.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I see.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So it would be a manned affair.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Actually, that's kind of an intriguing idea.
		Thank you.
		At first blush, it sounds crazy, but why, really?
		Think about what the man said.
		He said you get a spacecraft out there far enough, just the right distance between the Earth and the Sun, some number of moon lengths from the Earth, and you literally, at that point, filter all light that would be moving toward the Earth in the way you desired, and that really actually might work.
		What do I know?
		I'm just a tonsho host, but it might work.
		It's just one of those things that I don't think I would trust.
		I really don't think I would trust it.
		Could that be done?
		Is there any physicist in the audience who could tell me if that would actually be possible?
		It does seem like it would be possible.
		On the date from Hellline, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello, is this our Bell?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This is me, yes.
unidentified		Should I turn down my radio?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Turn it off, actually.
unidentified		Okay, well, be a second.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		It's important to do that, folks.
		Otherwise, it's confusing because you'll hear yourself delayed.
unidentified		Hello, Mr. Bill.
		Hello.
		I'm calling you because, of course, you have a fascinating show, and I feel you're a very informed man because of your unique situation.
		And I had a specific question for you.
		Over the last several months, many of these Internet stocks have been soaring into the stratosphere.
		You bet.
		Accumulating values into the billions and volatile, if you've been watching them.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And when the market is not doing so well, the Internet stocks tend to be the first to go.
unidentified		Yes, you're right.
		But I was wondering what you thought, or if you had any other listeners that would be able to answer my question from a legal point of view, eventually, like, for example, Amazon.com, which has yet to see a dollar in profit, and their losses are mounting, I was wondering what would happen,
		well, God forbid, one day the day of reckoning came and basically these stocks crashed and taking with them maybe trillions of dollars in pent-up investor hopes and dreams, would the brokerages that have been recommending them week after week through publicity be legally and morally responsible?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Not at all.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Caveat emptor.
unidentified		Oh, okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, come on now.
		Any stock, even coming to Las Vegas here near me, caveat emptur.
		Buyer beware, right?
		Buyer beware, so you know, you're rolling dice.
		The stock market is not a hell of a lot different than Las Vegas.
unidentified		You're right, it's very close now.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		All right, thank you.
		Actually, it's extremely close when you talk about some of the newer schemes for the market.
		It's just like Vegas.
		I'm still thinking about that satellite idea.
		You could control the amount of ultraviolet getting through.
		You could make a shadowy day.
		Make it cooler, make it warmer.
		No, you couldn't make it warmer.
		Unless you had a giant magnifying glass.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Good morning, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good morning.
unidentified		This is James Collin from Near Atlanta, Georgia.
		Listening to you on 6.40 a.m.
		105.7 News Radio, WGST.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's the way to do a promo.
unidentified		yes i got just so happened yet well forgets my point on just have a poor mile old greece album from the seventies i got my birthday and i've got the complete soundtrack album yes so do i if you could please please please plant frankie valley to it again degrees Yes.
		My question, got me there yesterday morning.
		I was listening to the radio, and I don't know if you've heard a story that there's a report out of Southern California, Orange County, that there had been fire ants reported.
		Don't know if you've heard anything about that yet.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I've heard about that.
unidentified		They had a big write-up in the U.S. Say Today article last month about it, and I was kind of astonishing because I just moved here from Southern California a few months ago.
		Down here in the South, fire ants just peripherate everywhere.
		They cover about the whole region down here.
		You can't miss them hardly, especially out in the summertime, whether you're out in your front lawn or out in the grass somewhere.
		They're just all over the place.
		They kill animals pretty rapidly at times, too.
		They really are a big menace down here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I've had a few encounters with fire ants.
		The fire ants are really bad.
		And if you step in the wrong place you can have fire ants um at about crotch level in I don't know a minute and a half and it's it's pretty exciting for a while.
		I mean it's it's really horrible.
		If you get in the wrong place uh I did that a couple of times East of the Rockies you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello?
unidentified		You see Mr. Bell I have a way to bypass all your callers.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No you don't.
unidentified		Yes I do.
unidentified		It's Tommy from Brooklyn.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hey Tommy.
unidentified		You know I do.
		I have the secret power.
		I have the secret button.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Maybe.
unidentified		Do you know your first time call line?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		When you get sick of it, could you do me one favor, please, and I'll leave you all for like a week?
		What?
		Could you make it the Curtis Lewis supporter or non-supporter line?
		Just to see how many of your listeners support or don't support a Curtis Lewis?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Here's an important thing, though.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Why do I care?
unidentified		I do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know, but why?
unidentified		I wouldn't expect you to care.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But why?
unidentified		I just want to know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But I mean, why do you care?
unidentified		I'm curious to see.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, why doesn't Curtis run that?
unidentified		He does.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He does?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The Curtis Lewis support line he has?
unidentified		No, he has the hot belt support line.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He does?
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		And they kill him every night.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You've got to be kidding.
unidentified		No, they destroy him every night.
		Your listeners are ruthless.
		People out there are ruthless.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are they, really?
unidentified		Yeah.
		Oh, man.
		You have no clue.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		When's Curtis making his move to the mornings?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I want his first hour.
unidentified		Oh, no, Mr. Bell.
		It's not.
		Starting on, what is it, January 25th?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		January.
		Okay, I'll bear that in mind.
		January 25th.
unidentified		Oh, Rocky Allen's coming in.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Rocky Allen?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So Curtis is not going to the mornings?
unidentified		Nope, he's coming back tonight.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, then I want his next hour.
unidentified		You can't have it.
unidentified		That's totally up to the listeners.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You ever have a date from hell, Tommy?
unidentified		Oh.
unidentified		I picked up this blind date.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		One tooth and three fingers.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, you lie.
unidentified		You lie.
		I'm not lying.
		They told me she was gorgeous, man.
		I played the great nights.
		We were going out to play miniature golf.
		How do you do it?
		You know, she had three fingers.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you serious?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, an obvious question is, how did this poor lass lose her fingers?
unidentified		Did you ask?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Did you even ask?
unidentified		No.
		Not at all.
		I think she was born that way.
		I'm serious.
		Hey, if I send you 50 bucks, could you, like, during the break, go downstairs and play Red 27 for me?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Red 27.
unidentified		Red 27.
unidentified		Well, do me the favor.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Goodbye, Tommy.
unidentified		Take care.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You see, Curtis maintains that I don't do my show from Perrump, Nevada.
		Curtis is telling the audience back in New York that I do the show from the top of some hotel in Las Vegas.
		I don't know.
		I think he spent too much time inhaling subway fumes or something.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
unidentified		Hey, Artfell, it's Vince in Chicago.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hey, Vince.
unidentified		It's been a long time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it has.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How are you doing?
unidentified		I'm doing all right.
unidentified		You know, with this Y2K coming up, Art, I was on the grassy knoll, your chat room over there on America Online.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Ah, yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where anarchy reigns.
unidentified		Right.
		I met a fellow.
		I read one of his books years ago.
		He's a very interesting author by the name of Ralph Epperson.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		He wrote the book called The Unseen Hand.
unidentified		Did you ever read that art?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No.
unidentified		It's one of the greatest books ever, exposing the unseen forces behind the world events conspiracy and whatnot.
		But he was saying that Mr. Epperson was saying that the New World Order is going to come out of the chaos of the Y2K event.
		The New World Order is like 358 days away.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't buy it.
unidentified		But he wrote this book called The New World Order.
		I haven't read it yet, but I ordered it.
		And I think he'd make a great guess.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He might.
		He might.
		But I really don't buy into the New World.
		Someday, there will be one.
		Not when you're alive, not while I'm alive, not while our children are alive, but far into the future, there will be.
		It's a natural thing.
		But it's not going to come overnight through some, at least in my estimation, some emergency like Y2K or whatever else might come along.
		I don't think so.
unidentified		Well, you know, the New World Order, they might try to bring it out of the chaos.
		If there is chaos, you know, if all the power goes out, that would be the most opportune time.
		And I think you ought to look into this Ralph Epperson.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Have you ever thought that a one-world order might be a good thing?
unidentified		I don't think it would be so good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Why not?
unidentified		Well, there'd be nowhere to hide.
		I mean, Big Brother would be everywhere.
		You know, I really don't understand a new world order.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'm just experimenting with this idea intellectually here.
		There would be no more wars.
		Because you're not going to fight yourself.
		Right?
unidentified		Yeah, but you won't have any freedom.
		We'll all be slaves.
		We're going to have to listen to whatever.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but what if the New World Order embraced U.S. constitutional rights and even perhaps going beyond that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Then what?
unidentified		You know, you're absolutely right.
unidentified		If the New World Order meant embracing the Bill of Rights and bringing it all over the world to countries like China.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, yeah, yeah.
unidentified		Even then I would be for the New World Order.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		There you are.
		Even possibly strengthening them and going beyond what we have now.
		I mean, we've got a few problems even now.
		All right, well, listen, we've got to hold it right there, Vince, for now.
		I just want you to think about that.
		Tonight's secret numbers, by the way, are 101, 77, and 18.
		That's 101, 77, and 18.
		those are important numbers love is good love is strong we gotta get right back to where we started on Those who finally encode all my numbers will know the world's great secrets.
unidentified		You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time on Premier Radio Networks.
		Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from January 7, 1999.
		And if you get hurt, if you get hurt by the little things like me, I can put that smile back on your face.
		When it's all right and it's coming on, we've got to get right back to where we started from.
		Love is good, love will be strong, we've got to get right back to where we started from.
		Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
		Like I, like I. You never made a fair.
		And the winds only got in dreams.
		Why don't they understand?
		It's just a crime and shame.
		Well, it's a lion only we're real.
		We stop and find right now.
		We got to be what we feel.
		We see the word.
		It's our feeling.
		This is the time.
		It's a way to emotion.
		We're the way we are feeling.
		We take the pressure and we throw away conventionality.
		Belongs to younger days.
		There is a chance we can make it far.
		We start to leave it now.
		We can be who we are.
		We give word.
		It's got meaning.
		It's the time, it's the place, it's the motion.
		We do the way we are feeling This is a life of illusion Cracked up with trouble Makes me confused Premier.
		Radio Networks presents Art Bell Somewhere in Thought.
		Tonight's program originally aired January 7th, 1999.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, the press is going on trial tomorrow.
		You're not going to learn anything new because the Senate is going to have a closed-door session to decide how they're going to do whatever it is they're going to do.
		So you're not going to see much tomorrow.
		Too bad.
		I'm wondering if they're going to close this thing to the American public and we're not going to be able to see it.
		Me, I want a nice spectacle to be able to watch during the daytime when I'm awake.
		Instead of the usual daytime fare, I realize it will upset zillions of housewives across the nation.
		But who cares?
		anyway we'll be right back with whatever it is you want to talk about the Sometimes, you know, you listen to Ed Dames and you say, ah, Ed Dames.
		Remember he was talking about a flare from the sun?
		Well, today I'm bombarded.
		I mean, I am just bombarded with, here, for example, in the Los Angeles Times today.
		The Los Angeles Times.
		The article is, some stars emit destructive flares.
		Astronomy, cold.
		If our sun produced such phenomena, they would destroy Earth's ozone layer.
		Scientists call it unlikely.
		Now, you talk, you know, about these things, and they seem far out and impossible, and then all of a sudden, months later, the media is now being flooded with what the sun is doing or might do, and scientists are speculating about an LE from the sun, you know, something that would end all life.
		An extinction-level event, I believe it was, right?
		We're also doing our date from hell line, just because I feel like doing that tonight.
		Art Bell, I've been trying to call you for three years, over three years, it says.
		I'm listening to you on KBC.
		Are you live?
		Of course I'm live.
		There's a big rumor going around that I'm not live.
		I'm live.
		Today is, here on the West Coast, 1799 at 11.14 and 45 seconds.
		Does that convince you, Gene?
		Probably not.
		On my date from Hell Ein, you're on the air.
		Hello there.
unidentified		Thanks, Ari.
unidentified		Thanks for having me on.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sure.
unidentified		My name is Philip.
unidentified		I'm calling from OWTMG in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yes.
unidentified		And I'm in my 30s now, but back in my 20s.
		Apparently, a lot of females just think I was cute.
		I don't know how you feel when you get called cute, but it's good and it's bad.
		It's not manly, but it's like you got to be cute.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I wouldn't know the feeling.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I wouldn't know the feeling.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Nobody ever calls me cute.
unidentified		I will.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm not cute.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you were cute, though, huh?
unidentified		I were cute.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You were cute.
unidentified		Back in my 20s, when I were cute, oh, I dated, like, these I went out with these really attractive and spoiled women, like, like, you know, pretty much equally separated within a six-week period.
