Art Bell and Leland Gregory dive into bizarre 911 calls from What’s the Number for 911 Again?, including a deer shooting victim trapped in a phone booth, a woman convinced neighbors are cooking a human, and a python-snake bite that won’t let go. Gregory, a "911 deep throat," shares uncensored clips like Assault with Batteries (AA battery confusion) and Itchy Legs, while promoting an educational initiative to teach kids proper 911 use. Amidst the chaos, Bell breaks news of George Harrison’s death at 58, reflecting on his spiritual influence on The Beatles, before addressing callers’ concerns—from earthquake myths to a Connecticut caller’s outrage over laughter during a rape victim’s call. The segment underscores humanity’s absurdity and the ethical toll on emergency responders, even as dark humor persists. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert in the great American Southwest, I bid you good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be across this great globe of ours, all 24 time zones.
And as you know, I was a 911 operator for, I don't know, a year until I finally decided that my life couldn't handle it, and I couldn't handle the stress of the real life and death situations.
Now, I get sent ghost photographs by, I mean, just tons and tons and tons of ghost photographs.
But this one is a Class A A A winner.
This one's going to blow you away.
It's a man in Indonesia.
A Brian Kane sent this to us.
And it's a man who was alone when they took the picture in Indonesia out, you know, out in the woods it looks like.
And you can clearly see he's just standing there.
And behind him.
Oh, my goodness.
Behind him.
You tell me what this is.
It clearly is not.
It's not fully formed.
It's almost fully formed.
It's a woman.
I make it a woman with long hair.
There are no legs.
She's only sort of, I would say, eight-tenths there.
This is a hot ghost photo.
I've seen a lot of ghost photos.
Hundreds of ghost photos, maybe.
And this one's hot.
So, how do you get to it?
You go to artbell.com and you click on what's new.
It'll say ghost in Indonesia.
Question mark.
Question mark.
Click on that and you tell me this one is something else.
It gave me the chills when I looked at it.
And I dissect an awful lot of ghost pictures and I reject 99.9% of them as explainable one way or the other.
You know, some sort of camera anomaly or the camera strap is a frequent problem.
You know, there are all kinds of reasons that I reject ghost photos.
But I'm telling you, man, I'm telling you, this one is something else.
See if you agree with me.
Up on my website right now at artbell.com.
I'd be very interested in your feedback.
President Bush strongly is defending U.S. authorization of military tribunals and the questioning of Middle Easterners in the U.S. He said, quote, we're an open society, but we're at war, end quote.
We'll act with fairness and will deliver justice, which is some far bit more than the terrorists ever grant to their innocent victims.
So, you know, there's been a lot of criticism of his anti-terror tactics, but as he said, my God, folks, we're at war.
We really are at war.
So they're doing what they have to do.
Their job, the government's job, is to protect us.
That's one of the reasons you shell out the tax dollars, you know, to be protected.
And I understand they're getting a little close to Fourth Amendment problems, and I understand the criticism, but I don't agree with it.
You know, we are at war.
That is not a trivial saying or thing.
It's very serious, and we really are at war.
So, oh, well.
Kandahar's outskirts saw heavy fighting today.
That's where it's coming down to Kandahar.
As anti-Taliban fighters and the hardline militia clash, a key commander said, meanwhile, it is being declared a decisive battle, or what will be a decisive battle, has now begun.
The Northern Alliance's deputy defense minister told the Associated Press that anti-Taliban fighters reached the eastern edge of Kandahar with heavy fighting going on.
Witnesses reported heavy bombing around the southern city, so it looks like it's all now coming down to Kandahar.
And maybe this part of the war will soon be over.
Talks are going on with regard to Afghanistan's political future.
With the Northern Alliance dropping its rejection of international security forces, moving closer to a power sharing agreement to end the Afghan suffering.
How do you all feel about rebuilding Afghanistan?
Now, my first complaint would be that it was mostly rubble before we began.
So I don't know.
I mean, we always do that.
We always rebuild countries at some point after we go to war with them.
Didn't really occur in Vietnam, though, did it?
We really didn't go and rebuild Vietnam.
But generally, in wars, the U.S. has gone in and rebuilt.
