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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Open Lines - If You Were God

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unidentified		Welcome to Art Bell Somewhere in Time, tonight featuring Coast to Coast A.M. from January 11th, 2002.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		From the Desert of the Sea and the great American Southwest Levitical Good evening, good morning, good afternoon, as the case may be across all 24 time zones covered by this program.
		How do you do?
		It's Friday night, Saturday morning, and we're going to do open lines.
		So, these are the times when anything can happen now.
		Let me begin the program by saying that I was deluded understatements with emails and so forth saying, since I asked last week what you would do if you were the devil, it is my absolute obligation to ask this week what you would do if you were God.
		But and I'm going to do that.
		I'm just going to put a slight minor little twist on the question.
		So my question is going to be If you were God what would you do differently?
		That's the one you've got to answer.
		You want to try.
		If you were God, what would you do differently?
		That's going to take some thought and it should bring some interesting provocative answers.
		You were God, you know, the one.
		What would you do differently?
		All right, well, let us look at the news.
		Not so much of the war news anymore.
		Though, I guess there's some left.
		The big story is the baddest of the bad of the Taliban, what's left, are on their way to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, shackled and surrounded by Marines.
		They're going to Guantanamo.
		That's where they're going to keep them in Guantanamo.
		Now, I remember the Haitians, and they kept the Haitians in Guantanamo for a while, and then essentially sent them home.
		What I'm wondering here is, now, obviously, they're going to interrogate them, and they're going to say, where is bin Laden?
		Where is he?
		And stuff like that.
		But aside from that, what I'm wondering, and what they're not talking about at all, is where ultimately are these Taliban going to go?
		Are they going to stay forevermore at Guantanamo Bay, unlikely, right?
		What are the other choices?
		What are the other choices?
		I mean, what are we going to do with them?
		I don't have the slightest idea, and nobody is talking about that.
		So I just hope they don't end up immigrating somehow.
		And I have this horrible feeling.
		Anyway.
		It looks like Ford is going to cut, and they're sorry about it, certainly apologizing, 35,000 jobs.
		There are many who are saying the recession may be bottoming out, and others, the Fed chairman, warning it may not, you know, the worst may not be over, or it may be.
		Nobody's quite sure yet.
		This could be near the bottom, some say.
		Another story about Enron tonight.
		Oh, I tell you, this Enron thing, the fellow who made the prediction about Enron, I have this feeling he's right.
		It turns out Enron sought a big-time help from the federal government shortly before, of course, the recent bad news of Enron going.
		And there had been a lot of donations made to a lot of high places.
		Every day now, I look at the news and there's an Enron story there.
		And it just has the feel of Watergate.
		It's the way Watergate happened.
		Small story at the beginning, a bigger one, and a bigger one, and a bigger one, and a bigger one.
		Before you knew it, a president was taking off and leaving peached.
		And I'm not saying that's how big Enron is going to be or whether it's even going to be a scandal at all because I have no way of knowing.
		It's just the way they're handling this story that makes me think Israeli missile boats fired at a Palestinian naval fuel depot and a barracks as well used by the naval police in Gaza early Saturday, setting both ablaze.
		So that, of course, continues and will probably forever until Armageddon over there.
		And now, this is kind of interesting with regard to time travel.
		Here's a really interesting story.
		It looks like someone's made the calculation that for a 400-digit number, it would take something like a billion or 10 billion years for a supercomputer using conventional algorithms to factor that number.
		A quantum computer could do that in a few months.
		Now, we're comparing 10 billion years to a few months.
		And they're about to build a quantum computer.
		IBM's well on the way to a quantum, actually they've got a quantum computer.
		And I'm told, you know, I don't know that much about time travel, despite what some people think.
		But a quantum computer would very likely be the step to time travel.
		A quantum computer, in all likelihood, would be able to be in multiple dimensions at one time.
		And if that would be the case, then time travel would be either a reality or just around the corner.
		And so we're making really fast strides.
		Forget the doubling of processor speeds every 18 months or whatever it is.
		We're making strides beyond that.
		And if we should suddenly jump to a quantum computer, then time travel may be well within our grasp.
	And of course, another great all-time question is, if time travel is possible, then where are the time travelers, right?
	Well, they may well be out there.
	And that's one answer that a lot of people have a hard time contending with.
	The time travelers may be there now.
	And if there is to be time travel, they probably are there right now.
	Well, there you are.
	I thought it interesting that we appear to have a quantum computer.
	All right, well, I'm going to be rather interested to see how you answer this gigundous question.
	That was a word that a fellow used on the show yesterday that I think I may adopt.
	Gigundus question.
	If you were God, what would you do differently?
	Dare anybody take a shot at that one?
	Truly a gigundous question.
	Just one more little item here.
	This is, actually I've got a list of these, and I thought this one was particularly interesting.
	It's a medical student who wrote it.
	It says he's currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center, and today a woman called in very, very upset because her little daughter had been eating ants.
	I don't think I ever ate ants.
unidentified		Did you?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I saw my wife ate an ant.
		When we were in South Africa, we were in Africa, actually, Eastern Africa, and they have these giant...
		I could hear her screaming.
		They have these giant anthills that are like six feet tall.
		I mean, they're as big as a full-grown man.
		They're big anthills, folks.
		And the ants in these anthills are termites.
		Very small difference.
		That's right, a termite.
		Well, no difference.
		Anyway, termites build these giant things, and they are really big termites.
		Really ferocious termites.
		And as part of one of those safaris we went out on, we were invited to eat a termite.
		Now, I turned that down right away.
		I wouldn't voluntarily eat a live termite, but my wife did.
		Now, the instructions were clear, and that was that you had to get the termite in your mouth and in between your teeth and crunch the termite before the termite realized that it was on a soft tongue.
		In other words, the last thing you want to do is obviously throw a little thing with claws or whatever on your tongue.
		And my wife put it on her tongue.
		And the termite obligingly took a piece of her tongue out.
		And then she aggressively crunched him.
		But beforehand, he took with him a little piece of her tongue, and it bled for some time.
		And ever since then, and actually I've never regretted making the decision I did not to do that.
		It's an interesting invitation, but I don't know.
		I just, you know, not one of those things that I would jump right to.
		She did.
		And we're perfect matches.
		We're opposites.
		And we're perfect matches in that regard.
		But it was, I do have to admit, it was fun to watch.
unidentified		I do have to admit, it was fun to watch.
		You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
		Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11th, 2002.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Music Well, I launched into that story about Africa, and my wife, I couldn't resist, and I forgot to tell you about the rest of this anyway.
		Here he is in toxicology at the Poison Control Center, and this woman calls in all very upset because she had caught her little daughter eating ants.
		So this gentleman quickly reassures her that the ants are not harmful, not really, and there'd be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital.
		Whew!
		Right?
		So she calmed down, and then just at the very end of the conversation added, happened to mention, that she had given her daughter some ant poison to kill the ants.
		At which point she was obviously told she had better bring her daughter in right now to the emergency room, right now.
		It takes a village, and we have some strange people in this country.
		We really, really have some strange people that do things that are just completely indecipherable.
		I've got tons of these.
		Maybe I'll read you some more of them.
		Anyway, open lines.
		Friday night, Saturday morning.
		We have given you enough brain food this week with all the programs we've done.
		Boy, do we have some good ones coming up next week so that you should not have a problem commenting on anything at all.
		If you wish to tackle my question, oh, that's the only other thing I want to say.
		If you wish to tackle my question about God, then you must tackle it both in the spirit and the rule of the law of the question.
		And the rule is it must be answered Exactly as it is asked.
		If you were God, what would you do differently?
		I wonder if people are going to have a hard time answering that or an easy time.
		Now, people leapt, virtually leapt at the devil.
		They jumped.
		What a question.
		I couldn't stop it.
		I had email coming in from people who had devil answers.
		So we'll see what you do with God.
		Everybody thought, well, really ought to be fair, and I agree.
		I just put a little twist on it, just a little twist.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
		Hello, I don't believe it.
		Well, you should believe it.
		You are here.
		Where are you, please?
unidentified		I'm Michael in Las Vegas, KDWM.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Ah, the monster on 720 in Las Vegas.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, my alma mater station.
unidentified		Yes.
		Been here nine years and going, what am I doing?
		Anyway, I had an answer for you right away.