		And they wanted to go out with me because I was cute.
		So we went out and Did you feel like a piece of meat?
		That's a big part of it.
		You're right on the money.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		Anyway, they wanted to go out with me because I was cute.
		So we had these great dates.
		We had like these great, we started the dates like at noon.
		And we had these great dates.
		We went to dinner, ball games, went dancing, and we saw concerts, all that stuff.
		And they got to meet all their friends, you know, just kind of mysteriously while we were out.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sure.
unidentified		And so we went home and all three times we went home together.
		And I was called cute between probably 30 and 40 times that night.
		And then later on, I really wanted to date a girl and get married and buy a house and that stuff.
		But no, they wanted to date cute guys.
		And the situation was that, you know, I finally got around to saying, I'd like a girlfriend so I can bring them home to see my parents.
		And I got the same line.
		It's like, oh, you're a really nice guy, but I'm not interested in dating anybody in particular right now.
		Anyway, so I've been left emotionally scarred and really screwed up from that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Emotionally scarred by being cute.
		All right, well, look, I appreciate your call.
		Thank you.
		That's a problem I never had.
		I was never cute.
		I'm still not cute.
		And I, you know, I wonder what that problem would be like to have the problem of being cute.
		A truly beautiful person.
		It's a problem I wouldn't know about.
		No one has ever, ever called me cute.
		Well, maybe when I was in diapers and crawling around and tipping over ashtrays, but, you know, nothing I remember.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hi, Art Pell.
		How are you?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm okay.
unidentified		Good.
unidentified		This is Lynn from Homer.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Homer, Alaska?
unidentified		Alaska.
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		And the first time I called was Speaking Wind, and I'm so sorry to hear about him.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Speaking Wind has passed on.
unidentified		I know.
		I'm very, very sorry to hear that.
		I was real disturbed by that.
		I was listening yesterday, and Michael Thoreau, is that his name?
		Yes.
		Yes.
		He was mentioning the fifth element ether.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		What is it?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		I think it's spirit.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Spirit?
		The spirit world, all right, thank you.
		Well, it could easily be the spirit world.
		It could be a different dimension.
		What we think of as the ether.
		It could be a different dimension.
		And most mainstream theoretical physicists now are leaning toward multi-dimensional theory as what really is the case.
		And so, yeah, it could easily be.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Good morning.
		Who is this?
unidentified		What part?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Turn your radio off, please.
unidentified		This Art Bell?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, yes.
unidentified		I was going to ask you if you could ask Richard Hoagland at the space station just up there to store DNA just in case something big happens.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I don't think he'd know about that, but you raise an interesting point.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In other words, to store human DNA in case somehow the planet becomes sterilized and we're all gone.
unidentified		That's right.
		And is the government working that way?
		Like they set fires to put them out?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And whose DNA do you think they would choose to put them?
unidentified		I don't think they'd choose mine.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Maybe yours.
		I doubt that.
		I'm not cute.
unidentified		Neither am I. No, I've been thinking about that, and I was thinking that, you know, all these fires getting started and melting the polar cap.
unidentified		If they melt the polar cap, knowing if they knew asteroids were coming, they would probably want it to hit water, not land.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I don't know.
		Both are, thank you.
		Both are considered equally catastrophic.
		Land may be a little worse because it would throw up so much dirt and grit that would block out the sun that would have catastrophic results on our weather for those that remained alive.
		If it hit water, of course, why a lot of our coastal cities are immediate toast.
		So a couple of bad options, but I guess water might be better from my point of view here in Nevada anyway.
		West of the Rockies, you're on here.
		Hi.
unidentified		Hi, Art Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		How are you doing tonight?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm fine.
unidentified		Good.
		I want to talk about your little bad date things.
		How about a bad relationship?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, sure.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, a relationship is nothing but an extended date anyway, right?
unidentified		Exactly.
		How about a year of a bad relationship where he kicks you out Christmas Eve?
		Oh, no.
		Yeah, Christmas Eve.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, no.
unidentified		No, no.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Lately, companies have been laying people off.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Like, right at Christmas, that's a new thing, but getting thrown out of your home on Christmas Eve.
unidentified		Christmas Eve, okay?
		Two new, brand new kitties.
		It's snowing like just, you would not believe up here in Great Falls, Montana.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You mean you had your cats with you?
unidentified		No, he kept my kitties.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He kept your cats?
unidentified		He kept my cats.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And threw you out.
unidentified		And threw me out.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Into the snow.
unidentified		In the snow.
		In the snow.
		Like, get out.
		I don't love you anymore.
		I've cheated on you seven times.
		I'm a weird-looking woman.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wait a minute.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He said he cheated on you seven times?
unidentified		Uh-huh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And he threw you out?
unidentified		He threw me out.
		So now I'm staying with my little brothers.
		The first time I ever heard the radio show, so I was like, okay, I got to call this guy.
		What kind of perverted justice is that?
		It's called, I'm a producer and I make lots of money and you are nothing.
		It's what that's called.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, he's a producer.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you a starlet?
unidentified		Am I a starlet?
		No, I'm just one of those lonely minions who have to work every day.
		You know, I can't work.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No pun intended.
		That's one of the coldest things I've ever heard.
		Christmas Eve, snowing.
		And he throws, you physically threw you out.
unidentified		Physically threw me out.
unidentified		My stuff was waiting on the porch for me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's one sad story.
unidentified		I know.
unidentified		I feel pity for myself.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you feel like you've learned a lesson in life because of this?
unidentified		Big time.
unidentified		I think I'm going for women next time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, God.
		You know, I was about to ask you.
		Hasn't turned you against all men, has it?
unidentified		No, men are great.
		Hey, you guys are the reason why I breathe every day.
		You know, but, you know, you talk about bad dates, you know, and dates from hell.
		I would love to have a date From hell right now, it'd give me a really good laugh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In other words, a date from hell is better than no date at all.
unidentified		Exactly.
		Well, no, I'm not saying that necessarily.
		I'm saying that a date from hell would be more humorous than a relationship from hell.
		Yeah, you've at least I could walk away with a good laugh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You've got a pretty good point.
		That's a cold S-O-B, I'll tell you.
		All right, thank you very much.
unidentified		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'll see you.
		Can you imagine that she comes home, you tell her that you've cheated on her seven times, and so get the hell out.
		Here's your stuff.
		It's snow out there.
		It's probably zero or below zero.
		And then he keeps your cats.
		See how cold people are?
		I mean, that's about as cold as you can get.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Yeah, hi, all right.
		Hello.
		Christine from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, ma'am.
unidentified		KKOB.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, the monster, KKOB.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Yes.
		I want to ask you two questions.
		Why haven't we gone back to the moon?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're asking me why we haven't gone back to the moon.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I could give you two possible answers and let you pick between them, alright?
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Number one, we found absolutely nothing of interest on the moon.
		It's a barren, pitted rock.
		Two, we found something incredibly important on the moon that would change mankind's knowledge about its own origins.
		And we're not ready for that information to get out yet.
		Which one do you choose?
unidentified		I think the second one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The second one?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The conspiratorial version.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What do you think we found?
unidentified		Oh, geez.
unidentified		That's a hard question.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, I know.
unidentified		Now I'm asking you that question, too.
unidentified		I don't know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		well if you uh...
		take your cue thank you from two thousand one space odyssey it would have been an obelisk and it may be that uh...
		And when you reach them, they would send out a signal.
		So why haven't we been back to the moon?
		I don't know.
		What's your choice?
		On my date from Hellline, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		I'm Barbara from KOMO in Seattle.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Barbara.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		I can hardly hear you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'll try and yell a little bit.
unidentified		Okay, thank you.
		I just wanted to call in because first I wanted to tell you that my husband considers me an Art Bell widow.
		He's an Art Bell widow.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		Yeah, he introduced me to you.
		And the second is, I was the date from hell.
		I had a blind date when I was a teenager.
		Yes.
		And we ended up going down on the beach.
		And as we were walking along the beach, I saw Clorox bottle.
		And I picked it up and I swung my arm back to throw it out in the water.
		And I hit this guy in the face and broke his nose.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
unidentified		And we were like, you know, he's laying on the beach and I don't know how to drive.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Probably the blood's pouring out.
unidentified		All over, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
unidentified		And so I'm trying to get it to stop, you know.
		And so a few hours later, you know, he finally get out of there.
		And I saw him, oh, I don't know, I think like a month later, and he wouldn't get like five feet.
		He saw me and said, hi, and stop.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you've got to heave this bottle and connect directly with his nose, huh?
unidentified		Yep.
unidentified		I decided I should call and let you know that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		When you did see him again, did he look the same?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, a lot of times when your nose is broken, you never really look quite the same again.
unidentified		Yeah, he did.
		He did.
		He did healed up.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's something.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, thank you, dear.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Bye-bye.
		Can you imagine that?
		Having to rush to the hospital your date because you just broke their nose.
		When you break your nose, there's a lot of bleeding that goes on.
		what was that movie where it was so so funny it was Chevy Chase in one of the it was I don't think was any vacation movies he did but it was Anyway, he had supernatural powers.
		And just say it.
		Modern Problems.
		Yeah, that was a movie.
		That's my wife.
		She's only watched it 16 times.
		One of the funniest scenes that I've ever seen in my whole life was when Chevy was sitting there, and he caused this guy who was at a table with the gal that he wanted to be with to begin having a nosebleed.
		Now, this is not your average nosebleed.
		By the time it was over, it looked like the carotid artery had been cut and was pouring straight out of this guy's nose.
		Oh, it was horrible.
		And you can imagine the people in the restaurant, probably a lot of you have seen that scene.
		That's kind of what that reminded me of when that young lady just told me about her date.
		On the international line, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Yes, hello, Art.
		I'm just following up the call from the guy in Winnipeg a little while ago.
		Yes.
		This is Ryan from Edmonton in Kansas.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, Ryan.
unidentified		And I live in Summerland, which is actually in B.C. It's a small town.
		And I found out that all of the RCMP officers in there are given no holiday leave from New Year's until I think it's April of year 2000 to handle with whatever problems there may be.
		And I'm talking like a town with 10,000 people in it only.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What the heck?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Why all of this readiness in Canada?
unidentified		And this is in the paper, too.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I know, I know, I know, I know.
		I've seen the articles.
		But I mean, why do you think your government is reacting so strongly compared to ours down here?
unidentified		Yeah, I have no idea.
unidentified		Why would maybe it's our I don't know, our laid-backedness or something.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This is not a laid-back action.
unidentified		Yeah, that's what I was just thinking when you said that they don't riot.
		I remember when Vancouver got knocked out of the playoffs and there was riots in the streets of Vancouver.
		I think that was in 1994.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They rioted because they got knocked out?
unidentified		Yeah, yeah.
unidentified		I mean, that's hockey, though.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, they didn't riot in Green Bay when And they probably should have, too.
		I almost rioted here for them.
		All right, listen, I gotta run.
		Thank you.
		We're at the bottom of the hour.
		That was such a rip-off.
		I hope you 49er fans are happy.
		I don't see how you can possibly go into the playoffs with your heads held high, knowing your team earned its way into the playoffs, not after what I saw.
		No, sir, Reese, sir.
		Yeah, I almost threw something in support of Green Bay in my living room, but I didn't.
		I didn't.
		I'm Art Bell, and this is Coast to Coast AM.
unidentified		You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
		Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from January 7, 1999.
		Music by Ben Thede.
		I don't get asking what's going on.
		I don't hear gas, get it started, stop me.
		Don't say that you love me.
		I don't hear gas, get it started, stop me.
		I don't hear gas, get it started, stop me.
		You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time on Premier Radio Networks.
		Tonight, an oncour presentation of Host to Coast AM from January 7th, 1999.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		By the way, they're changing my area code.
		What a pain in the butt that is.
		Let me tell you, I'm going to have to have Ross do new bumpers for me, and I'm going to have a whole new area code.
		Las Vegas will remain 702, but the rest of us in the outlying districts are going to have a new area code.
		Something like 775 or something like that.
		They changed my zip code.
		They changed my area code.
		Tomorrow I'll probably get mail and I'll have a new social security number or something.
unidentified		The End On my date from Hellline, you're on the air.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		This is Matt in Atlanta.
unidentified		I listen to you on WGST.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hey, Matt, how you doing?
unidentified		Good, thank you.
		Got a real weird one.
		It's kind of terrible that I call all the time when you're on a topic, on a more important topic, but nevertheless, I wanted to share this.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This is a very important topic.
unidentified		Yeah, but you know how it is sometimes when you're talking about other issues besides the dates.