And they're talking about it now.
And I don't know.
I really don't know.
The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution today extending the UN humanitarian program in Iraq, Setting the stage for an overall vote of UN sanctions against Baghdad next year.
So, you know, that's probably where all this is going to move.
It's probably going to focus on Iraq after Afghanistan.
That's just my guess.
I don't know that for sure.
NASA called off today's launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station because of danger from a Russian supply ship.
Get that.
Hanging from the orbiting outpost, the unmanned Russian ship had arrived at the space station yesterday, but failed to attach itself securely.
NASA feared the forces exerted by the arriving shuttle would cause the supply ship to wobble, perhaps damaging the space station.
Now, I don't know whether you've heard this or not, and I have no way of knowing whether this is true.
But somebody writes me, I thought you'd like to know what happened in a small town north of Bakersfield, California.
It's a pretty interesting story, and of course it relates to the events in New York, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon.
On September 11th, that fateful day, a Budweiser employee was making a delivery to a convenience store in a town called, well, I won't give the town, all right?
He knew of the tragedy that had occurred in New York.
He entered the business to find two Arabs whooping and hollering and really cheering it up.
It was obvious they were elated with what had happened earlier.
So the Budweiser employee, the story goes, went to his truck, called his boss, and told him of the very upsetting event.
He didn't feel that he could be in the store with those horrible people.
His boss told him, do you think you could go in there long enough to pull every Budweiser product an item or beverage company sells there?
We'll never deliver again.
The employee walked in, proceeded to pull every single product his beverage company provided, and left with an incredible grin on his face.
He told them to never bother to even call for any deliveries again.
Budweiser happens to be the beer of choice for that particular community.
Now, it didn't even end there.
It seems the Budweiser driver had friends, in particular, the Pepsi route driver.
The Bud driver called his Pepsi friend from his cell phone while he was still in the store and told him what happened.
Seems Pepsi driver called his boss, got roughly the identical orders that the Bud driver did.
So the Pepsi guy went in, took everything out of the store under their corporate brand.
And you know that's PepsiCo, Pepsi, Frito-Lay, everything, nearly everything in the store.
Last I had heard, he goes on, the store had no product, no customers.
Word spreads pretty fast in small towns, you know, and no hope.
So I have no way of knowing if that's a legit story.
That's why I left the name of the town out, but I'm sure I'll get some feedback.
Oh, I know.
I do need feedback on a couple of things.
I wonder if you can help me with this.
I love this song.
I use it as bumper music a lot, but I don't know what it's called.
I'm sure some of you know exactly what this is and who does it.
That's what I would like to know.
What is it called exactly and who does it?
These things haunt me.
I mean, it's a piece of music that I absolutely love, and you would think I would have the title of it, but I certainly do not.
I have it on CD, but I don't have the title of it.
Moreover, if anybody out there has an email list, I could use this, an email list of all the best oldies but goodies in the world.
You know, if you have a comprehensive list of all the best oldies but goodies, the song name and the artist, and you could possibly email that to me, I would be forever grateful.
My email address, by the way, for all of you, we don't take snail mail now because of, you know, obviously because of what's been going on, that's pretty much true across the media.
But my email address is artbell, A-R-T-B-E-L-L, at mindspring.com.
And what I need is sort of an email encyclopedia of all the greatest oldies and who did them.
I am bone tired, and I mean bone tired, of loving a song and not being able to come up with the artist and the title.
You would think with all the years I spent in rock radio, and it was a lot, I would know them all.
But I don't.
I particularly don't know this one, and it's driving me nuts.
That was perhaps where I was making my mistake looking for a reference.
I understand.
Songs, you know, I hear from people all the time with reference to my own bumper music, and I just play what I like.
You know, I sort of, when I hear a song I like, I add it to my bumper music, and it drives people out there crazy, and a lot of times they say, why is that?
Who does it?
I've got to know.
And most times I don't know myself, so I really can't answer.
I had to know that.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
Art Bill, how are you?
Pretty spiffy, sir.
How are you?
unidentified
Oh, great.
And I wanted to ask you something about those vapor trails you've been talking about.