		I said, I would tell Art Bell time travel is not possible.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		However, I would tell him that alternate dimensions are possible.
		Well, then, time travel is probably going to be possible.
		I mean, our nation's best minds, sir, the best theoretical physicists in the world believe that.
		So why don't you?
		Well, that doesn't make them right.
		Well, no, I just said they believe that.
		Why don't you?
		Because all we have.
		I said that to my mom a lot when I was a kid.
unidentified		Because.
		Because.
		Well, in this case, because works, but because we have a moment.
		Now we have another moment.
		We can't get that last moment back.
		All we have is right now, and that's all there is is now.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know, that's a kind of all right, well, fine.
		But that is pedestrian thinking, sir.
		Pedestrian thinking.
		All we have is now.
unidentified		No past, no future, but now, only now.
unidentified		And now, forever.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm not so convinced.
		I think there's going to be time travel.
		I think there is time travel.
		I think there are time travelers.
		And frankly, that makes a whole lot more sense if some of our nation's greatest minds are correct.
		I have no way of knowing anything for sure, but I think it's coming.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, Lord.
		If I were a God, if...
		What I would do, right?
		If I were God, I would be one imperfect God.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, but I didn't ask that.
		I don't care.
		Would you be perfect, imperfect, upside down, inside out?
		What would you do differently?
		That's the question.
unidentified		In other words, I wouldn't be able to do nothing better than the God is what would be.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, then there you are.
		Okay, I appreciate your stab at it, but you, obviously, Sarah, are an example of exactly what I just warned against.
		If you can't answer the question, don't call.
		Well, I couldn't do anything better than God.
		I didn't say better.
unidentified		I said different.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Maybe it would be worse.
		But I want a direct, in the spirit and the letter of the law, answer to the question.
		What would you do differently if you were God?
		Well, sir, the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
		This is Bill.
		I'm calling you from Grants Pass, Oregon.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		If I were God and we were taking it from this moment forward, I would cause all people to speak a universal language.
unidentified		And I would have all people, when they approach another person, to see the most beautiful person that they've ever seen in their life, even if it was an image of themselves.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now, just the language thing by itself is pretty good, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How would the world be different if we all spoke the same language, period?
unidentified		Yeah, it would eliminate the miscommunication because we would, as we're speaking the words, we would understand them without trying to translate them in our minds.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That could only be achieved, of course, with you know what, sir, a one-world government.
unidentified		Well, that would be a, well, we're talking about God taking his people that he has created and suddenly just suddenly making them so that they're peaceful.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I don't know.
		All right, well, fine.
		If you do that, fine.
		I don't know that there wouldn't be repercussions to that, though.
		You know, kind of a world where everybody spoke the same language and was totally peaceful, and they all walk around in white togas.
		I think I saw that in a Star Trek.
		And they all walk around in white togas.
		But of course, there was a little hitch in that plan, too, you'll recall.
		there was a price to pay for the white toga life.
		Every now and then, one of these creatures that would provide...
		And so the creatures under the ground manufactured all the goods to keep the lifestyle good for the people in the white togas up on top of the world.
		But every now and then, they would grab the people in the white togas and chow down.
unidentified		Or something like that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, we'll break here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		If you were God, what would you do differently?
unidentified		In your creation, the drift back in time continues.
		With Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM.
		More Somewhere in Time coming up.
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		And know the magic of her charms.
		Cause I want girl to call my own.
		I want a dream lover so I don't have to dream alone.
		Dream lover, where are you?
		With a love for so true.
		He took a hundred pounds of weight.
		And then he said.
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art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's what he did.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So, this morning I'm giving you a chance to see what it is you would do.
unidentified		Just a hundred pounds of weight He made my life worth living Oh You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
unidentified		Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11th, 2002.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Music You know, I was thinking that guy who said that everybody in the world should instantly be made to speak the same language.
		And I thought, you know, what guarantee is?
		You just automatically think English, of course.
		Wrong, probably be French.
		This is allegedly a true story.
		A man wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America in San Francisco walked into the branch and wrote, this is a stick-up.
		S-T-I-K-K-U-P.
		Put all your money, M-U-N-Y, in the bag.
		While standing in line, waiting to give this note to the teller, he began to worry that someone might have seen him write the note and might call the police before he got up to the window.
		So he left the Bank of America, crossed the street to the Wells Fargo Bank.
		After waiting a few minutes in line, he hands this note to the Wells Fargo teller.
		She reads it.
		Surmising from his spelling that he wasn't the brightest bulb in the harbor, she told him she could not accept this stick-up note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he'd either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to the Bank of America.
		Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, okay, and left.
		They arrested him just a few moments later, waiting in line at the Bank of America.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, hi there.
unidentified		Hey, Art.
		After I tell you my idea, I'm hoping to ask you a brief question.
		What I would do is I would grant the following powers to all humans and higher animals, you know, like dogs or cats or mice birds, things like that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Total invulnerability, immortality, and the ability to fly anywhere at any speeds up to the speed of light.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Unbreakable, huh?
unidentified		Yep.
unidentified		So that you could just zoom from here to the moon with your cats right behind you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Or go farther.
		Somehow, I think there's a big hitch in this one, but I don't know.
		Spacefaring cats.
		I'll have to think about that.
		Anyway, you have a question, sir.
unidentified		Yes, about a year ago, you interviewed a gentleman, a self-made millionaire.
unidentified		I believe he made his millions from selling an invention of a type of toy, who is going to try to launch himself into low-altitude Earth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yes, yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That, sir, is coming up this spring.
unidentified		this spring because I think he said he was originally scheduled for November.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It was moved to the spring, and I am going to be there.
unidentified		Well, you know, I hope that that actually turns out to be a real thing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And I'm actually...
unidentified		Well, you know what I mean.
unidentified		Just Braggadocio.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Didn't you see his rocket?
unidentified		Well, yes, but I'm skeptical, but I want it to be true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, no, no, no.
		This man is serious.
		Now, what are the odds of his actually being able to do this?
unidentified		Well, I thought the best idea was the reviewing stand with cheering fans and dancing girls ready for his landing.
unidentified		I thought that was a nice touch.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, if you were going to do something like that, wouldn't you want, at the very least, dancing girls?
unidentified		Oh, certainly.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Well, have a good morning.
		And not only that, but we'll interview him before he launches.
		He's going to launch himself into low-earth orbit.
		And why not?
		There are many who will try and stop him, I am sure, but why not?
		I mean, if that's what you want to do and you want to build a rocket, this is America, by God.
		And you ought to be able to be allowed to do it.
		And if you blow yourself up, well, then that, my friend, is the free will given to us by the real one up there.
		Wildcard line, you are on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi.
unidentified		Hi, this is Denise.
unidentified		I'm calling from Oregon.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Denise.
unidentified		Hi, there.
		First, I'd like to say I have enjoyed your show for years.
		I have learned so much, and I'm very grateful that you're on the air.
		Well, thank you.
		Regarding the question, I would not do anything differently.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, then you can't answer the question.
unidentified		Yes, I can.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, you can't.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Because the question specifies, you must specify what you would do differently.
unidentified		But if the whole reason for God is that he's done everything perfectly, and it's up to us to say that it's not.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I want to argue this with you, ma'am.
		You're not answering the question.
		You must answer the question by stating something you would do differently.
		But the question is moot.
		Well, then, you shouldn't attempt to answer it.
unidentified		There's no question to answer because God is already perfect.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But people have free will.
unidentified		That's right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And part of that free will would be an attempt to answer this question.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And to live within even the spirit, the most remote spirit of the question, you have to try and answer it.
unidentified		Oh, but that's what drove me to call.
		The spirit.
		Because the spirit is with us, it's not with God.
		God's already perfect.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Well, I appreciate the call, but you flunk.
		You've got to answer the question straight on.
		That's it.
		You've got to answer it straight on.
		You cannot call and say, well, God is perfect, and so I won't try to answer it.
		Well, then you're not answering the question.
		I have a feeling there are plenty of people out there capable of answering this question.
		might be slightly blasphemous, I suppose, but I know you can do it.
		East of the Rockies, you're...
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Art?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		I have two things I would do were I the creator.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You see, I knew it.
unidentified		Excuse me, this is Marcia in Van Buren, Arkansas, listening to you on KYHN 1320.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Van Buren?
unidentified		Yes, KYHN is in Fort Smith.
unidentified		I'm just across the river.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, you're in Arkansas, okay.
unidentified		Yes.