		But what happened was a few years ago, there was a young lady, beautiful, beautiful, I mean just undescribably beautiful, and I'd gotten to know her through conversations and whatnot, so we started dating.
		And we'd been on dates for a few weeks, you know, movies, dinner, whatnot.
		And so on this particular date, she had invited me to stay the night with her, which, of course, I didn't refuse.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Of course not.
unidentified		Yeah, of course not.
		So we went to bed.
		And we were actually in the bed sleeping.
		We weren't involved in any activity.
		But her roommate came home and I guess had figured out that I was in there and started tearing the house up.
		And I thought, well, this is kind of strange.
		And she, of course, got up and went out and confronted her.
		and they started tear the house up and i thought with this they Yeah, I mean, you know, so I got up and got on my clothes quickly and went in there and the house was turned upside down, you know, and so I intervened.
		I mean, these were both small women, and, you know, 6'0, 200 pounds.
		So, you know, I stepped between them and I told the one, the roommate, I said, you know, that maybe it was none of my business, but that, you know, I didn't think she should be hitting, you know, the other one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's a very rude way to come home, at the very least.
unidentified		Yeah, never.
		And besides being just a strange situation, so of course the one, the militant one, called the police and they came.
		The police?
		Yeah, and as it turns out, and it's kind of weird, but they were romantically involved, the two women, and I was there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God, and you were in bed with it.
unidentified		Yeah, well, I didn't know.
unidentified		I mean, she gave no indication and didn't tell me up front, and so I had to explain to the police that, you know, no, I hadn't.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm curious, you know, out of curiosity, how did police handle that?
unidentified		Well, they, you know, of course, could tell my intention was, you know, I was not there causing any trouble.
unidentified		And so they went, you know, they were.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You were a victim, actually.
unidentified		Yeah, big time.
		And anyways, the two girls had run down the beach.
		They lived on the beach and they were still catfighting or whatever you want to call it.
		And I told them what I knew of the situation, and they said I could leave.
		And nevertheless, I never went with that young lady again.
		Oh, God.
		That was Nate Brazil.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well said, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And I'll be thinking about that for some time.
unidentified		Oh, my God.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I've heard of some pretty sad stories about people coming home early and getting surprised.
		That one takes the cake, all right.
		Something like that could absolutely scar you for life.
		On my international line, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
		Hi, Arto.
		Yes.
		How are you doing tonight?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Pretty well, actually.
		Wait a minute.
		Not with all that echo.
		My God, all that echo.
		There, I think that's better.
		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Winnipeg, Manitoba.
unidentified		Canada.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		30 below.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is it really a real?
		It's honestly 30 below, not wind chill.
		You mean real 30 below?
unidentified		Well, Celsius, so I guess in American it would be about 25 below.
		Yeah.
		But it's cool.
		It's a cool one, you know?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Anyway, the reason I'm calling, I might have a little bit of a Y2K update you might be interested in.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I am indeed in any.
unidentified		Okay.
		I've got a friend who's in the military reserve.
		And we were talking the other day.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In Canada.
unidentified		Yeah, he's based in Winnipeg here.
		And he was told there'll be no leave between November and March of 2000.
		Wow.
		And he's kind of a bit of a naive guy.
		And he says, well, why?
		That seems to be a little bit in the future tense.
		He says, why would that be?
		And they said, well, we're just going to tell you now that you will probably be either in riot control, curfew enforcement, or Bosnia.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Or Bosnia.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Or Bosnia.
unidentified		Yeah, that's all we're saying right now.
		I was a little bit taken back when he said that.
		Yeah, I know you were asking the caller last night, and I was kind of racking my brain wondering why they are.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This is actually, I think, what I'm about to say is meant as a compliment.
		And maybe you can help me out with this.
		But I have found Canadians, as a general rule, to be a very polite, reserved, even.
		The least likely to riot, you know?
unidentified		Yeah, I know.
		I don't know.
		I think they're maybe looking for a worst-case scenario, perhaps.
		I think the ice storms last year gave a pretty good scare, but people behave down there pretty good in Montreal.
		So I don't understand.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, if Canadians would riot, imagine what would be going on here where I am.
unidentified		Yeah, like we're basically labeled as apathetic, sometimes a little too much for our own good.
unidentified		You know what I mean?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So it's hard to believe what could cause Canadians to riot.
unidentified		Well, you know, people do funny things when their kids get hungry, right?
		That's true.
		You know, I mean, Canadians don't get too upset over politics or things that don't affect them, you know, directly about age.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now, your attitude about politics is much like mine.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Not much of what is done in Washington, nor I assume your capital, very much affects your everyday life at all.
unidentified		No, it doesn't.
		No, it's a bunch of BS as far as I'm concerned.
		I mean, it makes humorous reading sometimes, but at least your politics has got some humor attached to it, a little bit of scandal, you know.
		But, you know, ours, I guess the big deal last year was the pepper spray, you know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Pepper spray?
unidentified		Yeah, I don't know the whole story about that, but apparently there were some protesters when Prime Minister Tretchen was doing some rally and the police pepper sprayed them at his orders, apparently.
		At his alleged orders.
		That's a bit of a bit of a peppergate going on.
		I mean, these people were supposedly peaceful protesters, whatever.
		I mean, that's the extent of our scandal up here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's not much.
unidentified		No, that's pretty tame.
unidentified		So, like you say, I was a little bit taken back when my friend in the Army said that, you know, I mean, riot control, curfew enforcement.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That actually scares me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		When I consider the good nature of Canadians and they are thinking there's going to be riots, I'm worried.
unidentified		Yeah, and this guy wasn't, he's not taking the sensationalism because he really, in his estimation.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No Canadians are.
unidentified		Well, Y2K to him is a bunch of BS, he says.
unidentified		You know, I'm taking a little more seriously myself.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I think I would be based on what he said.
		Thank you, and what I'm hearing about Canada.
		They are seriously mobilizing military forces up there.
		Now, why would they be doing that?
		Particularly for a nation of people who are basically very calm.
		Canadians are really calm.
		I wouldn't say apathetic exactly, but just laid back.
		you know, Canadians are pretty laid back, and that they are making those kind of...
		You know, we riot at the drop of a feather here.
		And so if they're preparing like that up there, that worries me a little bit.
		First time, no, no, no, on my date from Hellline, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
		Hello.
		How are you?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Pretty good, thank you.
unidentified		Great.
unidentified		I've got a great date from hell story for you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		Me and a girlfriend, this is a few years after high school, had met these two guys and decided we were going to go to a party with them.
unidentified		They asked us to drive.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You to drive?
unidentified		All right, not a problem.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They wanted you to drive.
unidentified		Yeah, they wanted us to drive.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's 1990s, I guess.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Why not?
unidentified		Yeah, why not, you know?
		So we decided, all right, we'd drive.
		We went about 65 miles to Ventura, California for this party.
		And these guys decided that we should put out with our girlfriend.
		And we said, nope, you know, that's not happening.
		And so they decided they'd get out of the car and go and party, get drunk, and hit on all the other women.
		And we said, well, all right, that's the way you want to be.
		We sat there and we watched them get drunk and then said, okay, we're getting ready to leave.
		And they said, okay, we went and they followed us to the car.
		We got in the car, locked the doors, and promptly left them.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And left them?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now, who did the car belong to?
unidentified		My girlfriend.
unidentified		We decided that we'd had enough of their BS and just got in the car And promptly left them about 65 miles from home.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's pretty cold.
		I know.
		But I would say deserved.
unidentified		But I don't know if we were the date from hell or if they were.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I imagine they might call and be telling me the same story, huh?
unidentified		Probably, huh?
		Yeah.
		Just thought you'd like that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yep, very interesting.
		Thank you, and take care.
		I'll tell you a story.
		At one time in Las Vegas, they used to have a big problem with prostitution in Las Vegas.
		Now, prostitution in some Nevada counties is perfectly legal, and they have houses of prostitution that are legal.
		But it is not legal in Las Vegas.
		It diverts people from gambling, so they don't allow it there.
		And the sheriff used to round up all the prostitutes in town when they decided finally they were going to do something about it.
		You know, they would go up and down the strip and they would round up every single prostitute they saw or thought might be a prostitute.
		And they would put them in buses and they would cart them outside of town.
		Yeah, I mean, generally, here they are in hot pants or whatever they're in and high heels and all the rest of it.
		And they would cart them miles and miles and miles out of town and just make them get off the bus and walk back to Las Vegas.
		And that was their punishment.
		There's another part to this story that I'll have to tell you sometime.
		First time caller line, actually date from hell line.
		You're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
		Hello.
		I'm calling from California.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		And I have a date from hell with a twist.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		With a twist.
unidentified		Yes.
		A gentleman I had known for, oh, 10, 15 years asked me out on a date, and the first date he ever took me on was to a movie called Motel Hell.
		Have you ever seen that movie?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, I haven't, but is it a Freddy Krueger kind of thing?
unidentified		You should rent it sometime.
		I thought it was horrible, and he laughed through the whole thing.
		But the twist is, we've been married almost 20 years.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Was the movie a horror movie or was it a comedy?
unidentified		It was a spoof.
		It was a movie about a man named Farmer John who caused people to have car accidents, and then he buried them in his yard, and he had the best tasting bacon, etc.
		Oh, my.
		That he sold.
		It was really funny.
		But I was grossed out.
		You know, people were buried, their head was sticking out the ground, and their body was under the ground.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It was hysterical.
unidentified		And I thought, how could you take me to this movie?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What a class act, huh?
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		He laughed.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But somehow things must have improved.
unidentified		Pardon?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I said, somehow, between the two of you, things must have improved.
unidentified		Yes, yes.
		The next movie was Raiders of the Lost Ark.
		I did it.
		Anyway, Art, I love you.
		I love listening to you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thanks for the call.
		Take care.
		People with their heads sticking out of the ground and the best bacon in town.
		Great.
		Wildcard Live, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		Is this Mr. Bell?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, it is.
unidentified		Mr. Bell, I'm with the Center for Occult Awareness, and I'm calling because I've been informed that you're advising people to prepare for the year 2000.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I am indeed.
unidentified		And even more disturbingly, that you're engaging in the dissemination of secret numbers.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I am indeed.
		I am.
		i'm giving out secret numbers every night now uh...
unidentified		we're highly disturbed by the delegation from part calling to their I'm telling you, I'm doing it.
unidentified		Okay, well, we're disturbed by this behavior, and I'm calling to tell you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah, but who cares?
unidentified		The center cares about that very much.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, so what?
		What are they going to do?
		Give me an award of some kind or what?
unidentified		That's not our activity, Mr. Bell.
unidentified		No?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You mean you guys get rougher, huh?
unidentified		We don't engage in any particular action.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How do we know that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How do we know that your anti-cult activities don't include liquidations?
unidentified		Well, Mr. Bell, I'm not the one that's being subject to scrutiny here.
		It's you.
		And so I was just calling to inform you that we're monitoring you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		have downloaded the photo that you posted on your website of the oh good millennium master you mean where i have my my I'm giving the press every opportunity.
		I'll erase it sometime tonight.
		But I've got my black robe on.
		It says MM, Millennium Master is what that means.
		Also, MM is Roman numeral for 2000, as you well know.
		And I have a crown.
		You can see that as well.
		And I have done this to aid organizations like yours in writing hit pieces about me.
unidentified		Well, I'm sure you're going to continue to be monitored, Mr. Bell.
unidentified		Thank you very much.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're welcome.
		Have a good morning.
		So who cares?
		You know, I mean, that's the bottom line of that.
		Who cares?
		Called awareness groups.
		See, I know what's coming this year.
		I know.
		Already I know.
		And so I've decided I'm going to help the press in every way I can.
		They want to paint me this way, let them paint me this way.
		Use that photograph with your stories.
		It'll really impress your readers.
		It's very catchy.
		You know, very catchy.
		The only effect that I was unable to get in the photograph, I might try another.
		I couldn't get my eyes wide enough.
		You know, any good real cult leader has to have wide, psychotically wide, open eyes.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello.
unidentified		Is this all?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Turn your radio off, please.
unidentified		Yeah, hold on.
unidentified		One second.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		I'll stand by while you do that.
		Everybody, get your radio close to the phone.
unidentified		Yes.
		Yeah.
		I'm shocked that I got through.
		I'm calling from New York City.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		The reason why I'm calling is I'm on a midnight tour, and I have listened to your show about two weeks ago.
unidentified		You had a remote viewer.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		And he made a statement saying that there'll be an incident in Shea Stadium.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's what he said.
unidentified		Okay.
		I contacted the NYPD, the intelligence division.
		Yes.