He said some things that were quite interesting to me.
On the one hand, well, let me give my bias up front.
I'm a lay pastor up here in Canada.
All right.
Now, he had stated that people that say you are of the devil are ignorant, lack knowledge, and lack experience from a reading in one of his sessions, right?
So my question is, what's the difference between von Prague and the authors of the Bible?
How can he claim not to give credence to the Bible, but then claim credence for himself?
Both the Bible and his books are inspired by spirits in the extra dimension, but the Bible claims to be inspired by the Spirit of God himself.
Now, a while back, you had a guest on him, Chuck Missler, who said that there's a warfare going on inside that spiritual realm for the souls of mankind.
Well, not exactly, because you believe it's the unblemished word of God.
I'm saying I think you could have reasonable doubts about a lot of what's in the Bible, and you could have reasonable doubts about a great deal of what James von Prague says.
unidentified
Right.
Now, both books claim to be inspired by an extra dimension.
And the Bible says that there's a warfare going on in that dimension for the souls of mankind.
Chuck Missler called mankind both the pawn and the prize.
And he said the primary weapon of the opposition to God was deception.
Would it not follow that there would be opposition forces giving messages to mankind that were in direct contradiction to the messages given by the Spirit of God himself?
Doesn't it seem like it ought to be called Hold On to What You Got?
Listen carefully.
unidentified
Listen to the strangest stories Wondering where it all went wrong For so long For so long But hold on, hold on, hold on To what you got Hold on, hold on All right.
I was concerned because so far in the last week's discussions about the cloning issue, I hadn't heard anyone mention some information that I had picked up.
It was either in a Time or a Newsweek magazine.
It had been in the last few months.
They had Somewhat of a detailed article about the procedure to actually get Dolly, the sheep.
And they also said that it would be somewhat similar to actually have a full-grown human being that was cloned.
And the part about it that concerned me was that they said it took about 250 tries to get Dolly, and that most of the tries were grossly deformed.
You're right.
And that that would probably be the case with the human beings.
Yes, so the problem that I have personally, ethically, with that is that I really don't believe that life should be created knowing that the majority of it would be killed.
On the other hand, if they can develop the technology to the point where, for example, they can grow just an organ or a limb, a hand or an arm or a leg or a liver or a heart, if they can just grow that, then we've got good times ahead.
unidentified
Yes, well, that does definitely change things.
You know, for me, if I looked at it with just that, but as far as actually growing a living human being, it becomes a lot more complicated.
Anyway, I did want to let people know, I think it was in a spring issue of either Time or Newsweek.
There was quite a detailed article in there, about seven or eight pages long, that explained it better than any articles that I had read.
The fact of the matter is that since September 11th, all news, I don't care what you watch and where you go, everything has been consumed with news of the war and the events of September 11th.
And so it's not just UFOs that have been washed away in terms of publicity, but everything else also.
unidentified
Yeah, I guess they're all just sitting off-planet watching us.
Coming up, we're going to actually have some fun tonight.
It's a pretty rare commodity lately.
Leland Gregory is a former writer for Saturday Night Live, co-author of the New York Times bestseller, America's Dumbest Criminals, which enjoyed 17 weeks, by the way, on the bestseller list, as well as the author of five other books, including Great Government Goofs, Presumed Ignorant, and Presidential Indiscretions.
His latest book, What's the Number for 911 Again, is a sequel to his bestseller, What's the Number for 911, published through Andrews McNeill.
Leland has also compiled two audio CDs of Stupid 911 phone calls, Wacky911 and Wacky911 Again.
We have those.
He's made two appearances on the Today Show, Inside Edition, MSNBC, as well as making appearances on Extra, Deborah Duncan's Show, My Show.
Considered to be the chronicler of stupid America, Leland also has a book on stupid criminals slated for release in 2002.
I wonder if we can get some of that info tonight, as well as a calendar of stupid 911 phone calls set for 2003.
He co-wrote the feature film Ernest and the Great Pizza Race.
Listen, there are some other things before we get into what we're going to do tonight with the audio, which will be fun, that I would like to ask you about that you've done.
Well, I suppose that criminals really probably, for the most part, really aren't too bright or they wouldn't be doing what they're doing.
unidentified
Exactly.