		Okay.
		Anyway, were I the creator, the first thing I would do would make sure that my message to all peoples, not just earthlings, but to all peoples, would be personal enough and clear enough that everyone would understand that there was one creator.
		And I would have my laws.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		There'd be like a megaphone shouting at everybody somehow or another.
unidentified		Not quite there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It would be like God fireside chats where he...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So a clearer communication.
unidentified		Yes, the other thing would be the understanding of the human race on earth that they are by far not the only intelligent life I've created.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Thank you.
		Thank you so much.
unidentified		You're welcome.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Take care.
		Right.
		Yeah, there's a lot going on with dolphins.
		That's really interesting.
		We've talked a lot about that lately.
		Dolphins really are very...
		And it was kind of interesting the other night talking about uplifting, uplifting a creature like a dolphin to be able to speak and other human-like attributes.
		I don't know.
		It's a fascinating concept, but again, it's toying around a bit much with my taste, with Mother Nature to change the nature of it.
		But then again, maybe that's what was done to create us.
		Welcome to the Rockies.
		You're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Mr. Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, that would be.
unidentified		How are you doing tonight?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm doing fine, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I am currently roosting at a truck stop in Sparks.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, Sparks, Nevada.
unidentified		Yeah, biggest little town up here.
unidentified		I like it up here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yes, sir.
unidentified		I got to tell you, listeners, if they haven't cut through your neck of the woods yet, they're missing out big time.
		It's beautiful.
		I finally figured out what the hell the kingdom of nine was.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, good.
unidentified		It's absolutely beautiful to drive from Vegas to Reno at night.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It absolutely is.
		It's one of the most spectacular things you can do, and it's like, to me, one of the wonders of the world.
		The desert is an amazing place.
unidentified		Absolutely.
		I purposely stopped right there by Scotty Junction just so I could be totally alone and watch a few shooting stars.
		I've got a comment about the Yucca Mountain debacle you guys are going to be having here pretty soon.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, the pository.
unidentified		Yeah, I hear a lot about your local government up here, your senators and all that are going to try and fight it.
		But what's to say it won't go the way of Groom Lake and Area 51, where they pretty much won't have much to say about it in the end, probably.
		I mean, what's to keep those people from doing it without our knowledge?
		I mean, without giving people in Nevada a chance to speak about it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that is what they're doing.
		I mean, they have given us a chance to speak about it.
		They just don't care about what we say.
unidentified		Yeah, I mean, I thoroughly believe that in the long run, no one's going to have a say about it.
unidentified		You know, even if Bush decided to not go against it, I don't think no one's going to have a choice in the matter because it seems to me that they're going to be pretty hell-bent on doing it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know.
		You know what we need real quick?
		We need a really big earthquake right at about Yockey Mountain.
unidentified		I don't know.
unidentified		I would hate to see that area get shook too bad.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, no, no, it'd be fine.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Just something that would open up the ground and a few eyes.
unidentified		But to answer your question, I think your last call kind of stole my thunder, but I was going to say I would make damn sure everybody knew there's only one religion.
unidentified		I think that would have maybe eliminated a lot of wars in the world.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Just out of curiosity, which one would that be?
unidentified		You know, I don't know.
		I hadn't thought that far ahead she had.
		I think if I were God, I would make sure there was only one.
		And, you know, maybe in the long run, that would have saved us a lot of grief throughout history because a lot of people have died in the name of religion.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And various gods.
		Absolutely.
		All right.
		Thank you very much.
		And various gods.
		Oh, yes.
		People always kill in their God's name.
		You can't get to something as serious as killing without invoking God.
		Whatever God.
		God's word in this hand and a gun in this hand.
		That's how it's done.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Good evening, Art.
unidentified		It's been a long time waiting to get a hold of you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you, pray tell?
unidentified		I am in Avon Lake, Ohio.
unidentified		My name is Bernie.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, Bernie.
unidentified		Being that God would do something different, what would I do differently?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
unidentified		I would leave everybody to their own devices around the world and let them go where they really deserve to go.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but that's happening now.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's not different.
unidentified		No, But being God, I intervene wherever I can to help try to keep everybody from going where they deserve to go.
unidentified		So if I would do something differently, everybody would really be in bad shape.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I see.
		Well, yeah, I was thinking about that one earlier.
		In other words, you finally pass away and you arrive at the Purley Gates, and oh, to your surprise, you know what you've done in your life, and you get up there and ask for forgiveness, and they say, you know, forgiveness?
		No, forgiveness.
		What a shock.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Yeah, hi.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		Just want to talk to Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, there's a good chance that's actually occurring right now.
unidentified		Hello?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		Are you hearing me?
		There's a good chance that's actually occurring right now.
unidentified		Possibly.
		Yeah.
		There's an old saying that, you know, there is only one God, but the wise call up by many names.
		So be it, you know, Buddha, God, Jehovah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, no, I don't know about that.
		People seem to feel they're different characters.
		A lot of them are different characters.
		Entirely.
unidentified		Yeah, but if you really dive into the different religions.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And anyway, so that is not the question.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The question is, if you were, if you prefer any one of these gods, what would you do differently?
unidentified		What would I do differently?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Stop technology.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, you would stop technology.
		Exactly.
		In other words, all technological things would just suddenly vanish.
unidentified		Well, if you've noticed, over the last 60 years of heavy industry, we've more or less destroyed this planet.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know, there would be mass suicides.
		People would be jumping off of cliffs because there wouldn't be any skyscrapers, but they find cliffs, they jump off those, and people wouldn't be able to take it without technology.
		But I suppose then the ones that would be left would be pleasing to you.
unidentified		Well, eradicate technology before it happens.
		You would want?
		Not letting technology evolve the way it has.
		Instead of basically raping the earth, create certain aspects of energy to be found earlier than what they have been.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's interesting, but the trouble is, you see, that would take technology.
		And you took that away.
		Of course, I suppose there could be an entirely different kind of technology, and we've certainly speculated about that.
		If we hadn't followed the present linear scientific course that we have, that perhaps the technology of the ancients would have developed.
		But then again, you could also say, well, the ancients, if they were so hot and they had such great technology, what the hell happened to them?
		They're gone.
		Post.
		History.
		We're here.
		They're not.
		I don't know.
		East of the Rockies, you are on the air.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Hey, Arn.
unidentified		It's such a pleasure to get through to you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Glad you're through.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm in St. Augustine, Florida.
		My name's Kathy.
		Hi, Kathy.
		And I tell you, I do want to give a legitimate answer to your question.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
unidentified		I will say I don't know that I believe these days in a God, but I was raised.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's not necessary to answer the question.
unidentified		Well, okay.
		I do fear that the Judeo-Christian God may be real.
		And I'd like to say that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's what they want you to do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They want you to fear.
unidentified		Well, there you go.
		I think that if I were he, I would not have given people free will and then punished them for using it in certain ways.
		That's what I would say.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That is a very good point.
unidentified		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to have to think about that a little bit, but it's actually a pretty good point.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You give somebody free will, it's a gift, and then you punish them when they use it.
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		I think about that a lot.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's a really hard concept.
		The whole concept of free will and God and the whole thing, it's really hard.
		But anyway, that's a good answer.
unidentified		Well, thanks for taking my call.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much for making it.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		How are you doing, Arnie?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm doing okay.
unidentified		I would have made the seeds and avocados smaller.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's a pretty small thing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Why would you have...
unidentified		Oh, God.
unidentified		They asked him if he would.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Make the seeds smaller?
unidentified		Yeah, you said he may have made the seeds smaller.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, then this isn't original then.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You had to steal this from a movie.
unidentified		That's a small joke.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, oh, I see.
		Is there anything you really would do, sir?
		As God?
		Differently?
unidentified		You ought to put a big sign on the rock of Gibraltar, saying I created everything.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He is signed God, all right?
		So an inscription on the rock of Gibraltar.
		That might have been all right.
		Or some other totally gigundous formation of some sort that would be around for literally all time for mankind, see forever.
		Sort of a final instruction for mankind.
		That's good.
		That's very good.
		First time caller line, you are on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello, Art.
		Yes.
		Yes, this is Llewella, and I'm listening to you on K-N-Y-E 95.1 and for up.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		How are you doing?