		And I'm a little nervous.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I understand that.
unidentified		They thought I was completely nuts.
unidentified		They wouldn't take it at all.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, of course they wouldn't take it.
		Why would they take it?
		I mean, this is something that was remote viewed.
		And police departments everywhere don't pay a lot of attention to what psychics or prophecies say.
		They don't pay attention.
unidentified		Well, I got the duty officer, and he just dissed me.
unidentified		So what I did is I sat down and I wrote a letter to the direct officer.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now here's what you do.
		Tell him to call Curtis.
		Curtis Lee, he'll vouch for me.
unidentified		Oh, it's not you.
		It's the legitimacy of what a remote viewer is.
		It's hard to describe one to somebody who doesn't know what one is.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I wouldn't try it.
unidentified		And that's what I did when I tried to explain what a remote viewer is, and that they're going to blow something up possibility at Shea Stadium.
		He says, you know, it's basically you're nuts.
		So I wrote a letter to the commanding officer of the intelligence division, which is explaining what a threat what a remote viewer is.
		And it warrants at least some investigation.
		I'd hate to see something happen out of Shea.
		Of course.
		In July, because I live in a vicinity.
		But anyhow, I just thought that I wanted to let you know that I'm not even sure what a remote viewer is or if it's legitimate, but if the guy has credentials and he did work for NSA and this and that, it warrants further study.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, he did work for the government remote viewing program.
unidentified		He did that.
		No, I understand, but I'm saying I as a citizen, you know, I listen to you.
		I don't know if that's true or not, but I believe it to be true.
		You know what I'm saying?
		I don't doubt it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So obviously, I mean, they're not going to send any sort of enforcement folks over there based on what you said, right?
unidentified		No, but I was going to contact the people at Shea itself.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, look, why not just do as I said and go to Curtis, and he and his gang of green hats or whatever they are will go over there.
unidentified		Well, I think you would have a more hostile view than the detective that answers the phone.
		But anyhow, it's nice to speak with you.
		I worked midnights, and you really make my night go by.
		So I thank you much for taking the call, and I'm shocked that I'm speaking to you, really.
		It's a pleasure.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'm glad you called.
unidentified		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		New York City, WABC.
		I got those jingles, you know.
		That was sort of a lifelong dream of mine to get WABC's old jingle package.
		And I grew up with that.
		I grew up with that, Cousin Brucey.
		WABC, boy, I grew up with that.
		And no matter where I moved around the northeast part of the country, WABC was always there, always there, because they've got a signal that's everywhere in the northeast and beyond.
		All right, this is Coast to Coast AM doing not much of anything, and we'll be right back to do some more of it.
unidentified		You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time on Premier Radio Networks.
		Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from January 7th, 1999.
		If you love her, then you must send her somewhere where she's never been before.
		Morning praises and morning gazes will get you where you want to go.
		Burn up, something can do with her.
		you want to know by now you want to know by now you want to know you want to know you want to know Pretty woman, walking down the street.
		Pretty woman, a man I like to meet.
		Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you.
		No one could open to you.
		No one could open to you.
		Pretty woman would be but me, pretty woman.
		I couldn't help be woman.
		I couldn't believe it.
		You only won, oh my god,
		I'm a man.
		You're listening to Art Bell somewhere in time.
		Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from January 7th, 1999.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know what?
		I think I need a Canadian line.
		I've been considering that lately.
		The Canadians are dominating my international line, and yet I want them to have a way to get in.
		So I think I'm going to get a Canadian line.
		that's probably why all circuits are busy you know i've got about i've got When you think about it, it makes sense, doesn't it?
		A Canadian line only.
		and then close off the East and West to Canadians.
unidentified		I'll go on home, it's late.
		There'll be tomorrow night, but wait.
		Yes.
		do I think.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The date from hell?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		She's walking back to me Yeah, she's walking back to me Oh, pretty woman Here I am, and here are the commercials, and then we'll be right back.
unidentified		Ha!
		Thank you.
		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, okay.
		Here we go again on my date from hellline.
		You're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello, are you?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Can you hear me?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I hear you.
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm calling people.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now I can't hear you.
		No, where did you...
		What's going on?
		You're gone.
		Your history?
unidentified		Can you hear me?
unidentified		No.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What have you done to your phone?
unidentified		Hello?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, now I hear you.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What's going on there, bro?
unidentified		I don't know.
		My antenna's coming loose here.
		I think I've got it now.
		Okay.
		Okay.
		Well, my date from hell is probably one of my most embarrassing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		But now that it's years past, it's kind of funny.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, things have a way of finally getting funny.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, real tragedies at the time.
unidentified		Yes, well, I was in high school, about 17 years old, and dating someone whose idea of a nice date was a 12-pack and a truck in the side of the road.
		Oh, yeah.
		And, well, this was only our third date, so his side of the truck was his side, and my side was my side.
		And not being a real beer drinker, I was on my first beer, and he was drinking beer and throwing the cans out the window.
		And a policeman, well, before the policeman came, he still put a beer on his shorts.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		On his shorts.
unidentified		And being a hot July night, he decided the best place for his shorts to dry out would be the back, the tailgate of his pickup.
		Oh, no.
		So he put his shorts on the tailgate of the pickup and got back in the track.
		His beer-drenched shorts.
		And a policeman pulled up behind the pickup.
		Of course.
		And I, thinking, you know, thinking quick, said, well, let's tell him we're fighting and that's the reason we pulled over.
		And so I pretend I'm crying and the policeman walks up to the window and, you know, have you been drinking?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You mean you guys cooked this drunk up just while you saw the patrol?
unidentified		Yes.
		And I told, you know, I act like I'm crying and just take me home.
		I can't take this anymore.
		And my boyfriend is, you know, no, we haven't been drinking.
		And he says, well, what are these beer cans doing here on the side of the pickup?
		And my boy Vryn says, well, they were here when we pulled up.
		And he says, well, I smell beer on your breath.
		Step out of the pickup.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Of course.
unidentified		So he has to step out of the pickup in his underwear and get his horse off and tell the gate of the pickup.
		And so then, of course, our story looks that much more believable.
		We're fighting with his pants off.
		So he was a nice enough policeman just to, he took one look at me and how old is she and dump the beer out and take her home.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And that was it.
unidentified		That was my date from hell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's a date from hell, all right.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that'll teach you to fool with the law.
unidentified		Yeah, that's right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
		Take care.
		There would be no way out of that.
		No way at all.
		You've been drinking.
		The cans are littering the side of the road right adjacent to you.
		You've spilled beer on your own shorts.
		they're drawing in the back of the truck in the cup car pulls up uh...
		Yeah, that would take a few years to be funny, but it is funny.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, how's it going?
		I've been listening to your show for a couple of years, and I just wanted to say that it's nice to get through.
		I've never tried Colin before, but I just wanted to talk about a couple things, Art.
		Okay.
		The first thing I want to talk about as far as UFOs, I know it's not, this is probably your dateline event, but my father, like yourself, was in the Air Force, and he was in the Air Force from 72 to 74, stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base.
		And he had the highest security coordinates you could get at the time, which was top secret crypto.
		And I found that out when I was about eight years old.
		And I asked him, you know, as far as UFOs, because I've always been interested in things like that.
		And he had told me that the analogy he gave me, and I firmly believe this, he's always been honest and man of integrity.
		The analogy that he used was that you may walk down by a ravine and see something and just have no idea what it is and keep walking.
		And that was his explanation for it.
		So as far as that, I can pretty much debunk whatever people don't want to believe.
		And if we know that there's intelligent life on this planet, there's obviously going to be intelligent life elsewhere.
		So I just wanted to say that for all the people that don't believe in UFOs and that, I think a lot of them can be dismissed as experimental aircraft and then flying over people's homes and whatnot at strange hours of the night.
		But if you look at F-117, 117 assault fighter, it kind of looks like something that didn't really evolve here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, it did.
		And what people should consider is that the F-117 is now really old news, even though it's alien-like.
		And so you can only imagine, I mean, you have to imagine that they are several generations beyond that with whatever they're testing at Area 51, several generations beyond.
		And so what would that look like?
		I mean, that really is a safe assumption, isn't it?
		Do we now have craft that defy gravity?
		I suspect if possible.
		I really do.
		First time, no.
		Date from Hell Line.
		You're on there.
unidentified		Hi there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi.
unidentified		How are you, Art?
unidentified		Pretty good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		This is Phyllis in Alexandria, Virginia.
unidentified		I listened to WRC, Maryland.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, ma'am.
unidentified		My date from hell, I guess it was really more embarrassing than anything, but I had a second date with this guy, and I thought I was going to the movies.
		Well, he was a truck driver.
		And he said he had to take a trailer to Delaware, which is not too far from here.
		Right.
		So I'd never been in one before.
		And I thought, well, that might be interesting.
		So we have to go over across the Bay Bridge.
		And it's very high, and I'd always been over in a car, never higher up, in a cab.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, things really look different up there.
unidentified		Oh, yes.
		It was very scary.
		And we dropped the trailer off, and on our way back, you know, I don't know the term for it, but I thought it was dogging or bulldogging when you're just in the cab and the trailer's not there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't know what that's called.
unidentified		I don't either, but it just about jolts your teeth out of your mouth.
unidentified		I mean, it is such rough riding.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I would imagine it bounces around.
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
		Well, he knew about this restaurant.
		He wanted us to stop at, so I thought, okay, so we drive up in the cab, and, you know, we're dressed nice.
		Sure.
		And we get out, and we stand in line, and finally the mater comes and takes us to our table.
		Well, the maitre d'pulls the chair out and my date sits down.
		Wow.
		And the maternity, you know, he looked at him, and then he looked at me, and he had this really funny look on his face.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They're like, where did you find this one?
unidentified		Right.
		So I'm standing there with my hands on my head thinking, are you crazy?
		Well, I was very mad at the time, but you know, later on, I thought it was funny.
		But another thing that I'd like to tell you, I made copies or I printed off of my friend's computer the MJ-12 documents.
		very interesting.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, of course they are.
		That must have been a lot of work, though.
		I've got a whole book here.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Listen, I'm going to be talking about those tomorrow with Stanton Friedman while I'm taping Dreamland.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		1 to 4 o'clock if you have a computer.
unidentified		Oh, well, I can.
		I don't know whether she has.
		I don't think she has a mode.
		I mean, you know, pick up the phone and talk.
		Is that what you mean?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, you can just listen on real audio.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know, it's like you go to my website and you click on listen live and audio or whatever it is, and you go over there and listen to Dreamland as we do it.
unidentified		Oh, wonderful.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And participate.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You didn't know that, huh?
unidentified		No.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, 1 to 4 in the afternoon Pacific time.
unidentified		1 to 4.
		Yep.
		Okay.
		And one other thing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		I don't know whether you're aware of it or not, but there's about two or three minutes of dead air.
unidentified		You all, you know, it goes back to the local station when you take a break.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		And I don't know whether it's their fault.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, that's probably on their end.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They perhaps are not getting a signal or something, you know, a subaudible tone that is bringing it back at the right time, so who knows?
unidentified		Well, I'll call them because they've had other problems, too.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Let them know.
unidentified		Thank you so much.
unidentified		I'm glad you're back, and God bless you, and have a blessed new year.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
unidentified		It's absolutely beautiful.
unidentified		I saw the picture.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Which one?
unidentified		The 20-year-old.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, of Ramona.
unidentified		Yes, she's absolutely beautiful.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
		Thank you very much.
		Yes, it is a neat picture of her.
		That's Ramona when she was 20.
unidentified		That's on the website.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And she still is very beautiful, indeed.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wild Guard Line, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hi.
		Hello.
		I'm Jeff from North Gore, Ontario, Canada.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Jeff.
unidentified		How are you?
		Pretty well.
		Well, I think you are.
		I enjoy your show immensely.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
unidentified		My date from hell is somewhat a little bit different.
unidentified		I was involved in the ice storm last year.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, the terrible ice storm of 98.
unidentified		Yeah, that was a good tap on the shoulder for the Y2K.
unidentified		If people aren't paying attention to the Y2K, they should.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know.
unidentified		Meanwhile, the story goes like this.
		I date from hell, which is the key word from.
		When it hit, we were in hell for quite a while.
		But I have a neighbor.
		His name is Dick.
		I've been here for 26 years.
		And he's lived next door to me.
		No electricity.
		No bell.
		He works on wood, propane, and outhouse, everything else.
		Self-sufficient.
		When the ice storm hit, for him, it was just another day.
		He came over here to my house.
		He said, Jeff, bring your truck over.
		He cuts wood all throughout the year.