I mean, this whole media portrayal of criminals as being these cunning masterminds who, you know, wear black leotards and slide down on nylon rope and execute these flawless plans.
I suppose alcohol plays a big part in an awful lot of stupid crimes.
unidentified
Right.
Alcohol and drugs.
I mean, some of them that I don't even include anymore are the ones that happen so often.
Like they see a restaurant that they want to break into, and they think, hmm, well, the door's locked.
Oh, but there's like an exhaust fan up there.
So they climb up to the roof, lower themselves down through the exhaust fan, thinking it's going to lead out into this nice empty room.
And of course, by the time it gets to the very end of the exhaust fan, it's only about 12 inches wide, and only their feet come out, and then they can't get back up.
You know, you would think that during the period that the body was becoming a skeleton, since it was in an air duct, somebody would have noticed a foul odor.
No, no, and by the way, while we're on the subject, you know, I told my audience, look, even though there's no even close relationship between obviously what you're doing and what happened in New York, because it happened on 9-11 and because the title of your book includes 9-11, that's the only relationship, 9-1-1, actually, we put it off because the hypersensitivity to the whole thing.
How has this affected, if at all, your book and everything you do?
I mean, it must have crushed you the day it happened.
I was getting ready to appear on The Today Show to promote my book and CD because September 11th was National 911 Day.
It was the first day of the kickoff of the publicity.
I was going to appear on The Today Show, and then I was going to be on MSNBC Extra Insight Edition, one of your competitors that's based out of New York, and then Joey Reynolds late at night.
I told her, and this is something I haven't told anybody before, I said, get the security box, go to the bank, pull out all the money, pick up our son from school, go to your mom's house in the country.
Go right now.
Because I thought this is the end of the end.
Since I was right there in the center of it all, and she was so far away, she didn't have that feeling.
But we lived fairly close to the airport, and I thought, you know, my mind was just saying, go somewhere safe.
It's all I was doing all day long and right up until airtime.
And it put me in a sort of a state of shock, and it happened to the whole country.
Weird things.
I mean, our economy got slammed.
And look what's happening to the airlines, and people aren't flying, and it's just, it's still very weird.
unidentified
It was devastating.
And, you know, for me personally, I had all my eggs in the basket of that one day of publicity.
And it's just now starting to come back because, like you said, the title's 911, it's about emergency phone calls, although they're all funny and no one dies.
The people are saying, you know, gee, this is too soon.
We're not ready for this.
People aren't ready to laugh about anything related to, you know, emergency phone calls.
All right, listen, let's do a little bit of it so they understand what we're, just in case a lot of people will have missed the first show, and for that reason, I'm already getting a million requests for Joe and the Deer, you know.
So we'll do some of that, but let's do some new stuff.
Well, Gene, you know, I get any number of calls like that.
Let's listen.
unidentified
Okay, mostly you people are a bunch of bulls.
But if you'd like to do something that's really worthwhile, get on TV, onto the TV nervous stations at 6 o'clock and let the public know where the hell all these butterflies came from today.
Is that fair enough?
Butterflies?
Yes.
Where did they come from?
Where did they come from?
Do you have a problem that police officers can help you with, sir?
What's that?
Do you have a problem that police officers can help you with?
Hell no, I just want to know where all, and so does everybody else.
Where did all the butterflies come from today?
Do you know little butterflies that fly through the air?
I have no idea, sir.
Well, get on TV news people and tell them that they're supposed to know.
But try and get him.
Try and get into a news station.
You can't do it.
You can't do it.
Goodbye.
I wonder why they don't let someone like that into a TV news station now, don't you, Ark?
Some 911 operators, if it's fairly slow, I mean, I remember when I was working, if it was fairly slow and you got a call like that, you'd have fun with them.
But, I mean, if you're dealing with life and death stuff and you get a call like that, it's hard to handle.
unidentified
Exactly.
Especially in one thing I'm trying to emphasize now is that with the events of September 11th, please refrain from calling 911 because now we really know how important what these people do really is.
I mean, since I was there, it was amazing to see how quickly everybody responded.