		Thank you.
unidentified		And if I were God, I would eliminate hate, greed, envy, jealousy, and hunger.
unidentified		Well, but then what would you be left with?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I think love in the world where there wouldn't be uh murders and and uh killings and wouldn't you be running the risk though you know, bad as many of those things are uh of making it boring, Well, that would be a possibility.
unidentified		but I I think it would be better.
		Um I don't know.
		I think we just got rid of all those things that maybe the world would be a lot better place.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And yet those things must be here for a reason.
unidentified		I just would get tired of ketchup soup.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's an inside joke here in Berlin.
		All right.
		Thank you, dear.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Take care.
		A listener to 95.1 KMYE here in Perum.
		Ketchup Soup.
		This is a public service announcement.
		I don't mean to make fun of it in any way, but we do run it on KMYE.
		And it's about ketchup soup.
		And, you know, it's about hunger.
		And the way they do it is somewhat humorous.
		Ketchup soup, I think it says.
unidentified		If kids get hungry enough, they'll eat anything.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Ketchup soup.
		Donald Reagan said ketchup was a food, and actually, it really is.
		But ketchup soup every day and for how long.
		I'm Art Bell.
unidentified		This is Premier Networks.
		That was Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM on this Somewhere in Time.
		We said we'd try to go.
		Love him, but you squeeze him each other when I'm alone all by myself.
		You're out with someone else loving, touching, sweetheart.
		The End Some velvet morning when I drink.
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		gate and maybe tell you about Pharaoh and how she keeps me live and how Premier Network presents Art Bell somewhere in time tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11th, 2002.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This is a gigundously good song.
		No question about it.
		By the way, this coming week we're going to have Lee Hazelwood's son on the program.
		I'm serious, Lee Hazelwood's son.
		This coming week, that's going to be very, very interesting.
		All right, stay right where you are.
		Remember now, the question is, if you were God, what would you do differently?
		If you were God, what would you do differently?
unidentified		The End You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
unidentified		Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11th, 2002.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Once again, away we go.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
		Hockey.
unidentified		Hello again, sir.
		I apologize for being on the cell phone.
		I'm in the courtyard of one of those huge monstrous cement buildings, so I'm sure I probably sound awful on this.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, you sound a little godlike.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Like you're coming through a dimension, but that's all right.
unidentified		That's rather interesting.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm in Florida listening to you on 970 WSLA.
unidentified		Uh-huh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, very good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Proceed.
unidentified		Okay, the God question.
unidentified		I believe that instead of universal language, we should have universal background music.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Universal background music?
unidentified		That way you wouldn't even need the language.
		You could tell just by the music that's playing if the person you were talking to had good intentions, evil intentions, if they were your friend, if they were an enemy.
		You know, you wouldn't even need the music.
		Unless it'd just be so much more pleasant if we had constant music coming around, you know, to filter through the air.
		It would make things so much more interesting.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sort of a heavenly music, actually.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, okay, what kind of music would you impose upon the people?
unidentified		Probably instrumental.
unidentified		Or maybe, of course, if people could learn to sort of Manifest their psychological abilities, we could perhaps create it ourselves.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Don't you think, though, that well-intentioned as that idea might be, there would be people who would hate it.
unidentified		They would hold their ears and they would go, God, stop.
unidentified		Well, anybody who really hates music probably isn't a very good person to begin with.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Why not?
		But most people like music, but I mean, it is a matter of taste.
		There's certain pieces of music that, you know, there was a song called The Lion Sleeps Tonight, and the world loved that.
unidentified		That's true.
unidentified		I hated that record.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I hated that record.
unidentified		And most of the stuff that they have on the radio now is complete garbage.
		I like the stuff you play so much better.
		I wish we got the perform channel here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you so very much.
		Yes, I agree with that.
		Maybe a sign of age, but even when it came out, I hated The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
		It's just something that absolutely is like chalk, you know, like chalk on a board or fingernails going down a blackboard to me.
		That's what it's like.
		There are a couple other songs like that.
		So you will never hear The Lion Sleeps Tonight on KNYE.
		Not a chance in hell.
		Then there's one other.
		I'm trying to remember what they are.
		There's another one that I really, really, really dislike.
		I intentionally block it from my memory, I'm sure.
		Can you imagine that, though?
		A sort of muzak everywhere, impossible to get away from.
		It wouldn't matter.
		She's shouting at me.
		What is it?
		What is it?
		Oh, yeah.
		That's the other one.
		God save the world from the Duke of Earl.
		You remember that?
		Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl.
		Oh, my God.
		But it's all a matter of taste.
		I mean, those were big hits, so obviously a lot of you out there must love those songs.
		But when I hear them, it's like knives being placed into my back, and believe me, I know what that's like.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
		Hello?
unidentified		Did you say wild card?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, that would be you.
unidentified		Oh, the wild card off on your voice for some reason.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, things happen, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Welcome.
unidentified		Yeah, thanks.
unidentified		6.40 a.m. here in L.A., California.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, FI.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		Yeah.
		And I was just going to say that, well, if I were to make a little decision there on the guide point, it would be all us animals on the earth or anywhere else in the universe become vegetarians.
		That way, the dog wouldn't chase the cat, the cat wouldn't chase the mouse, would live in peace, pretty much.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All things would be vegetarians.
unidentified		That's right, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you a vegetarian?
unidentified		No, I tried it.
		He scared me.
		You know why?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Why?
unidentified		Because it took the animal instinct out of me, and I could feel that I wasn't.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You were becoming a wimp.
unidentified		Exactly, yeah.
		I felt like...
		You talked about it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, absolutely.
		I think you're probably right.
		I mean, it would do that.
		It would take the oomph out of you.
unidentified		Right.
unidentified		We would be a fighting force of nothing if we were.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But don't you think that we're not really intended to be all wimp-like?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And because that's why we eat meat.
unidentified		Yeah, because when I stopped eating meat for a while, I felt that if someone were to attack me, I wouldn't be able to protect myself.
		It was really weird.
		There's an animal instinct into us, a bloodthirst or something.
		When we eat meat, it subconsciously programs us to be violent.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're damn right.
		Give me meat.
		Give me combat.
		Give me killing.
		Let's break stuff.
unidentified		Yeah, it's nasty and horrible when you think about it, but it's subconscious and instinctive in our existence.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's burgers that made America great, sir.
unidentified		That's right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		All right.
		I appreciate your call.
unidentified		Thank you.
		Okay, fair enough.
		Right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We are a war warlike people.
		We are a testosterone-filled group of walking, angry people, and all of that can be attributed to meat, that, and more.
		But that's what made us great, by God.
		Oh, yeah, he was the guy.
		Right?
		East of the Rockies, you are on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Thank you for taking my call.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're very welcome.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you for making it.
unidentified		I would make people have magic powers, you know, kind of like I dream of genie or, you know, bewitched or something like that, you know.
		But they can only do good with it, though.
		If they were caught doing something bad, then it would be taken away from them.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Then the power would be revoked, huh?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You don't honestly think that's, well, of course, you'd be God, so you could absolutely have it that way, but nothing but good deeds going on.
unidentified		Mm-hmm.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wonder what kind of world that would be?
unidentified		Hmm.
		I don't know.
		That's kind of interesting.
		But you couldn't be more powerful than God, though.
		God would have, you know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, you'd have to have powers with a small P. Yeah.
		Thank you very much.
		But you could only do good.
		I doubt that's the way it would be.
		I rather doubt that's the way it would be.
		If we all had the powers of genie, you know darn well the kinds of things that we'd use them for.
		Right, guys?
		The imagination knows no limits when you consider the possibilities.
		Little wrinkle of the nose.
		And she's yours.
		Whatever.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hey, Art.
unidentified		This is Abe from Salt Lake City, listening on 570K NRS.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		Yeah, well, you know, if I was God, and it's funny, I had to answer this question because I was talking to my friend about it, and I've always thought it'd be a great thing if I was my own creator of my world and I was God, that I would create as a plague for those that are unrepentant and the cities that don't seem to want to keep my commandments.
		I would create a plague of giant spiders.