		He has wood piled up from here to Ottawa, which is quite a waste.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, no, listen, I understand exactly what you're saying.
		If you are not dependent on modern-day what we consider to be just conveniences that are almost automatic, and you're not dependent on those in the first place, and everything goes away, you don't care.
		It doesn't bother you a whip.
unidentified		Well, what we take for granted is what happens.
		You know, like you said before, you turn on a light switch, it always comes on.
		It doesn't anymore.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know.
		Well, look, what I tell people is what I'll tell you now.
		If you want to have an interesting experiment, wait until night one night and go out and be very safe and just go out to the breaker.
		Or if the breaker is in your house, it's even easier, the main breaker.
		And just turn it off.
		You know, that'll cut all the power to your house.
		And leave it off for an hour or two or however long you think you can handle it.
		And if you're in a modern American home or apartment or something like that, you will quickly discover that you live in a useless shell.
		That if the power were to go away, if the water was not going to be running from the tap, you'd be in pretty big trouble pretty fast.
		And the way to test that is simply to go through the breaker and shut it off.
		See for yourself.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Extinguish your radio, please.
unidentified		Okay.
		You know, I hear everybody do this, and they're so surprised when it happens.
		And now, hey, it happened.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hi.
		I wanted to tell you a tape from health story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's fine.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'll take them on any line, I guess.
unidentified		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm in Roswell, Georgia.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Roswell, Georgia?
unidentified		Yeah, Kathy and Roswell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Kath.
unidentified		Yeah, okay.
		I had a friend that was a scout leader with me, and she was divorced for many years, and she called me one day and said, I'm really worried about my ex-husband.
		He seems to be depressed.
		He had never remarried.
		And I wonder if you'd go out with him because he just needs somebody to talk to.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		She was trying to fix you up with her ex-husband because he was depressed?
unidentified		Yeah, she said, he needs somebody to talk to, and you've helped a lot of people.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Doesn't that sort of start the alarm bells ringing right away?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Depressed ex-husband?
unidentified		Well, I didn't think too much about it because when I had a lot of friends that knew divorced people, and they would call me and say, so-and-so just got divorced.
		Would you go out with them because they're just kind of, you know, out of the loop and they need somebody?
		So I would, I felt like, you know, a halfway house for like divorced people.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I see.
unidentified		Yeah, so anyway, I said, well, sure, I'll talk to him.
		We'll go out.
		So he calls and we set up a dinner date.
		He picks me up and we drive all the way across town.
		And he's like, there's a restaurant out here I want to take you to.
		Well, he said, no, no, it's on the other side of town.
		So we go, we drive all the way.
		Atlanta's a big city.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, it is.
unidentified		Okay, because we're in the suburb of Atlanta.
		So we drive.
		Then he goes back the other way.
		And we drove for like two and a half hours.
		And then he's just driving, wandering aimlessly.
		And I was like, look at anything.
		And he thinks fine.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are we getting close?
unidentified		And so finally we get to this place and they had things, squid and octopus and weird things.
		And I didn't want to eat it.
		So he cuts it up in little tiny bits and he starts forcing me to eat it with his fork, like almost pushing it into my mouth.
		And I'm like, no, really, I don't care for it.
		And he's like, eat it.
		And this is a huge guy, like 6'7, huge.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, he forced you to eat this?
unidentified		Big, very intimidating.
unidentified		Dark, dark eyes, dark hair, tall, muscular, outdoorsy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And so you ate it.
unidentified		Oh, hell yeah, I ate it.
		I ate whatever he did it in little tiny bits and fed me.
		So I'm like, okay, well, it's getting late.
		Let's go.
		So I'm trying to make conversation as we're crossing town back our way.
		And I said, well, what do you like?
		Are you into sports or games?
		And he's like, what kind of games?
		And I said, oh, you know, chess, whatever, you know, games and computer games, whatever.
		And he, all of a sudden, we're turning down into this woods.
		Yes.
		And he said, I have a chess set.
		And I was like, wait, wait a minute.
		We're not going the right way.
		Where are we?
		Because I was so turned around.
		And I said, well, I don't understand.
		Where are we going?
		And he said, oh, I have a chess set at my place.
		We're almost there.
		And I said, okay, well, I've got to go soon.
		And my kids at home.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Listen, I've got a break here because I've got a bottom-of-the-hour break.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We'll get this after the bottom of the hour.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, right there.
unidentified		you're listening to art bell somewhere in time tonight featuring a replay of coast to coast a m from january seven nineteen ninety nine yeah The heart is on fire.
		My soul's like a wheel that's turning.
		My love is a life.
		You're the devil in the sky, or you are the devil in the sky.
		You fool me with your kisses.
		You cheated and you steal.
		Heaven knows how you lie to me.
		You're not the way you see.
		You look like an angel, walk like an angel.
		Talk like an angel.
		But I got word.
		You're the devil's God.
		Oh, yes, you are the devil's God.
		I thought that I was in heaven, but I was just surprised.
		Heaven helped me I didn't see the devil in your eyes.
		You look like an angel, look like an angel.
		Walk like an angel, walk like an angel.
		Talk like an angel, but I got one.
		You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time on Premier Radio Networks.
		Tonight, an on-tour presentation of Coast to Coast AM from January 7th, 1999.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good morning, everybody.
		Gates from Hell and whatever else you want to talk about, fair game for tonight.
		We'll be right back.
unidentified		We'll be right back.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, you're back on the air again, hi.
unidentified		Yeah, hi.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So here you are headed out to the woods.
unidentified		Yeah, and we go way back in the woods, and there's this big house back there.
		And he said, come on, I got a chessboard.
		And I said, well, I got to call the kids.
		So I think, okay, I'll go in.
		I'll call home.
		And anyway, we get in there.
		There's no chessboard.
		I'm like, who lives here?
		And he said, these people travel.
		They're gone all the time.
		They let me live in the basement.
		House then.
		Oh, man.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This is Freddy Krueger.
unidentified		Okay?
		And like, everything's locked up, so you can't go upstairs.
		And he says, you can't call.
		You can't call.
		And he pulls like a kitchen chair into the middle of the room.
		And he says, sit down.
		And in the meantime, he gets a bottle of vodka.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, man.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, man.
unidentified		And he starts drinking this stuff straight out of the bottle, just downing it.
		And he's getting, I think, okay, he'll pass out.
		He'll get drunk and he'll pass out.
		But he doesn't.
		And he makes me sit in a chair and he gets behind me.
		And I'm trying not to lose eye contact with him because you don't let a psychopath get behind you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I hear you.
unidentified		You shouldn't break eye contact with him.
		So I'm trying to think of all this stuff I've read in books.
		And he's behind me.
		He's got huge hands.
		He puts these, like I said, he's huge, like 6'7 and big and built and blah.
		And he puts his hands around my neck and he says, do you want to die?
		And I just stay calm because I know I shouldn't show fear or intimidation to this person because they're on a control, a power trip.
		So I'm like, not tonight.
		And I said, really?
		I've got to get home.
		They're going to be wondering.
		And he said, I can make it stop.
		I can make the pain go away.
		Do you want to die?
		This goes on all night long.
		Okay?
		I won't drink.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All night long?
unidentified		All night.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		My God, woman, you've been kidnapped.
unidentified		Yeah, so hours go by, and he won't let me out of the chair, and I see a picture of his daughter.
		His daughter was in my scout troop.
		And I take her picture and I hold her picture so he has eye contact with the picture.
		And I keep talking about his daughter because that seems to be his one link with reality, maybe his only link.
		So he said, I need to go to the bathroom.
		So I go in the bathroom and he stands in the doorway and he said, don't shut the door.
		And he stands there.
		Then I come back.
		He says, sit in a chair.
		So I sit in a chair.
		It starts all over again.
		I mean, hours.
		And he keeps drinking.
		And he gets another bottle and he's drinking.
		And then he lays down on the bed.
		And he says, stay there.
		So I think finally he's gone asleep.
		He's sleeping.
		And I'll sneak out.
		And every time I move, he's like, boom, awake.
		And he says, sit in the chair.
		Well, what am I doing?
		You know, I mean, I have, there's nothing I can do.
		So this goes on.
		How old were you?
		I was about 38.
		38, all right.
		And so I sit in the chair all night.
		And in the morning, and he never, he appears to be asleep, but obviously he's never asleep because if I move, he's right on top of it.
		And he says, don't get up.
		Don't move.
		And so he says, you can lay down next to me or sit in the chair.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you stay in the chair.
unidentified		Zoo said, can I go to the bathroom again?
		He's like, I'll go with you.
		It was very bizarre.
		So in the morning, about 10 o'clock, he gets up and he's got a station wagon.
		And he starts throwing all this camping gear in it.
		And I said, they're really going to be worried.
		I mean, they're scared.
		I haven't come home all night.
		I have got to get home.
		I've got to call you.
		And I was extremely calm with him.
		And so he said, no, we're going fishing.
		We're going up in the mountains.
		And I said, no, I don't think so.
		And I talked to him for a while.
		And I finally did get home around noon the next day.
		And I said, they're going to have the police out.
		The people know who I'm with, and they're going to be looking for you.
		And I suggest you take me home immediately to head this off because the kids are going to be getting up.
		They're going to call your ex-wife and people are going to start looking for us.
		So I'm not going fishing.
		I'm not going to the mountains.
		I'm going home.
		I'm going home now.
		And he didn't say another word, got in the car and silently drove me home, dropped me off.
		And I went inside and called his ex-wife.
		And I said, what?
		What?
		Were you thinking?
		And I told her, and she goes, oh, I thought he was overall.
		Oh, no.
		Oh, my God.
		And she's like, well, that's why I divorced him because he held a shotgun on me when I was pregnant.
		And then I heard all these other bizarre stories about him.
		And so she goes, well, I was really worried because his last girlfriend disappeared, and we didn't know any family that she had, and we can't find her.
		And I'm like, oh, well, maybe she went fishing.
		I don't know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This is the date with Freddy Krueger.
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		It was truly the date from hell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Nine and a half something or another.
unidentified		I mean, it was truly bad.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That really happened to you?
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Didn't you call the police?
unidentified		No, no, because I really didn't want to stir the waters.
		And he lives in this town, and he would be around occasionally.
		I ran into him again at a nightclub.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No.
unidentified		He was completely dressed in camouflage.
		This guy is massive.
		I found out he ran away in high school and jumped a steamer and went to Cuba to fight with Checo or something.
		And they sent him back.
		This is the mentality of that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They sent him back?
unidentified		They sent him back because he was a minor.
		That's how long ago.
		He was older.
		And I ran into him in this club that I was with his ex-wife, and she had remarried.
		And she said, oh, when they see each other, there's going to be a fight.
		And these are two big guys.
		And it looks like a lion.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Excuse me one second.
		What were you doing with this guy's ex-wife?
		You shouldn't have had another thing to do with her ever.
unidentified		We were joint scout leaders together.
		We had a scout troop that we were co-leaders of.
		She was a great girl.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah, just great.
unidentified		Oh, no, she really meant no harm, but she wasn't.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		She fixed you up with a psychopath.
unidentified		She wasn't married to him very long.
unidentified		She loved him.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Obviously, obviously.
		But, I mean, what kind of friend would fix up another friend with somebody who would virtually I mean, that's kidnapping.
		And that's torture.
		And that's a lot of things, very serious things.
unidentified		I think it certainly qualifies as the day from hell, though.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It wins the entire award for the night.
unidentified		And I can still remember that so vividly.
		You want to die?
		You want to die?
		I can stop it.
		I can make it all stop and I'm just like...
		And I was like, you know, when I want to die, I'll come to you.
		You are the person I'm going to come to you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is that what you told them?
unidentified		Yeah, because you couldn't show fear.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Actually, you know, you did all the right things, but I don't know how you could do it.
unidentified		And you can't show intimidation.
		You can't let them get a power, an emotion that they can play off of.
		Well, I've known, I've been in my life, I don't know why, but I've been put in a lot of bizarre circumstances for some reason.
		It's after it's over that I, you know, go, oh, my God.
		I'm calm when it's happening.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		You win the award.
		I give up.
		Nobody's going to top it.
unidentified		Thank you.
		Yeah, well, thanks.
		And hey, it's great to talk to you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And to you as well.
unidentified		And hi, Tom.
		I've got all the CNN listening to you here in Atlanta.
		Since the night shift is CNN, tons of people.
		I've got so many people turned on to you.
		This is so cool.
		All right.
		Well, thanks a bunch.
		Yep.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		See you later.
		That wins the award.
		That's it.
		Contest over.
		If it was a contest, it's over.
		That really was the date from hell.
		I mean, that's not a date.