I mean, that city was not back on its feet, but it was back in working condition very soon.
A lot of people are going to want the uncensored one.
How do they get that?
unidentified
They can get it two ways.
They can get it through our website at wacky911.com or they can order it through our toll-free number at 1-800-617-7792.
And I just wanted to mention that since I was in New York on September 11th, that 10% of all the profits from both the website and any orders taken over the toll-free are going to the 911 Disaster Relief Fund, which goes Immediately to the families of the firefighters and police.
So you don't have to make a donation.
You know, we're not asking people to do anything, but as soon as you buy any CD, any book, and that's not just the 911, it's any of my books that I've written that are included on the website, anything you order over the toll-free number, we automatically donate 10% to the 911 Disaster Relief Fund.
And there was a big brooha about it, and then they finally came out and announced, yes, all the money's going to go directly where you wanted it to go.
unidentified
Right.
I don't want any fat cat siphoning off, you know, thinking, oh, this is a great way of making money.
You know, because since I was there, and I've made numerous friends in the 911 community and in the police department from my America's Dumbest Criminals book and all the 911 books that, you know, these people, as you know, are usually kept in the basement.
A lot of times it's windowless.
They work long hours.
That's right.
They take phone calls.
More than 50% of all the phone calls they receive are from their frivolous, non-emergency, or completely ridiculous phone calls.
Actually, you know, at a critical time like that, for the person making the call, it would be a close call between bleeding to death and making the call.
unidentified
There was a call like that, which there was a man, a person was walking by the house and they heard someone screaming from inside and moaning.
And they yelled in, do you need, you know, are you okay?
Yeah, I'm fine.
I'm fine.
Ow!
Ow!
No, are you okay?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Ah!
And they said, look, I'm going to call the ambulance.
No, don't, don't, don't.
And they called anyway.
And what happened was they found the man, he somehow had his unit stuck in the drain of the sink.
And this, of course, was before E911, which is Enhanced 911, where as soon as the person placed the call, the displayed on the monitor, they know exactly where he was.
They weren't giving the guy a hard time.
They were actually trying to find out where he is.
It does assault the sensibilities a little bit, but it is the funniest thing you ever have heard.
I'm Art Bell, and this is Coast to Coast AM.
The End Sorry, once again, here is Leland Gregory, collector of strange things.
Remind us, how do you get these things?
I mean, obviously, people will send you this or that, but then don't you have to seek some kind of permission to be able to put them on publicly like this?
unidentified
Actually, the calls are all considered a matter of public record.
And they're all available through the Freedom of Information Act.
But unfortunately, in order to obtain them, you have to submit a form and say, I want this call that came in on this date through this communication center at this time from this time to this time.
Well, this one's kind of interesting because she's obviously a humanitarian who cares deeply about her cat and doesn't want it to get hurt by anyone else but the 911 operator.
Okay, we're going to.
Oh, yes.
I contacted the animal shelter right next to the Humane Society because I want to have my cat put to sleep.
They said to call the police if they've considered it an emergency.
I want to have my cat put to sleep.
Okay, I don't know what you want the police to do about it.
Tell you the police?
Yes, we are.
Yeah, do they have some kind of measure where they do something with the cat in case of a real emergency where the cat is detrimental to the other person?
He's detrimental to me.
He's scared of me.
And I'm reacting to the fact that he's scared of me, so I'm scared being in my apartment, being with him, along with him, because he scares me, because he's scared of me, and we're reacting to each other.
And I certainly don't want to, I'm not that kind of a person.
I'm not an inhumane person, and I would never let let the cat out the back door and just let it roam around.
I want to make sure it's put to sleep.
See, how long have you been reacting like this?
forever and so I wanted Forever.
For as long as I can, and forever.
Why is it so important today then?
Well, anyway, could you have them put to sleep today?
I can't, Let.
Well, who does it?
The animal control does it.
And if they're not there today, there's nothing I can do to help you.
But Machine said call the police at 291-1111 if they're not.
Am I not yelling at me?
Well, you are yelling at me, too.
No, I'm not.
That's just about it.
I'll tell you what.
How can it be an emergency if you have this cat all this time and all of a sudden knows today it's an emergency?