		I hate them too, so I think it would be the perfect thing to just creep somebody out so much that, you know, about the size of a pit bull.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Spiders the size of a pit bull, and they would descend on an entire city that had misbehaved.
unidentified		That's right.
unidentified		And, you know, they'd make a really awful hiss like a and just scared the hell out of you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They'd probably gnash their teeth like that commercial I have about grinding, you know.
unidentified		Yeah, you know, and I think, you know, you put that once in humanity, then, you know, they'd write about it and they'd say, you know, listen to what, you know, God's saying to you, because if you're not.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You are absolutely right, sir.
		I mean, it wouldn't take but once.
		Look what happened to Salt Lake City.
		Do you want this to happen to you?
unidentified		That's right.
unidentified		Beware the spiders.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
		All right, sir.
		I appreciate your call.
		Thank you.
		A plague of pit bull-sized spiders.
		That probably would do it.
		Boy, when you saw those babies coming, the horizon turning black.
		The gnashing of teeth.
		The hunger of those who are about to do jobs, God's job on you and your city.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
		Hello?
unidentified		Yes, hello, Mr. Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How are you?
unidentified		Pretty good.
unidentified		I just wanted to answer the, if I was God.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, good.
		Turn your question, your question.
		Your radio down, please.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And actually raise the volume of your question or your answer.
unidentified		Okay.
		Well, if I was God, I would make a planet for each different race.
		And then I would have one planet for all races.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So now would these planets be separate but equal?
unidentified		Yes, separate but equal on the same axis as the planet Earth is currently.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Each planet would have rainforests and deserts and oceans and all the benefits that we seem to have.
unidentified		Yeah, each planet would be with the same land configuration, and we would be able to travel between these planets, one government per planet.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But then if you had the travel between the planets, you said for each race, right?
unidentified		Right, right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Pretty soon, it would be just like it is here because the rockets would go back and forth and you'd have mixed people again.
unidentified		Well, that's why I would add an additional planet for all races, so people that want to The ones that mix would go to the mixed planet.
unidentified		Exactly.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And the others would stay on the segregated, separate but equal planets.
unidentified		Exactly.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hell of a plan.
		Hell of a plan.
		I appreciate your call, sir.
		I guess that would translate to the way he thinks about things generally in life, wouldn't you?
		That everybody ought to be separate.
		And yet, actually, America, you know, for all its faults, is the best place to be by a country mile in the world.
		We are the best country, period.
		Do a little world travel, and you'll very quickly come to that conclusion.
		People have been out long enough, they come back and they kiss the ground.
		They're doing that for a good reason.
		It's because they've seen something else.
		A lot of people that lived here in the United States don't know what it's like elsewhere.
		And yet, here we are all mixed up.
		That formula has been the one that's worked.
		Yes, there's been strife between the races, but the fact of the matter is it works best when they're all mixed together.
		And the proof of that is right here.
		And if you doubt that, travel a little bit.
		So I don't know.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Cheerio.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
		Hello.
		If I was God, I would make skunk apes not smell so bad.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Why, that's all that prevents you from trying to get next to a skunk ape?
unidentified		We have a lot of them down here in Florida.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're in Florida.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Did you see the photographs I had of the skunk apes?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They were incredible.
unidentified		No, but I heard the guy last night, and he was fantastic.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yes.
unidentified		But we've got them on Buckingham Road down here by Lehigh Acres.
		Really?
		And, you know, it seems like they're migratory, though.
		Through the winter, you don't see them.
		But come like Mayor May.
		How many of these things have you seen?
		Three.
		But they're always together.
		It's like a family.
		And they actually talk.
		I mean, they'd be out in the cow pasture.
		Because out there, the zoning laws, you've got to have at least five acres.
		And they actually have like a language.
		I mean, the thing Sounded like it was saying, you'll laugh at it, but it sounded like it was saying loop, a lobby lard.
		A lobby lard.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I love you, Lord.
unidentified		No, a lobby lard.
		Loop, a lobby lard.
		The mother was talking to the baby one day out in the cow pasture.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, and you think the...
unidentified		Gabe, my dog dropped dead of a heart attack because of them.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Your dog had a heart attack?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The smell was that bad.
unidentified		Yeah, no.
		I mean, it scared him, you know, those things being around.
		But everybody out there knows they're out there and nobody bothers them.
		I mean, they're loud.
		3.30 in the morning out there, they would wake everybody up because they're – No, no, no.
		That is a skunk ape.
		That is what they sound like.
		The other one is a Bigfoot, but that is a skunk ape.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's an authentic recording.
unidentified		That's exactly how they sounded out there at night, every night, 3.30 in the morning.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And you're not afraid of them.
unidentified		Oh, yeah, I moved back into town.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, you did?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Because of the skunk ape?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
unidentified		This guy across the street, he packed up overnight and left.
		I mean, he was gone.
		You know, I'm sure if people are listening, you know, I wish they'd call in and let you know because, I mean, everybody out there is seeing.
		And, like, one night I called the police about it, and they just laughed at me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They did?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Your life could be in danger, and they chuckled at you?
unidentified		Yeah, because I was pulling in.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, how about your dog having a heart attack?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They can't laugh that off.
unidentified		I know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Maybe they could.
unidentified		I guess so.
		But, I mean, he was a healthy, you know, thoroughbred dog.
		I mean, he was a full-blooded boxer, and it just broke my heart because he was a $750 dog, you know, and he was used by the military police.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's not the part of it that's supposed to break your heart, though.
unidentified		No.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Actual cost.
unidentified		No.
		But, I mean, what for him to get scared, because, like I said, he worked as a military police dog.
		And for him to just drop dead, you know, from fear.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Then you can imagine, only imagine how horrible it must have been.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So they give him real serious training.
unidentified		But they do attack cats out there.
		My cats would come home with their throats ripped open.
		And I know that's what it was.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, how does a cat come home with its throat ripped open, just out of curiosity?
unidentified		Sniper did.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I beg your pardon?
unidentified		Sniper, my cat, he did.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know, but how did he make it home with his throat ripped open?
unidentified		It was ripped open.
		And I mean, I put the white tape around him and that.
		Then he went back out and then he didn't come home.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You taped him up?
unidentified		Uh-huh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Well, listen, one more question.
		Why would you name your cat Sniper?
unidentified		Because he was one of those little black and white cats where he had the black over his eyes on a white face.
		And when I first got him, he was in a drop-off at a mall, and he was down in the ferns, scared of people, peeking out, and he just looked like a sniper sitting in there looking at me.
		So I snagged him up and took him home.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's how it happens.
		All right, thank you.
		Well, I'm not sure that when your throat gets ripped out, the appropriate remedy is to grab some duct tape.
		You know, it probably isn't going to work, and that probably isn't why Sniper came, didn't come home again.
		Just a guess.
		West to the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		My name is Art.
		I'm calling from Livermore.
		Yes.
		If I was God, I would correct the one mistake I made.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And that was?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, so even though we may have once had that ability, you'd see to it that it was strong and present and always working.
unidentified		Always working.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And we would all know what each other thought at any given time.
unidentified		We would definitely know why our chaot would not come to us.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		That would be magic, wouldn't it?
		I'm Art Bell.
unidentified		The trip back in time continues with Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM.
		More somewhere in time coming up.
		Henry's a maid of his latest fleet.
		He called him talk, and I heard him say that she had his fucking hair, the prettiest green eyes anywhere.
		Henry's a maid of his latest fleet.
		Though I smiled and tears inside were burning, I wished him luck and then he said goodbye.
		Bye.
		He was gone, but still his words kept returning.
		Music Listen to me in the middle of the dry spot.
		Jimmy Roger, I'm a little draw up high.
		Mother's dancing, baby, on her shoulder.
		On a set night, my last days in the sky One day, ten, and one day, I'm moving And Everything always wanted more.
		Feeling longing for like fellows, I need more time.
		I fell and I told the town.
		A new religion that'll bring us to your knees.
		Black velvet is a piece.
		Black velvet is a piece.
		I remember the music was like a heap wave.
		White lightning round the ride and wild.
		Mama's babies in the heart of every schoolbook.
		Love and tender.
		You're listening to Art Bell somewhere in time.
		Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11th, 2002.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And I see that Fast Blasters are contributing to this question as well.
		And Robert Huntsville, Utah says, I do this different.
		Make one more commandment.
		Thou shalt have no other governments before me.
unidentified		Thou shalt have no other governments before me.
unidentified		Now, we take you back to the past on Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Art Bell Somewhere in Time A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all the cash from the cash drawer.