		My God, that's a movie.
		That's a movie, and she handled that so well.
		One little mistake, as she said, empowering this guy with fear.
		And you've all seen the same movies I've seen.
		You know what happens?
		I know what happens.
		He slowly pulls the skin from her, or he gets out a large needle full of blue stuff, and you know, whatever.
		My God.
		Western the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, hi.
unidentified		Hi, this is Barbara from Missoula, Montana.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Barbara.
unidentified		Hi.
		And I was just calling someone.
		I have a kind of a Y2K story from Montana here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		It sounds kind of interesting.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What is it?
unidentified		Well, apparently the people here that are on food stamps have not received their food stamps this month because the computers in California did not send them out the way they were supposed to, the way they normally do automatically.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How do you know it's because of Y2K?
unidentified		Well, I'm not sure on the Y2K.
unidentified		I was told that it was a computer problem, and it was just after the rollover from, you know, from December to January.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yep, yep.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Did you hear what I've been saying about all circuits are busy?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You heard that earlier?
unidentified		Right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It just occurred to me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I wonder if the phone company is beginning to have Y2K-related problems.
unidentified		It's possible.
		I know when I called the food stamp office here just to see what they'd say, it was, well, the holidays, you know, has been causing it.
		But I talked to a caseworker who said it was definitely the computers.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Oh, I appreciate the call.
		Thank you.
		definitely the computers i'm getting a lot of art But I'm getting real serious now when I tell you, I'm getting a lot of reports of Y2K-related failures already occurring now in 99.
		I'm really getting a lot of reports, folks.
		So, you know, I don't know what that means.
		It may mean that people are going to blame every little glitch on Y2K, but I'm getting a lot of serious reports that do appear directly related to the date change problem.
		And that's just now, at the beginning of 1999.
		So, you know, I think there is something to this.
		But I'll monitor my mail and my email, and I'll kind of keep you informed as we go along toward 2000.
		I'm getting a lot of stuff.
		First time caller line, actually, date from hell line.
		You're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Got a good date from hell story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You do?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm Kathy from Woodridge, New Jersey.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, Kathy.
unidentified		Yeah, Happy New Year, Art.
		Thank you.
		First time this year.
		And after that story, I was thinking maybe I shouldn't tell this story because it's a little, well, it's not risque, but it's not x-rated, but it almost got x-rated.
		And I says, after that story, forget it.
		I can tell this.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You mean after that lady's story?
unidentified		No, that was terrible.
		That was for Dr. Laura.
		Whew, that was terrible.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't even think Dr. Laura, does she get stuff like that?
unidentified		Well, I think a 38-year-old woman should have known better.
unidentified		After Art, would you have got back in that car with him after the restaurant?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		After the restaurant?
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		No.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No.
		No, but Kathy, there's a certain law that applies here.
		It's the very same law that sends every woman in a low-cut dress down to the basement where the evil noise is coming from.
		That's where they always go to.
unidentified		Don't touch that door.
unidentified		Whatever you do, don't go to that door.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They go right there.
unidentified		Better believe it.
		Well, I was an idiot, too, because it was 1971, and I had three dates from hell in one month.
		But I'll get to the one that's easy to tell.
		A girlfriend set me up.
		She says, look, I don't want to go to this house at this party.
		I want you to be double date with me.
		Well, I don't even know who the hell I'm dating here, you know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sure.
unidentified		And being 18 years old, I'm game.
		We go to this house, and it's a very, very nice house.
		But four guys live in this house all by themselves.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Four guys.
unidentified		Yeah, and they're in their 20s.
		And bring some wine, you know, whatever, you know.
		And we eat a nice dinner, and they're all sitting around watching TV.
		At the stereos playing at the same time, and all hell starts to break loose.
		And the guy that I'm with, kind of wrestling type, you know, the very crop short hair and big bone, almost like a linebacker, you know?
		And I have nothing in common.
		I have nothing in common with that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Like they don't have necks.
unidentified		I have nothing in common with this guy.
		I don't even like the same kind of music.
		And I guess I was being a little nasty towards him.
		I said, I got a, I told my girlfriend, I think I have to get ready to go.
		I'm only there an hour.
		And I get all ready to go.
		And he splits.
		He goes, which we think is into the bathroom.
		And she says, well, why don't you just say goodbye to so-and-so?
		I says, well, I'll wait till he gets out of the bathroom.
		He comes out of the bathroom wearing a robe, a big Chenille robe.
		And then he sits down in this big chair and he says, well, I just want to tell everybody something that's been on my mind.
		And then he stands up.
		He stands up and drops the robe.
		And he's bare, you know what?
		And around his waist, he has a six shooter.
		And then he grabs a hold of the six shooter and he shoots two into the ceiling.
		And he says, I'm in the mood to make some love.
		I'm not kidding, Mark.
		He gets up and he starts and he goes, And it's you, Kathy.
		It's you, I want.
		And he starts aiming the gun, and he's drunk as hell, and he starts aiming the gun.
		Bang!
		And he misses me.
		Bang!
		He just shoots a huge art.
		He was blowing this thing.
		Forget about it.
		I took off.
		I ran out with the back door.
		And Art, I must have run four to six blocks.
		I never looked back.
		I got across the street, across the highway.
		I heard shots.
		The next day I asked my girlfriend, did everybody get out of there?
		And she says, yeah.
		We finally, some of the guys finally got him, and they tripped him after he ran around the grounds for like three or four times.
		And they hit him over the head with a bottle.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know what?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This really is funny.
unidentified		It's unbelievable.
		It wasn't funny art.
		I was crying.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Of course.
unidentified		I was scared out of my mind.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You probably think you were going to die.
unidentified		Yelling some really profound profanities at me, which I can't say over the phone, you can imagine.
		But I never went on a blind date again.
		Never again.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		She's going, I just awarded this last lady.
unidentified		I'm telling you, I know that my girlfriend's out there.
		She's in Atlanta.
		And if you know who I am, baby, and you remember it, it was 1971.
		And we can still sit down, and that's the first thing they think of when they see old Kathy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, and do they laugh now?
unidentified		Yeah, they laugh now, but it wasn't then that the gun was pointed at.
		You know, Art?
		I wouldn't be here if he hit me.
		Buck naked.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Buck naked with a shot.
unidentified		Buck naked and linebacker, big neck, crew cut.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I know.
unidentified		Hilarious, isn't that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Same kind of guys that got in the NFL.
unidentified		It's funny now, but it wasn't funny then, man.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Kathy, thank you.
unidentified		Thank you, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's a close contest with the last call I had.
unidentified		My gosh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Walks out with a big rope and grops the rope and says, I'm in the mood for love and starts shooting.
		Really, all this makes you just feel like going down and asking somebody for a date, doesn't it?
		The world is full of Freddy Krueger's now or something.
		Easter the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi.
unidentified		Is this Hot Bell?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It is.
unidentified		Oh, hi.
		My name's Ray.
		I'm from Myrtle Beach.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		And I have what I would call a predate to hell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A pre-date to hell.
unidentified		Well, it's an incident that happened to me in Manhattan.
		I was working for a large real estate firm, and I went over one day to cash my check at the bank and forgotten that I was smoking a cigarette.
		So when I got into the bank, and it was a nicely polished floor, marble floor, I was looking for an ashtray, and I couldn't find one.
		So I just cut the cigarette.
		And the lady in front of me in the line had a mink coat on, long, beautiful hair, very attractive.
		And she turned to me and said, would you mind putting out that cigarette?
		I said, no, but I just can't find a place right now to put it out.
		So the line progressed.
		She went ahead and did her business.
		And then I went up to the teller and I did mine.
		And out of the corner of my eye, I saw her standing there waiting for me.
		And I turned, and as I did, she gave me a karate kick.
		I mean, just turned sideways.
		Oh, yeah, right on the shin, you know, and it really hurt.
		So she had on winter boots.
		I had on a pair of, we were all wearing Western boots at that time in New York for some reason.
		It was just a thing, a fad.
		And then I turned and I kicked her.
		And I said, well, let me get myself out of this bank because before you know it, she'll be screaming that, you know, I caused the incident when she actually caused it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		When she kicked first.
unidentified		She did, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Kick her back.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Listen, can you hold on?
unidentified		Yeah, sure.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Stay right there.
unidentified		And you're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time on Premier Radio Networks.
		Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from January 7, 1999.
		The Black Mermaid is a production of the U.S. Department of State.
		I hate the world today.
		You're so good to me, I know, but I can't change.
		Tried to tell you, but you look at me like maybe I'm an angel underneath.
		Innocent and sweet.
		Yesterday I cried.
		Must have been relieved to see the softer side.
		I can understand how you get so confused.
		I don't envy you.
		I'm a little bit of everything All rolled into one I'm a bitch, I'm a lover I'm a child, I'm a mother I'm a sinner, I'm a date I do not feel ashamed I'm your help, I'm your dream I'm nothing in between You know you wouldn't want it any other way Take me as I am.
		Maybe you'll have to be the man.
		You're the winner.
		I have to make it hurt.
		And I'm going to extremes.
		Tomorrow I will change.
		And today won't mean a thing.
		I'm a bitch.
		I'm a lover.
		I'm a child.
		I'm a mother.
		I'm a sinner.
		I'm a saint.
		I do not feel ashamed.
		I'm your health.
		I'm your dream.
		I'm nothing in the dream.
		Revere Radio Networks presents Art Bell Somewhere in Thai.
		The night's program originally aired January 7th, 1999.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know, I really have got to tell you, when you do open lines and you don't screen calls, this is what usually happens.
		It's just beyond belief that I would get two calls of the nature that I got in the last hour.
		I mean, think about it a little bit.
		What are the odds?
unidentified		When you think you got me Figured out the feed I'm already changing words to this are great.
		I think you're cool, you do what you do, and don't try to say it is me.
		I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint, I cannot feel ashamed.
		I'm your help, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between, you know you wouldn't want it any other way.
		I'm a bitch, I'm a teen, I'm a goddess on my knees, when you hurt, when you suffer, I'm your angel, I'm your cover, I don't know, I'm revived, can't say I'm not enlightened, you know I won't.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really, just about describing every woman on the face of the earth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We'll be right back.
unidentified		We'll be right back.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Anyway, we were in the middle of the story here.
unidentified		Yeah.
		So, anyway, at this point, she's screaming now, and I'm saying to myself, here we are in this bank, and before you know it, the police are going to come.
		For sure, somebody's going to call them, thinking that I accosted her.
		And at the time, all the realtors in my group, anyway, were all carrying guns.
		We all had permits to carry.
		But I said, I don't need this aggravation.
		I said, let me get out of here.
		So I walked out the door onto Madison, and then I realized I can't go back to my office.
		She's following me.
		She's ranting and raving about the smoking.
		And I apologize in the meantime to the woman.
		I said, I'm sorry.
		I didn't realize I had the cigarette.
		But anyway, she wouldn't stop.
		She's following me.
		So I turned up to Park Avenue and walked north.
		And I was up to around my office on 47th.
		I guess I was up to 51st Street thereabouts on Park.
		And she's still behind me.
		I turned back down to Madison.
		And on the way back down, I stopped at Chuck Full of Nut.
		She came in the door after me, continued to scream and yell.
		And I got my coffee and donut, and I walked back out.
		And my golfing buddy at the time was the chief engineer at the Connie Nas building.
		So I walked down to his building.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And by the way, I have to ask a question.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Had you, during all of this, since the bank, lit up another cigarette?
unidentified		Oh, you know, I don't remember.
		I was thinking about it before, and I don't think I did.
		No.
		I was too embarrassed and occupied with this woman behind me, you know.
		So anyway, I got down to Pat's building, and I walked in the lobby, and sure enough, in the morning, he would stand by the concierge, and I explained to him what happened in the bank.
		I said, Pat, this woman won't stop.
		And she's ranting in his lobby now.
		And this building is where they shoot Vogue magazine and Glamour magazine, all the Condy Nash publications.
		And Pat said, all right, I'll get one of the guys.
		So he got one of the guys, one of the maintenance men, and they took me up to the third floor, I think it was, and there was a staircase that emptied out into the street from there, so I didn't have to go back in the lobby.
		So he held her in the lobby.
		I got back to the office, and somehow, don't ask me how, because I looked all around.
		I didn't see her.
		She had a mink coat on down to the floor.
		I mean, she was a beautiful woman.
		And she must have saw me in the street and followed me anyway, because not two hours later was a call-in about a bomb scare in the building.
		We had to evacuate my building.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		She put a bomb scare.
unidentified		This could only happen in New York City.
unidentified		Yeah, I guess it was she because it was just too coincidental.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, these anti-smokers, they're getting out of hand.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's the most horrible story.
unidentified		That's my pre-date story anyway.