How do you know how long I've had the cat?
You didn't even ask.
I did too.
I thought.
How about the cat scared of me?
Right now, I know it.
The cat is scared.
He's petrified.
And I'm not about to just let him walk out the back door.
Should I do that?
Should I just climb out the back door and let somebody kill me or have a star to death?
I thought I'm doing the most proper, humane thing to do as a plumber peak.
For peace sake, good lord, where do you think I am?
A fellow?
I'm telling you right now that somebody's got to pick that cat up from the police department.
That hell's going to break loose.
Here.
I'm telling you.
I'm telling you the police department does not pick up the...
They made me put the number down there!
Why?
Why did they put the number?
Call the police!
Why am I crying once?
You think this is fun for me?
I don't like to call the police!
No way, no how.
And the **** who's going to feel it don't even...
I'd like to put you in a tape.
What cut the colours of?
You're a dog.
You're nothing but a dog.
Well, you keep talking because it's on tape, okay?
I really don't care what you say.
What are you going to call me back and arrest me for my mind, speaking my thoughts, that I can't stand your fucking gun?
Your toilet paper.
What's the meaning of your shit?
People like you used to think.
What are you done yet?
I don't know.
Did I say enough to did you get offended?
I told that.
You can't get offended because you don't got no hood.
You just gotta understand it.
I don't even know you can do it right now.
You're curious.
Good, good, good.
I'm calling you, I don't care.
I'm telling you, you just cool up bitch and move the hits.
And he's like finger like that for me to call you.
And my poor death kid, and you don't give a finger.
You did.
You should put this week.
You give me pocket sweeps.
You should try.
I'd like to kill you myself.
Only a moment to tell me where you are.
Oh, I thought you knew already.
You gotta tell us.
Now you don't want to give me your address, huh?
I'll give my address because I'll make it better.
Yes, sir.
So that sounds good to see you.
What's your address?
Why are you going to fly a kite with a hole in it?
And see, and that's one thing I want people to know, is please don't crank 911.
Especially now, I mean, with everything that's going on, you should never do it to begin with.
But if you do decide to be clever and think you're going to wind up on the next CD, remember that there is now enhanced 911 where they get you immediately.
Yeah, there's something about uh real life and even serious times in real life that uh that can be really funny, even though probably it ought not be funny.
It is.
I mean, that's just the way it is, if you have that kind of sense of humor.
And I do.
Okay, Leland.
We've got a lot of them on here.
What, pray tell, is Laser Beam?
unidentified
This is one of the calls from a lady who, when she calls, they all know her name.
And she's complaining about her very, very, very, very, very mean neighbors.
I get some very strange people, but you know, I've learned over years, Leland, you know, a lot of talk show hosts would just flat blow a lot of people that I talk to right off the air.
They'd never get to say two words.
And I found out a long time ago that that was wrong.
Right.
It's like trying to judge a book by its cover.
And you just can't do it.
A lot of times there's really good stuff in there if you just listen.
All right, Red Caddy.
unidentified
Okay, this is a cool one.
This one took place in Poughkeepsie, New York, and it's extremely similar to Joe versus the Deer.
Actually, you know, some people think these are put-ons.
Right.
I've heard that from a number.
But I've also read a number of legitimate Associated Press and UPI stories about this.
This really did and has happened.
People think these animals are dead, and they say load them in the car for some good venison.
And about halfway home, they're not dead, and they're also not happy.
So it really does happen.
unidentified
I remember I heard a story, or actually a friend of mine, well, a friend of mine, a guy I know, they were at the beach, and they saw a scorpion laying on a rock.
And the scorpion, of course, wasn't moving.
And they thought, oh, cool, scorpion's dead.
Let's take it home.
And of course, the scorpion was simply sunning himself.
So they pick him up and they put him in a bag and they put him in the van and they're driving around.
And of course, the scorpion wakes up because it's not getting any more sun.
And he starts terrorizing everyone in the back of the van.
But of course, when you have a group of people in a van at the beach picking up scorpions, they're not in the right frame of mind anyway, usually.
Even if you have not activated service on a cellular phone, I believe that many of them will call 911.