		After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that he wanted on the counter on the shelf, and so told the cashier to put that in the bag as well.
		Cashier refused and said, I don't believe you're over 21.
		Robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give him the booze because he said he didn't believe them.
		So at this point, the robber pulls out his driver's license, gives it to the clerk.
		The clerk looks it over and agrees the man is, in fact, over 21, gives him the scotch.
		Robber ran away with the loot.
		Cashier promptly, of course, called the police, gave him the name and address of the robber, and he was arrested about two hours later.
		Or this.
		A pair of Michigan Robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers.
		The first one shouted, Nobody move!
		When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.
		First time caller line, you are on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
		Hi there, Art.
		How are you doing?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm all right, sir.
unidentified		Boy, I can see why most criminals are not terribly educated.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know, I guess you could be so nervous and so dumb, and a gun in your hand, and you're screaming, nobody moving, your partner moves, and you have just issued the command, so you shoot the poor.
unidentified		Boy.
		Anyway, the guy you don't need is your partner.
		Yeah, that's right.
		Well, I'll tell you, after hearing some of the calls tonight and your question, I can see why we're not at the divine steering wheel.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's actually, you put your finger on the overall point of the question in the first place, but it continues nevertheless, and I'll bet you have an answer.
unidentified		Well, I think there's two things I would do if I were in that seat.
		The first thing is I would give mankind an absolute 100% knowledge that there is a God.
		As much as their heart's beating in their chest, you would know there is a God.
		The second thing I would do is give all of mankind 100% empathy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		whatever they did do someone else they felt and how could you be mean or cruel or go to war kill if you felt how you made You feel the emotions of everybody that you have ever, you know, done a bad deed to, and that's going to be a heavy trip.
unidentified		Maybe it's a late in-life lesson or our beginning lesson.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What I've always been curious about is why are only a very select few who have NDEs given this incredible knowledge while the rest of us are left to wonder if it is really so?
		I appreciate your call.
		Thank you very much.
		Having an NDE seems like an unfair amount of information for that person to absolutely have.
		Now, of course, we have them on the program.
		They tell us all about it here.
		But there's always going to be a shred of doubt, right?
		No matter how many stories you hear, there's always going to be a scintilla of doubt for many.
		And that seems so unfair that only a few would have that absolute experience.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
unidentified		I guess I'm God, huh?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, for the moment.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		Well, I think, all right, first off, I'm omniscient.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, yeah, of course.
unidentified		So I know everything in advance.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		And that would make me think, what was I thinking at the time that I cast Satan out of heaven and onto the earth where my children are, in which all the harm and hell would come to them.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Actually, being God and knowing everything that is going to happen, right?
		You said it yourself.
		Wouldn't that be kind of a feedback loop from which one would only emerge doubting that one is God?
		I mean, if you know everything that's going to happen, and you can't change anything essentially, because you're going to do it, are you really God?
		Or are you just on somebody's puppet string?
unidentified		Boy, that's a good question.
		That's a good question.
		Well, I was just going to say that since we have all these other planets out there, and I know that, why wouldn't I have sent Satan to those places where there's no life, where nobody would have suffered, instead of here, where all this suffering would come from?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, because we are at play.
		You see, in the field of dreams down here, we are, the souls, are what is in play.
		We are the prize.
		I mean, that is what I'm told.
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		Seemed a little bit unfair, though.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, there's a whole lot of stuff about life that just flat isn't fair.
unidentified		Yeah, that's true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's the way life is.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I appreciate your call.
unidentified		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, take care.
		East of the Rockies, you are on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		Good morning, and thank you for paying for my call.
unidentified		This is Jim in Jacksonville, Florida, W-O-K-V.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		First thing I would have done was to put the apples on the tree of knowledge of good and evil out of reach.
unidentified		And then now I would make everyone willingly accept responsibility for their own actions.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Eve would have scurried up the tree and knocked him down anyway.
unidentified		Well, did you ever try to climb a tree without any clothes on?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Why, no, it's a bitch.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But she'd have gone up there anyway, and she hadn't minded to have Adam take a bite.
unidentified		And then I would make a little more clear the reason for our existence.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That would be nice.
		That really would be nice.
		Yes, very good point, sir.
		There would be some sort of repository of knowledge about why we are here.
		That does seem to be the greatest mystery of them all, doesn't it?
		Some answer to that question.
		Now, maybe such questions lie beneath the Sphinx in Egypt.
		Who knows?
		Wouldn't it be nice, though, to essentially really understand why we are here?
		What is our purpose?
		You know, are we Mr. Sitchin's gold miners grown up?
		Sort of.
		Or what?
		West of the Rockies, you are on the air.
		Hello.
		That button.
		West of the Rockies, now you're on the air.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Hey, this is Fritz up in Alaska.
unidentified		I'm listening to you on 650K and I. Well, hi there, Fritz.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you in Anchorage?
unidentified		No, I'm down here in Anchor Point.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Anchor Point, Alaska.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		You were asking about free will earlier.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, in a way.
unidentified		Since I have free will, I can play cards in the middle of the freeway, but I'm going to suffer the consequences.
		I can't blame that on God.
		And God wants us to choose Him willingly.
		If we don't, we suffer the consequences.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The question, however.
unidentified		What would I Do if I was God?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That is the question.
unidentified		What would you do?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no, no.
		Do differently.
		Do differently.
unidentified		I would speed up the whole process so we can get this fiasco we call life over with.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		By that, do you mean you would have us die younger with better corpses, or you would simply shorten the life of the world altogether?
unidentified		Shorten the life of the world altogether.
unidentified		I'd go through the same routine, just do it a whole lot faster.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Very good.
		So bring it on.
		The end.
		You ever wonder about that?
		Would you want to be around for the end of the world or not?
		Would it be something that you would be interested in observing in your lifetime?
		This is really actually a very hard question.
		Would you like to see the end of the world?
		And I'm not saying bring it on.
		I'm just saying that if the world is going to end, would you like to see it in your lifetime?
		Most are going to say, no, of course not.
		I have children.
		But I wonder how many people would say, yes.
		You know, if it's going to happen, it would sure be interesting to see.
		Hear those hoofprints in the middle of the night and hear that horn blowing?
		Yes, sir, Riser.
		Bring it on.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified		Yes.
		Hi, Art.
		This is Tommy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello, Tommy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What part of the world are you in?
unidentified		I am in Roanoke, Virginia, traveling on the road.
		Okay.
		I've been kind of discouraged by some of the answers I've been hearing tonight.
		I've heard people start to touch on some things.
		I'm like, oh, they're going somewhere.
		And then, like the lady earlier, I thought she was going to go with the seven deadly sins.
		And then she just kind of named like four of them and then just went away from it.
		I see.
		But I guess the one thing, my background is I'm a devout Baptist and I have been since the fourth grade when I became a Christian.
		But I guess I just wanted to entertain your question here.
		And if I were God, what I would want to do is I would want us to have the ability to use our brains to our full capacity from birth.
		I feel like right now, I mean, there are some people that have tapped into it, and I've heard some talk about it many times.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I've been reading tonight about some people that obviously are not using even a small portion of their brains.
unidentified		Yes, and I've been hearing that.
		But it just seems like almost right now, it's like, since technology is so great, it seems like right now we're almost just like a hard drive with some emotions and a conscience, and then we can move around with that.
		It would just be nice, and I think that some of the questions would be cleared up for everybody as far as the existence of God and what they believe, if we had that stronger intelligence, that enlightened experience, I guess, if we could use what's consider what you said earlier for a second with regard to the seven deadly sins that you criticized Lady Olmey for naming four of.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		If all of the seven deadly sins were gone, then nothing would be at play in here.
		And I mean by that, the world.
		Nothing would be at play.
		If all the deadly sins were gone, you know, everything would be settled.
		There would be no dispute between God and the lower powers and all the rest of that.
unidentified		It'd be all over.
		Yeah, I agree.
		But then where does Satan come into play then?
		Does he still reside in heaven?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, he's out of work.
		You know, he's the victim of the recession.
		I mean, he's gone.
		I appreciate the call, but I mean, you think about that.
		Everybody wants all the deadly sins gone.
		That's part of the free will that allows all these souls to be in play, right?
		And that's the whole game, isn't it?
		The souls in play.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Yes, sir.
		How are you doing?
		This is Mike in St. Pete, Florida.
		Yes.