		It never came to...
		I was really going to ask her out, but she couldn't have stood a smoker anyway.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, you know where you probably ended up in a chair in the middle of the room somewhere.
unidentified		Probably.
unidentified		Oh, God.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Horrid little story, but I appreciate it.
unidentified		Thank you a lot.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, take care.
		What does that remind me of?
		I saw a movie.
		Remember the movie where the heck was the name of that movie?
		She finally ended up clubbing the guy's leg so he couldn't leave.
		Here's another one.
		This is from Michael in San Diego, and I want to identify Michael Morton because listen to what he says here.
		I'm going to read it except for one word that I've got to modify, all right?
		Boyart, do I have a date from hell story for you?
		And it's all your fault.
		It's recent, too.
		Six months ago.
		I go out on a date with this 33-year-old woman who's a playwright.
		We go to bed on the first date.
		All seems sensual and good.
		I have a hard time sleeping.
		She seems to be sound asleep.
		I get up, turn her radio on, it's about one o'clock in the morning, and turn to Cogo 600.
		Richard Hoagland was on.
		I don't remember what he was saying.
		Not 15 minutes later, she wakes up, goes to the bathroom, and returns with evil on her face.
		Says, why are you listening to Art Bell?
		I say, I like a show.
		She says, my ex-husband was an Art Bell freak, she said.
		He'd never come to bed or pay attention to me or make love to me.
		Until Art Bell was over at 4 a.m.
unidentified		She cried, I effing hate Art Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Then she kicked me out.
		Wouldn't return any calls.
		Geez, Art, Richard, thanks.
		100% true.
		Mike.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't know what to say about that one.
		You know, when I asked for date from hell stories, I imagined humor.
		But I'm getting real date from hell stories.
		You just, you never know.
		You just never know.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello there.
unidentified		This is Mike calling from Philly.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Philadelphia.
unidentified		Listening on 1210.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		H.T., yes.
unidentified		I hate to change the mood of this, your conversation.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's all right.
unidentified		Silver lines.
		My question was, Speaking Wind and Ghostwind?
		Or Ghostwolf?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Speaking Wind, yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The late Speaking Wind.
unidentified		Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Robert Ghostwolf, yes.
unidentified		He was talking about the fifth world.
		Yes.
		Could the third world have been the lost city of Atlantis?
		I don't know.
		I was just wondering about that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, you know, I'm the wrong guy to ask.
		I mean, I guess Robert Ghostwolf might be able to answer that for you.
		I don't know.
		I'm sorry, I can't.
		I do think that we're in for a change.
		Now, I don't know if that's a change of present venue, as in our Earth, to another dimension.
		I don't know.
		And I don't know what the third dimension is.
		First time, no, date from Hellline.
		You're on the air.
unidentified		Yeah, I heard.
		Got it.
		Kind of a humorous one for you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that'd be good, because what I've been getting lately is stark terror.
unidentified		Yeah, it actually isn't a date.
		It was just going out with a friend.
		And so my friend and I had met, and Mike in San Francisco, by the way.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		And my friend and I had just met, and we had dinner at a restaurant near the Symphony Hall.
		So from there, we walked down to the Symphony Hall, and we saw Mahler's first symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony.
		Wonderful dinner, wonderful music.
		And at that point, I was still driving my geo.
		And we had walked out of the symphony and had walked up Franklin Street to my car.
		And in seven years of driving that car, I had never had any mechanical problems at all.
		And get in the car, the battery is completely, completely dead.
		So the symphony has just let out.
		So traffic on this one-way street is just terrible.
		And so I get out, you know, pop the hood, and then I think, well, you know, we're going to try to flag someone down to give me a jump.
		Of course.
		And so I get back in the car.
		Well, you know, my friend is there, so he's trying to wave down somebody to give us some help.
		So I get back in the car and put the car in neutral.
		I think, well, I'm just going to back up so someone will be able to pull in front of my car to actually perform the jump the car.
		And at some point, the power steering is off because the battery is dead, of course.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you're going to see that.
unidentified		My hand, so I'm trying to turn the wheel.
		My hand slips off the steering wheel.
		I literally punch myself in the nose.
		And so I'm getting out of the car.
		Blood is like dripping from my face.
		And we're trying to just flag someone down to give us a jump.
		Finally, these are the same.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		People are really going to stop with blood all over the place.
unidentified		Yeah.
		Like, you know, my friend said, hey, Mike, maybe you should just pretend that you were just mugged.
		Maybe we would get some help.
		But finally, these girls and these cute girls and then sheep came by and they saw us and we waved at them and then they just kind of looked at us funny and kept driving.
		And they apparently went around the block and they finally stopped and gave us a jump and they said, oh, you know, we weren't going to stop, but we figured, hey, you know, everyone needs some karma in the bank.
		So, you know, good karma for these wonderful girls who gave us a jump.
		So finally, the evening ended, but it felt as if it was never going to.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I hear you.
		Well, that's a moderately intriguing story.
		At least the girls got some karma.
		Don't know what you got.
		Interesting facts.
		Art, I recall you're speaking about the crime problem in South Africa a few months back.
		Well, earlier tonight I watched the Fox Files episode concerning this.
		Apparently the farmers in South Africa are the victims of terrible crimes.
		Farmers arm themselves when they simply work in their fields.
		Farmers' wives have to train and carry handguns in order to go for a simple walk.
		The police are reporting that most of these terrible crimes are being committed by former farm employees.
		Not only are these criminals robbing, but they are murdering farmers and their families as well, simply because of hatred, according to reports.
		Jeff in North Carolina.
		I cannot add enough emphasis.
		I was in South Africa, as you know, not long ago, and in Johannesburg, and then I was north of Johannesburg, near the Kruger Park, and then I was in Cape Town, and Johannesburg is a truly, truly frightening place where people are machine-gunning each other.
		You really cannot imagine how bad it is.
		In America, we would consider it beyond anarchy.
		I mean, it's the Mad Max scenario.
		And Africa is one scary place right now, and I'll tell you why it's happening.
		It's basically happening because Nelson Mandela will not institute control.
		Now, as you know, Partheid ended.
		Nelson Mandela is the president of South Africa, and he's a well-intentioned man, but because he is afraid politically that if he were to clamp down, he would look like the previous regime, he's reacting in exactly the opposite way and not clamping down on anything.
		And the result is beyond anarchy.
		I mean, it is a truly frightening place.
		And I recommend to any of you who are even considering a trip to Africa to consider very hard before you go.
		Now, this will change eventually, as all things do.
		But right now, I'm telling you right now that Africa is one scary, crime-ridden, dangerous place to be.
		And that doesn't apply necessarily to all parts of Africa, but South Africa right now is in big trouble, crime-wise.
		Big trouble.
		They have people on the streets there, the beggars on the streets, solicit money by wearing signs, all of them now, not just some, all of them, that say, I don't do crime.
		You know, it's like, give me money because I don't do crime.
		I'm one of the few that don't do crime, and they're right.
		They are one of the few that don't do crime.
		Everybody else does.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		Hi, is this Art Bell?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It is.
unidentified		This is Kaya from Colorado.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Kaya from Colorado.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How you doing, Kaya?
unidentified		Pretty good.
unidentified		I have a date story, Dave from Hell Story to share.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What kind of phone are you on, huh?
unidentified		I'm on a cellular phone, and it's probably not great sounding.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, we'll do the best we can.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		Okay.
		I'm a former Centerfold model for a men's magazine.
		Well, many men's magazines.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		This one, this particular deal I was working on in California, we were doing a video shoot that was a pay-per-view thing.
unidentified		And this magazine that I was doing this for, they're probably the second most popular men's magazine around.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Okay.
		So one of the guys I was working with, he was directing the shoot, and he was the owner of the magazine's son.
		So I don't want to say that.
		Yeah, don't.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You don't have to.
unidentified		Okay.
		Well, anyway, we did the shoot, you know, all day long, and it was pretty fun.
		We shot in Beverly Hills.
		And then afterwards, the guy asked me if I wanted to go out and do something.
		And there was another girl that was working on the same thing.
		And this other guy that was a friend of the owner's son.
		So we ended up going to this place in LA called the Mousetrap and a bunch of other places.
		And then we broke off into couples.
		And I ended up going back to the hotel where I was staying with the owner's son.
		So he went to his room and I was going to go to my room.
		He actually walked me to my room and then asked if I wanted to come up to his room if he wanted to show me something.
		And, well, actually, okay, before that, we went into my room.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So she was in bed with a guy.
unidentified		So yeah, she was in bed with somebody.
unidentified		So since my room was occupied, I decided to go upstairs to the owner of the magazine, Sentinel's room.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		So then the thing was that he kept telling me that there was something that he really wanted to show me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So such an original line.
unidentified		So we get in there, into his room, and he starts unbuttoning his shirt.
		And I start getting sort of nervous.
		And he says, don't worry, I'm not going to touch you.
		And so he starts.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wait a minute, the tension is too much for me.
		We're at a break point.
		Can you do it after the break?
unidentified		Sure, I'd love to.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, good, good, good.
		I've got to hear the rest of this.
		Rarely do I get to talk to a center fold for the second most popular men's magazine.
		This has really been some night.
		I'm Art Bell, and this is Coast to Coast AM.
		As the old saying goes, don't touch that dial.
unidentified		You're listening to Art Bell, somewhere in Time.
		Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from January 7, 1999.
		Hey, round about their home.
		People of the town are strange.
		And the town of where they came.
		Where you coming up, China, grow, China, grow.
		Where I'm trying to go.
		Where the preacher and the preacher, they're all they've come.
		They are the clock of the town.
		When they got the chicks a-flyin'day in line.
		When the sun goes fallin'down.
		They say they're the father's in vain.
		They're Mr. Perkins again.
		We're talkin'about the time.
		We'll be happy.
		And we'll be happy.
		We're talkin'about the time.
		You're listening to our bell somewhere in time, tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from January 7th, 1999.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good morning, everybody, from the high desert, where it's about 45 degrees out there right now.
		Actually, rather moderate.
		That's plus Fahrenheit, 45 degrees.
unidentified		On the lazy fallen river, surrounding Campbell County.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, I want you to listen to me very, very carefully now, alright?
		I'm about to tell you of two things that you should have for whatever may come this way.
		One of them is storable food, and I've been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting to be able to tell you about this.
		No, you know what?
		I've got a young lady on the line who's on a cellular, and she's a centerfold, and you don't keep centerfolds waiting.
		So I will tell you about all of this after we go back to her because I'm really curious.
		So get out your pen and pencil and give you time to get that all together.
		Are you still there?
unidentified		Yes, I'm here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so where were we?
unidentified		Okay.
unidentified		We were in the hotel room.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		With the son of the publisher, owner.
unidentified		Right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		Of the second most popular men's magazine.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Around.
		Okay.
		So, like I said, he wanted to show me something.
		So, okay, I'm up there, and he starts unbuttoning his shirt.
		I'm getting nervous.
		And he starts playing with his nipples.
		And now I'm really getting nervous.
		And he says that, you know, don't worry, he's not going to touch me.
		He just wants to show me something.
		And so I know we're on the radio, so I'm just going to try to say this, you know, without saying anything wrong here.
		But then he takes off his pants, and he's not wearing any underwear.
		Now, are you sure that I can go here?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, we're on national radio here.
unidentified		Well, I'm going to tell you what he did.
unidentified		I'm not going to use the wrong words.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But I'm not certain I really want to know what.
unidentified		Well, maybe I want to know, but I don't know if I want to know on the air.
		It's unbelievable.
		I mean, I have never, ever, ever seen this before in my life.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, well, I've got a button that erases seven seconds here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You go ahead and tell me, and we'll see.
unidentified		So.
		Well, okay.
		He laid down on the floor.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		And he rolled his legs up.
unidentified		So he was sort of standing on his shoulders.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Then he rolled his legs back, sort of like touching the ground, like over his head.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, I'm afraid that we couldn't go there.
		On another show, we might have been able to go there.
		But I'm not going there.
		Not at all.
		Not at 2.30 in the morning, or 3 or 4 or 5.30 or whatever it is in the morning.
		I'm not going there.
		I'm sure it was for you, young lady, a horrible, horrible experience.
		As well as something that probably should be immediately reported to some wholly owned subsidiary of the Guinness Book of World Records or something.
		Wildcardline, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Yeah, thanks for sparing us from that.
		Oh, you're a good idea.
		Yeah, I just got some visuals out there.
		Anyway, this is Dave from San Jose KSFO.