Right.
And that's all they'll do.
unidentified
And a lot of problems with people in cell phones is that a lot of them have one-touch keypads or one-touch speed dials to go to 911.
And if you don't activate the key guard on your phone and you put it in the back of your pocket and you go to like an Arkansas Razorbacks game and you're jumping up and down, your butt will start calling 911.
Like with the Poughkeepsie call, I was able to trace it back to where it came from exactly and found the person who took the call who happened to have had a dub from the original.
But you can never really get, you know, you can never get the original.
You can only get the best you can do is ever get a dub from the original.
How does somebody contact you if they have something?
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Well, the best way to do it is if you go to the website at wacky911.com, you can scroll down to the bottom of the screen, and there it says for press information, contact Leland.
And if you click on that, it goes right to my email.
And if you've got information about good 911 stories or if you have audio from 911 stories, the best way to get in touch with me is through the website, wacky911.com.
It's been very interesting doing the whole 911 thing and getting into audio.
The next project that I'm working on is called The Wacky Hits of the Web.
We've been scouring the entire World Wide Web looking for the funniest audio on different people's sites, personal audio, radio audio, and we're putting together a new CD because no one has the time to do what I do, which is sit and look for stupid audio on the computer all day.
So we're putting out a new CD fairly soon called The Wacky Hits of the Web, and it's got some extremely funny stuff on it.
Well, you might want to look into some sound clips that we've put up over the years with a fellow who calls me called JC.
Cool.
You might want to listen to a few of those cuts.
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Well, that's what I was going to say.
If anyone out there in your audience knows of good sites that have funny audio, if you could just go to wacky911.com and click on my name at the bottom and give me the link, I would really appreciate it because it's going to be hopefully one of several volumes.
We're going to get radio stations involved.
It's going to be just a lot of fun because, I mean, hang up phone calls, answering machines.
Well, how long does it take you to put together a full CD that, you know, and then a book to go with it?
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The CDs take probably about a year to put together.
It's just very, very, very difficult to get audio clips from 911 calls.
The books take less time because I can go to legitimate news sources like newspapers and go to the search engines on their internet site and go through all the stories that have 911 in it.
Fortunately, I've made a lot of friends with dispatchers now, and they'll send me their favorite stories.
A lot of them can send me transcripts from the CAD recording, even though the tapes have been destroyed.
So I can get lots of actual transcripts.
So putting the book together is a lot easier than putting the CD together.
I think criminals are going to be a truly rich area for you as well.
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I hope so.
And that's putting in the fall of next year I should have out my new book called Stupid Criminal Tricks.
And then the year after that, I've got the 2003 911 calendar coming out, which will be a collection from the CDs and the two books.
Also working on something very actually serious, a 911 educational initiative that I'm putting together with the Metropolitan Education Department in Nashville.
We're going to take 911 awareness and proper usage to pre-K and kindergarten and develop a curriculum that will carry through to junior high school.
Hopefully we'll go nationwide.
We're looking at starting it here as a test site.
So if anyone has any information about 911 for educational purposes for kindergarten, please send me some information.
Let me know if there's any programs out there already that we can emulate or help enhance.
They can reach me again through the website wacky911.com.
Go down to the bottom of the page and click on my name.
Harrison passed away at a friend's house in Los Angeles after a battle with cancer.
Harrison provided lead guitar, sometimes energetic, sometimes moving in the Beatles' many hits, while evolving into a songwriter in his own right who would deliver some of the band's best-known tunes.
Despite his success, his career and talent were frequently eclipsed by the shadows of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, known as the quiet one, the shy one, I guess, serious one, the sad one, not a Lennon, not a McCartney, but Harrison was so much an influence on music of the Beatles.
His contribution to the success of the world's most famous group cannot be underestimated.
He was the man who, egged on by his first wife, Patty Boyd, brought Indian mysticism and meditation to the fab four.
He was the man whose rockabilly playing on lead guitar underpinned all those early Beatle hits and whose wistful lyrical style later forged the psychedelic sound of the late 60s.
His life had many contradictions.
George Harrison gone at 58.
Just seems incredible.
I don't know.