		970 WFLA.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		Actually, I wanted to answer the God question tonight.
		I think that if I was God, probably every five years or so, I'd just show up and perform a miracle.
		It seemed all the cool miracles happened a long time ago.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know, I've been thinking a lot about that, and there was a day when performing your average miracle would have a great effect.
		I mean, people would go, oh, they'd fall to the ground, you know, because they would realize they are seeing something totally incredible.
		Now, today, you know, in 2002, it's hard to imagine what somebody could do that would not be simply and immediately disregarded by Phil Class and all his friends as total baloney, you know, and a trick.
unidentified		Yep, exactly.
		It leaves doubt.
		You know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So in these days, it would have to be something really good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, salt lake gone to spiders, whatever.
unidentified		Come down, pot the water.
unidentified		Every five years, show up in a different spot in the world.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but see, I've been to theme parks where they part water.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I've seen that.
unidentified		True.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I appreciate your call, sir.
		It would be hard, as God, to do something that would be so absolutely irrefutable from a miraculous point of view.
		Totally irrefutable.
		Everybody would say, oh, it's a trick.
		An image in the sky, oh, it's modern laser technology, and they've tricked us.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hi.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, turn your radio off, please.
unidentified		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's the first thing you got to do.
		Okay.
		Where are you?
unidentified		San Antonio.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		San Antonio.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's where I went to basic training.
unidentified		Really?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they terrorized me there.
unidentified		Brings a lot of people down here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, it does.
unidentified		And who's this?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Who would you think?
unidentified		Oh, this is Art Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Dingo.
unidentified		I'm so flattered.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'm happy that you're happy, but I'm the only possibility when I answer.
unidentified		It's just hard to believe.
		Love your show.
		Been listening for years.
		Had to rearrange my life so I could listen.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's a lot.
unidentified		It's worth it.
unidentified		If I were God, I would see to it that everyone was capable of logical thinking.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now, that's pretty doggone good.
		In fact, I may like that the best yet.
		Not beyond, but just simple, logical thinking.
		That would make it a better world, wouldn't it?
unidentified		I think so.
		It's so hard to talk to people who you see going out on tangents and you can't hurt their feelings telling them that they're crazy.
		Yeah, or narrow-minded or bigoted or whatever.
		Tunnel vision or whatever.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So a world full of Spocks, basically.
unidentified		Right.
unidentified		Wouldn't that be great?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, it would.
		The only thing I would say is that unlike Spock, of course, there are many who say that Spock had a good human part of emotion and so forth, but you would have to leave that emotion in place as well.
		The trouble is, emotion gets in the way of logic.
		So if you were to impart logic to all, you would almost have to extract emotion, wouldn't you?
unidentified		I wouldn't want it to do that because I think you can think logically and still decide to do the emotional thing, can't you?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No.
unidentified		No?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A logical decision is a logical decision bereft of any emotion whatsoever.
unidentified		Oh, that's not so good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Damn the devil.
unidentified		Well, what if they were capable of, but wouldn't have to?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, there are people capable of thinking logical, but as I read you these stories this morning, obviously many of them don't.
		I appreciate the call, ma'am.
		Interesting.
		It would be a better world if everybody was capable of thinking logically.
		I guess we wouldn't have to make it bereft of emotion, but to be pure, it certainly would have to be.
		Now, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, yet another example.
		The Ann Arbor News, the crime column in the Ann Arbor News, reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 12.50 a.m.
		Flashed a gun and demanded cash.
		The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order.
		So the man ordered onion rings.
		The clerk said you can't have them for breakfast.
		The man, frustrated, walked away.
unidentified		The man, frustrated, walked away.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
		Hi, Art.
		This is Troy in Oregon.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, Troy.
unidentified		Hey, W-R-O.
		Yes.
		Take care of you, and it's just wonderful.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's the way to do it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Give these affiliates credit.
unidentified		Well, boy, you bet.
		Listen, I have my granddaughter here staying up who is 12.
		She's sleeping beside me.
		Her answer was she would like to see everybody's questions about the universe answered.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That we would have universal knowledge, right?
unidentified		Yes.
		But now, I was wondering if you could do me a favor, huge favor and talk to her.
		She saw UFO on her way to school.
		She walks in the dark, and she's so scared to death now.
		She's 12 years old, and she's sleeping beside me tonight.
		And I wondered if she could just tell you a little bit about it, or if you could just talk to her.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But you just said she's asleep.
unidentified		No, no, she's not.
unidentified		She's awake.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		She is?
unidentified		Yes, right here.
unidentified		I'll give her to you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, give her to me.
unidentified		Hello?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, you are awake, aren't you?
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And you saw a UFO?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		On the way to school?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And what did you do?
unidentified		Well, I was standing there and I was wondering, I was just like looking at the scene.
unidentified		I'm like, oh my God, I can't believe I'm seeing this.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But you did, so what did you do?
unidentified		I just stood there and I had a flashlight with me because it was like 7.15 in the morning.
		And I turned it off, but then I looked down at myself to see if it could see me, and I was wearing a white sweatshirt.
		So I just stared at it and just looked at it, and it just like made this humming sound.
		And then like, I guess it was like a half the size of a football field.
		And it was really, that's big.
		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you think that it did anything to you?
unidentified		No.
		I just, ever since this has happened, I've had these dreams, and they've just been about all these aliens, I should say, but coming to Earth and like...
		Well, listen.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It may be that you would want to consult with somebody who does regressive hypnosis and find out what really happened to you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Because maybe your dreams are telling you that something did happen to you, you know, from your subconscious.
unidentified		This is Premier Networks.
		That was Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM on this Somewhere in Time.
		Don't you give up, baby.
		Don't you cry.
		Don't you give up, baby.
		Reach the other's high.
		Don't you give up, baby.
		I've had nothing but bad love since the day I saw the cat and go.
		So I came and knew you, sweet lady.
		And so when you missed it, come down.
		Crystal ball on the table.
		Showing up you do the fast.
		Thank you.
		Thank you.
		Now, we take you back to the past on Heartbell somewhere in time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And perhaps you would like to answer as you put yourself in position to try this question.
		Why a rib was removed from men for, you know, to treat women.
		Why a rib?
		Why not an appendix?
		We don't use that anyway, right?
		Or maybe tonsils may have to frequently be taken out because they're nothing but irritants.
		But no, we had to give up a rib.
		God knows what we might have been had we had that extra rib.
		But instead.
unidentified		Anyway, we'll be right back.
		You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
		Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11th, 2002.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And then there's this fellow in Arkansas who apparently wanted beer and he wanted it bad.
		He wanted beer badly.
		He decided that he'd take the direct approach and throw a giant cinder block through a liquor store window.
		I mean, there was, you know, there it was, so he couldn't resist.
		I mean, he could see the beer.
		He's drooling.
		He's got nothing on his mind but beer.
		And so he takes a giant cinder block and tosses it through the window.
		Problem is, the cinder block instead impacted with plexiglass and bounced back, naturally hitting him on the head, putting him in the hospital and, of course, in police custody.
		So I guess he didn't go up to the window and do one of these things first.
		You know, he just heaved and that was it.
		West of the Rockies or on the air?
unidentified		Yes.
		This is Jamal calling from Los Angeles.
		Listen to 640 KFI.
		How you doing, Art?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm doing all right, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The mighty KFI in Los Angeles, yes.
unidentified		Great.
		It's very simple.
		I would have never let man create religion because it's the biggest thing that's separating everyone.
		It's the reason why people are killing each other.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It really is.
		I mean, I have no argument with that.
		It is.
unidentified		I mean, basically, I put myself inside of man.
		You don't have to go outside of yourself to find me in religion.
		But I allowed that to happen because there are those that don't have faith and don't, they're having problems going within finding me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		As a matter of curiosity, though, how would you, as God, prevent this, you know, the free will part?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, you would have to make a qualification to the free will provision.
unidentified		Well, that's the thing that a lot of us don't understand.
		There is no free will.
		You can't have a predestined life and the will of choice.
		Both don't go together.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So there really is no free will.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In other words, everything is predestined, which means that it was God's design, is what you're saying.
unidentified		Exactly.
		We have problems getting understanding out of things.
		I mean, I say it in a book.
		I created man in our image.
		Let us create man in our image.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That would be the plural.
		Now, he didn't admit plural.