		Yes.
		i've made some christmas gifts from checks the people for christmas and getting the emails back from these people saying that uh...
		detector coming back from the bank and saying insufficient and track not insufficient part that i just got off the phone believe it out of school does that mean So then I, maybe an hour ago, I was just on the phone with my bank, and I won't mention which one it is, whether it might be of whatever.
		And I go, what's happening here?
		And they're like, well, no, we don't show anything like that.
		And I go, what does insufficient address mean?
		And they're like, we honestly, we don't know.
		I don't show any checks being bounced back.
		I go, well, you know, they have them in their hand, and they're coming from you.
		So I'm kind of thinking maybe this is another Y2K glitch.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		At this point, I'm calling somebody back who's got one of these insufficient address stamps on my check, and I'm going to cart it down in my bank and say, what the hell is this?
unidentified		Well, what I'm going to do is these people are obviously I'm in San Jose, they're down in Laguna Beach, but what I'll have to do tomorrow is maybe it's on their bank site or something, but I've never even heard of that before, so I'll check into it, obviously, tomorrow.
unidentified		And I was wondering something else, have you noticed that after we bombed Iraq, I was, and this is in December, in a four-week period of time you had, you know, remember when the Russians protested against it?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		everybody was like, yeah, big deal, the Russians?
		Well, when I read these articles, it was real quick.
		It was Russia and Belarus got together.
		Then the EU got real cozy with the Chinese.
		And then the Chinese, Russian, and India want to get together and have a strategic, what they call a strategic triangle.
		And then Russia deployed those new missiles, and they're all combat ready.
		And this is within a four-week span.
		And I haven't even heard this on the news.
		I just caught this at different wire services on the net.
		And when you look at all of this stuff, and Russia's going to export 20% more weapons down to the eras because they're exploiting their obvious hatred of us now.
		When you look at it and put all these stories together, it's almost like in one month of December, the whole world literally shifted, and we've been totally isolated.
		I don't know if you've been following that or...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I follow all the news all the time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm a news junkie.
unidentified		It's amazing just the speed of how that happened over that short period of time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It is, and I've seen it occur as well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I really appreciate your call.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much.
		he's of course exactly correct Sounds of the wind West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Yes.
		Okay.
		Hey, I didn't, I've been listening.
		I don't.
		Evidently, there must be a delay or something on the transmission.
		Are you on the air now?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Seven second delay, actually.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So if you say something bad, I can erase it like you were never there.
unidentified		Yeah, this is Jeff in Santa Monica, California.
unidentified		Did you hear that we had a power outage on this side of the continent?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		When?
unidentified		I would say about 1025 for about 20 minutes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In Santa Monica?
unidentified		In Santa Monica, what do you call it?
unidentified		Palas Verdes, down there in San Pedro.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And what are they saying caused it?
unidentified		They don't know yet.
		But it just knocked out the whole area.
		The whole area was black.
		And I was thinking, oh boy, this could be the first symptoms of the Y2K stuff with controllers in the power station.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know what I think?
		I think that, thank you very much for the information.
		I think that if this kind of stuff begins to happen, they're not going to say they're not going to tell us the truth.
		They're not going to tell us that it's Y2K related.
		I bet you they won't tell us.
		A lot of that information, I'll bet you, will be held back.
		But you know me.
		I think that way.
		First time calling a line, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		All right, I thought this was the date from hell line.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, it is.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
unidentified		It is.
		Okay, very good.
		How you been?
		Listen, listen.
		I got a story about a date from hell.
		All right.
		All right.
		This is the Bronx brother.
		I was 17 years old.
		Went into Times Square.
		It's a different kind of date because I was actually soliciting a prostitute.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They're in the Bronx.
unidentified		Yeah, no, this is in Manhattan, Times Square.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Manhattan, all right.
unidentified		Okay, so I'm 17 years old.
		I'm high on acid.
		And we're cruising around Times Square.
		And I see this girl.
		She's a big girl, right?
		So, you know, she says, hey, honey, you looking for a date?
		I'm like, yeah, I'm looking for a date.
		So she jumps in the car.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And she's actually solicited you.
unidentified		Right.
		Well, I was looking for something.
		She solicited me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You were cruising to be solicited.
unidentified		Yes, yes.
		Being 17 and, you know, all of that, and pretty stoned at the time.
		But so we're cruising around Times Square, and she's sitting next to me, and I'm noticing, you know, she's an awful big girl.
		And we're, you know, the neon lights are rather strong in Times Square.
		And I just happened to look over at the right time, and I saw the neon light hitting off the 5 o'clock shadow.
		And I realized I had a 6'2 transvestite in the car.
		And I'm like to my friend, hey, pull the car over here, okay?
		And he's like, what's wrong, Joe?
		And I'm like, well, listen, just pull the car over here.
		And suddenly the transvestite's like, what's wrong, honey?
		What's wrong?
		And I'm like, look, get out of the car.
		And just, come on, baby, you with me.
		You my date.
		I'm like, get out of the freaking car now.
		And then I just went ballistic and basically booted her out of the car.
		And that was my day from hell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's a good one.
		That's a great one.
		I'm surprised you had the guts to come on the air and tell a national audience about that.
unidentified		Oh, hell yes, anytime.
unidentified		And I swear to God, it's a true story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, no.
		I believe you.
		I've been to New York.
		I believe you.
unidentified		Hey, Laura, listen, man.
unidentified		The thing with Curtis, you know what I think would be great?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What?
unidentified		If you did come to New York and you and Curtis did a couple hours at WABC together.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I wonder how Curtis would handle that.
unidentified		I think Curtis would love it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You think so?
unidentified		I think he would love it, and I think it would be one of the greatest several hours on WABC in a long time.
unidentified		Even though they have a very strong lineup this year.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It does sound like fun.
unidentified		I think people would be going nuts.
unidentified		And I think you and Curtis would have a good time together.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm considering it.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, thanks.
unidentified		All right, take care, man.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I'll see you later.
		Curtis has really been going berserk lately.
		But only the people in New York and surrounding areas know that.
		We had this thing going about an hour of airtime.
		I thought he was going to go to mornings.
		That was the last thing I heard.
		And I was going to go after his 5 a.m. hour.
		I thought, cool.
		Here's a chance to get the final hour on the air.
		Yeah, well.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
		Hello.
		Good morning, Art.
		Good morning.
		This is Cindy Liu in Denton, Texas.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Cindy, how are you?
unidentified		Good.
unidentified		I've got a Date from Hell story to share.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you?
		You know, it's like once you get something Like this started, it's like a steamroller and you can't stop it.
		So go right ahead.
unidentified		You know, there's also a book out there called That, don't you?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is there?
unidentified		Yes, I have a copy.
		I can email you the information on it.
		Figures.
		This was back in the early 80s, and I was going with a friend to the opening of a restaurant, and we were behind a car that was driving really erratically.
		And I suggested that we pull back a little bit and fall back and not be too close.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sure.
unidentified		And they were going from left to right, but unfortunately, we were the only ones on the road, and we both came to a stoplight, and they were in front of us.
		And when the light changed, we noticed that the driver was the woman, there was a passenger, there was a man.
		He had her by the hair and was hitting her head against the door, the driver's side door window.
		And so the driver of the vehicle I was in, my date, honked his horn to tell him to go because it had turned green.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		And instead, the passenger got out, started walking to my side of the door, and I promptly rolled up the window and locked the door.
		Good for you.
		Yeah, I was a lot smarter than the driver.
		He went around to my date side, and I don't know what he was trying to do, but he reached in, and my date grabbed a screwdriver that was between the seats and proceeded to, like he was going to stab him.
		So I screamed and grabbed the screwdriver out of his hand and finally got the guy, we got him away from the window, and my friend backed up and we started to go around the car.
		And the guy jumped out in front of us and we ran him over.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You ran him over?
unidentified		Well, I didn't.
		I was passenger, but yeah, my driver did.
		And he freaked out when he did that, which, you know, of course I did too.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Who freaked out?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Your dad?
unidentified		He did.
		He ran him over and then he panicked and floored it.
		And I was screaming, go back.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, did he run him over solid?
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
		His eyes met mine as we went over the top of him.
		We were in an international van, which the motor was like between the seats.
		So it was like one of those snub-nosed vehicles.
		Yeah.
		But we went on up about two or three car lengths, and I was, you know, he was trying to get away.
		He was freaking out, and I was screaming, go back.
		So then he realized I was right, and so he put it in reverse and backed over the guy.
		Again?
		I'm not kidding, no.
		And we backed over, and we heard this thump, and in my mind, I just saw the visual of the guy's head popping like a grape, and I freaked.
		So I got out, and I had worked at the trauma center there in Amarillo, so I kind of knew what to do.
		So I got out and ran over to the guy, and believe it or not, he was trying to get up, and there was no visible.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What, what, what?
unidentified		He was trying to get up out of the street.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		After he'd been run over twice?
unidentified		Well, obviously, we had straddled, he had, you know, straddled him to where he didn't actually get ran over by the tires, obviously.
		And the thump was his elbow coming up and hitting the oil pan.
		I'm sorry.
		Now it's funny.
		Then it was very traumatic.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's a horrible story.
unidentified		As I was holding him there, trying to keep him from getting up, because obviously he had to have been injured.
		And I was yelling at cars to call the police in an ambulance.
		The cars were going by watching us.
		The wife gets out of the car and starts kicking me and hitting me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, great.
unidentified		She's attacking me as I'm trying to tell the guy, this was an accident.
		Please be calm.
		You could be hurt.
		Just lay there and be still.
		Helps on their way.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And so the wife's beating on you.
unidentified		She's trying to kill me.
		And the police come up and literally peel her off of me.
		And the ambulance takes him and they go off to where I work, basically.
		It was my night off.
		They took him to my job.
		And the police were trying to get me to press charges for assault, and I wouldn't do it.
		And I said, think about it.
		If someone ran over my husband and backed over him again, I'd probably be a little upset, too.
		out sure but i mean He was released, Truden released after the X-rays.
		He had nothing but a skin elbow.
		And he got him on five different charges.
		Stolen vehicle, drugs in the trunk.
		I can't even remember all the other things.
		They wanted to add assault to it, but I wouldn't press charges.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It sounds like you didn't need to.
unidentified		No, I didn't go back out with that guy again, and I'd known him for quite some time, but I realized if he's going to freak like that, I really don't want to be with someone like that.
		And we never got to go to the restaurant.
		By the time all of this was over, and I checked on the guy and realized that he wasn't injured, everything was closed.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know, I'm beginning to feel not very safe.
unidentified		I don't date anymore.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You don't date anymore.
unidentified		I've been married twice, been there, done that, got the papers, and I just don't go there anymore.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I see.
		Well, I'm afraid I can't say I blame you.
		I appreciate your story.
		Thank you.
unidentified		Welcome to 73's Art.
unidentified		Oh, back on the art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It must be a ham.
		It must be a ham.
		All right, take care.
		Can you imagine being in a car, running over somebody twice, not just forwards, but then backing up and running over them again, and you're the passenger.
		I mean, that story.
		Welcome to the Rockies.
		You're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hey, I've got a terrible date story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It'll have to be.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The show is almost over, so if you can do a short version, go.
unidentified		Short version, work for a law firm.
unidentified		Senior partner set me up on a lunch date with a visiting Japanese diplomat.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		The guy takes me to a sushi place.
		I don't eat sushi.
		He orders me steak.
		He cuts it up.
		Then he starts eating it to me.
		What?
		He's feeding me sick.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In a sushi house?
unidentified		In a sushi house.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And he's a Japanese guy.
unidentified		He's a Japanese guy.
		Then it gets worse.
		It gets bad.
		He's taking me back to my place of work.
		It's Friday afternoon, downtown Denver, rush hour for the afternoon.
		He's driving up the street, the one-way street, the wrong way, telling me about how Japanese men keep American mistresses.
		And I'm thinking, this is just, this is ridiculous.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Actually, they do.
		You know, and they keep them in high style, too.
		They spend a lot of money.
unidentified		So he told me.
		But, you know, my hands are on the dashboard thinking I'm going to die because we're driving directly into oncoming traffic.
		He looks over at me.
		He tells me how beautiful I am.
		And then he looks down at his lap.
		And he says to me, you have noticeable effect on me.
		And I looked at his lap briefly.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I think I get the picture more than I want to get the picture.
		Well, folks, this has been open line, unscreened, obviously, talk radio.
		That's the way it goes.
		Tomorrow night, we're going to have a whole wrapped of guests.
		And don't forget, we're going to be taping Dreamland between 1 and 4 o'clock with Stanton Friedman later today.
		For now, that's it.
		That's enough.

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