There's a lot of things lately, it seems like, that just slam us all, affect us all.
And, you know, like many of you, I am 56, soon 57.
I'm right in that exact age group where the Beatles were a gigantic influence on me.
Just a gigantic influence.
And they still are.
I guess that's the thing about music and books.
They remain.
But there's just this giant sense of loss, you know, when somebody like George Harrison passes away.
Lenin, I just, I don't know, kind of puts me in shock.
And I guess it reminds us all of our own mortality.
And so that's probably part of it.
But it's so much more than that in this case.
You know, it means so much to me.
Music all my life has meant more to me than I can possibly tell you.
Before I did talk radio, I, of course, was in music radio for all of my adult life.
All of my adult life.
And so I grew up with the Beatles, and I'm sure a lot of you did, too.
This is really sad news.
Really sad news.
He wasn't afraid of death, you know.
He lived his life that way.
He just simply wasn't afraid of it.
But a great man.
And I don't know what you say about the Beatles.
They changed everything.
Musically, they changed everything.
And music, to some degree, makes the world go round.
Without music, it wouldn't be the same world, would it?
Well, unfortunately, you've hit the other thing I don't let people do, and I will explain to you why if you'll listen.
I used to let people give out web addresses.
You know, I used to be very free about that.
And I thought, well, it's okay if people want to give a web address or something.
So I'm terribly sorry, but I can't let you do it because I got burned several times.
Unfortunately, until you thoroughly check out a web address, now you're welcome to supply it to me in email privately, and then I can check it out.
But people gave out some URLs that went to some pretty nasty websites, you know, and it got on the air, and so I just decided, as a blanket policy, I'm not going to let people give out URLs on the air.
And I hope you understand, but I don't want to lead people to some pretty terrible places on the web.
And as my guest the other night said, and as I've been telling you actually for years, I am absolutely convinced that the activity on the sun is having a great effect on our magnetic field, and that's having an effect on us.
So in other words, put another way, the sun's activity is having a profound effect on human activities.
And things are certainly quickening, and things are certainly pretty wild out there right now.
And that will continue while this sun cycle continues out of control.
A wild Carline, you're on the air.
Hello.
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Hello, Art.
Art, I've got two words that will make a lot of the cloning opponents think twice.
And the second two words that could even make Ashcroft think twice.
And the first two words, well, they're self-explanatory because I'm talking about creativity and spirituality on parallel.
And the first two words are George Harrison.
And that wouldn't convince Ashcroft, but I've got something for him, too.
Yeah, well, even the words George Harrison don't convince me.
I don't know.
Listen, I'm thinking really hard about this.
I think this cloning issue is so serious.
And I know that it would make sense to be able to bring somebody like George back to have another George Harrison or another John Lennon or another.
Oh, there are so many great minds and talents that we could imagine calling back to Earth through cloning, but no?
I feel it's wrong.
I think cloning is wrong.
I see where it can go.
I see where it will inevitably go.
I don't know that my feelings are going to stop it.
Probably nothing is going to stop it, but we are going to make a terrible, terrible mistake if we proceed.
It's never stopped us before, has it?
We built the bomb.
We used the bomb.
We have stockpiles of the bomb.
We've not blown ourselves yet off the face of the earth, but it's still possible.
And they went ahead.
And cloning might be in that category.
If cloning gets out of control, no matter how well-intentioned to bring back the George Harrisons and maybe the Kennedys and all the rest of it, not worth it.
Not worth it.
And not right.
And there's just something wrong with it.
And maybe that's my age showing, but I don't think so.
Yeah, but listening to those women laughing in the background, I know that if I was a raped victim and I heard men in the back on 911 laughing like that, I'd be even more devastated.
And when I was in the Air Force in Alexandria station, their brother Airman was hitchhiking the base, and he got raped, and it traumatized him so bad that it destroyed his life.
Again, I say, and I said when I heard it too, sometimes.
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I think we're at the time of where it's written about that there was so much wickedness in the world that men couldn't think of like the cloning issue.
Is it going to come down to the clones versus the uncloned?
Like who's more evolved?
And I'd hate to be a clone and know that they're going to come at 4 o'clock to get my leg for somebody else.