		In fact, he objected to plural.
unidentified		Right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, sir.
		Well, listen, I appreciate it.
		But I do still think you would have to make an exception to the free rule part.
		The free will part.
		Free rule.
		Well, really the same thing.
		Free will.
		There'd have to be a big except no religion.
		So that rips away a big part of the free will thing.
		There is an overall point to this asking this question and getting these answers, and I wonder if it's dawned on you yet.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
unidentified		Maurice from Honolulu, Hawaii.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		This may sound frivolous, but if I were God, I'd chuck this world up as an experiment gone long.
		Find myself a new Garden of Eden, create a new Adam and Eve.
		But the difference would be their plumbing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh.
unidentified		That would solve a lot of our problems.
unidentified		Well, um.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I really don't know that I should ask you this, but I am eternally curious.
		So please try and frame your answer carefully.
		What would you do to the plumbing?
unidentified		Maybe a change of sex, actually.
unidentified		Sex organs.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So in other words, the female would have the male sex organ.
unidentified		Most of all problems.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now, let me think about that for a moment.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A male...
unidentified		But...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you wouldn't achieve much, would you?
		I mean, if you took all of that, which is sexually a woman, and made it a man, then you'd have a woman.
		Another way around as well.
		So you'd still have the same old problem, it's just that you'd have a switcheroo situation.
		Of course, in the modern world, some of that is occurring anyway, isn't it?
		Welcome to the Rockies.
		No, make that the wildcard line.
		You're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello, this is Sarah from Lebanon, Virginia.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sarah, hi.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		You have a giganto show.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
unidentified		I found another word coming into my vocabulary lately.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What would that be?
		Edger.
		Spelling.
unidentified		Such as a noun that I am an edger.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Edger.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Edger meaning.
unidentified		Edge, like on the edge.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		On the edge.
		Oh, you're an edger.
		Edger, an edger.
		That's pretty good.
		It's perhaps not quite gigundous, but good.
unidentified		Anyway, I see your question.
		If I were God, what would I do different?
		I would give mankind the infallible ability to follow instructions.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, what a world that would be.
		To follow instructions.
		Whether given by superiors or, well, meaning people or just generally always able to follow instructions.
unidentified		Right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'm not sure that it could be imposed on Americans, which generally I never follow instructions.
unidentified		Do you?
		Well, that is a deficiency.
		Maybe not intentionally.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So in other words, for example, when you buy something new and it requires some assembly, do you sit down and before you begin, before you put one piece to another piece, you know, like the monkey with the bone in 2001, right?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Before you grab that bone, before you put one piece to another piece, do you actually actually read the instructions?
unidentified		No, usually it is kind of.
		You pick up.
		You figure I know it already.
		All right, well, all right, thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, me too.
		And instructions are only read as a last resort.
		And usually, you know, you've taken 10 steps you weren't supposed to take by then.
		So she would see to it that man would always follow instructions.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		My name is Rhoda.
unidentified		I'm in New Caney, Texas, and I listen to your show on K-T-R-H.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		K-T-R-H.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, what a blast of a radio station in Houston that is, yes.
unidentified		It is quite nice.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You betcha.
unidentified		What I would do if I were the supreme being would be two or three different things.
unidentified		One of them, I would hardwire tolerance into everyone.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Tolerance.
unidentified		You would have free will, but you would be tolerant.
		You could have wars, but you'd have to have a logical reason for them.
		You couldn't just go out and shoot somebody.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In other words, things would have had to have truly eroded to an intolerable position.
unidentified		That is correct.
		Gotcha.
		And the third thing is I deal with the public on a daily basis.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		All physical orders, odors would be like flowers.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Dealing with the general public on a daily basis is a life-challenging situation, isn't it?
unidentified		Yes, it is.
		It is.
		I feel that I have done a good day's work if everybody I've dealt with is still alive at the end of the day.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And the thing is, you really have to do it with a smile, too, don't you?
unidentified		Yes, you do.
		You have to do it with a smile.
		You have to picture them being dropped in boiling oil and smile at the time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know, see, some people who called earlier said that what would make the world great would be if God had given everybody the ability to read everybody else's mind.
unidentified		I don't want to do that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But that really wouldn't work.
		And you're the example of that because really, you know, after somebody has really wronged you in the day, you know, you're smiling at them, but you're really thinking, you miserable bastard.
		And so it just wouldn't work.
unidentified		No, reading your mind wouldn't work.
unidentified		I think that what we need is the ability not to read each other's minds and to be able to smile and think you are a horrible person and still smile and say, have a nice day.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
		All right.
		Thank you very much.
		She is so, so right.
		The reading of minds without severely changing and improving our sociological behavior truly would be a disaster.
		Without the necessary white lies told every day.
		Like the one she's just talking about.
		I mean, there are people you can deal with.
		You know right away these people are trouble.
		These people are hateful people.
		These people don't like you.
		These people don't want to be doing what they're doing right now.
		They certainly don't want to be dealing with you.
		They think you're a schmuck.
		And they can act that way.
		And you've got to smile back.
		And at the end of it all, as she points out, say, have a nice day.
		Without the lie, without the ability to tell that white lie, the world would be a disaster.
		Some would point out, and it is.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		Hey, is this an open line?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It is.
unidentified		All right.
		Let me turn this down.
		Hey, the hydrogen energy that we have, I don't think that's the way to go.
		I've run into a scientist 20 years ago, and he had a flywheel with magnets on it, and it had a drive shaft going to a smaller wheel with magnets, and you give this thing a spin, and it just flies.
		There was a retardant advance on the drive line that went to the two, and there you go.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I understand the theory, but I don't think there's anything that I understand about it that escapes the law that says that eventually it slows down anyway.
unidentified		No, it doesn't.
unidentified		The flywheel, the faster it goes, the more horsepower it has.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, then it would fly apart.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It would go faster and faster.
unidentified		Well, that's why that people like Area 51 keep it out of hand to the public because...
unidentified		Oh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They, well...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you believe that?
unidentified		No, if you're a responsible person, you don't wrap it out to where it blows up.
		What you do is you just govern the thing, and it's really good for space travel as well.
		I think this is what free energy is.
		Anything else is bogus.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well.
		See, while I understand what you're saying, I think the concept is bogus.
		And I don't see if you can explain to me how that actually works and defies the laws that suggest it will slow down ultimately, then I'm listening.
		How does it do that?
unidentified		Okay, two magnets push together.
		You know, we have good magnets nowadays.
		That is considered an explosion.
		Now, when you put those two wheels, one larger than the other, together with a good drive shaft and the teeth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yep, I got all that.
		But what does it do?
		Actually, how is it escaping the law of physics that say that the motion that started is going to no matter how many pushes or explosions there are, it's still going to slow down?
unidentified		No, it's not going to slow down.
		You have a retardant advance on the driveline.
		You push the magnets together, probably 8 or 12.
		Probably the more you have, the faster and the more horsepower you can get out of it at a low RPM.
		You push these opposing magnets together.
		The centrifugal force of the larger one continues to propel the slower one around to push more explosions or electromagnetic repellings.
		And there you go.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I understand the theory.
		I just, you know, in the end, I don't.
		Bring me one that works.
		Bring me an example.
		Send me an example.
		I would love to see it work.
		Even as a toy, a little toy that will endlessly scurry around the floor with The big wheel and the little wheel inside.
		Just keep going around the floor.
		See, I just, I'm sorry.
		I do not believe it.
		I understand a little bit about magnetics, and nobody understands everything.
		It sounds interesting, but if it really worked, it would be well underway by now.
		It just would not be at Area 51.
		There are plenty of people around that can fool with all sorts of electromagnetic stuff outside Area 51.
		We'd know about it.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
		This is me calling from Auberry, California.
		Yes, sir.
		I gave you a Bermuda Triangle story a while back about a bear bomber.
		Have you ever done a Bermuda Triangle show?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Turn your radio off, please.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Let's see.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Have I ever done, well, I've certainly had a number of guests who have commented on the Bermuda Triangle, but I don't think we've ever done a show exclusive to it.
unidentified		Okay, I wanted to ask you, has anybody on your show ever raised the question of aircraft and air crew losses on UFO intercepts?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, it's an interesting question.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I suppose if they wanted to cover up the fact that they had lost aircraft.
unidentified		They have acknowledged one that the Air Force does admit, an F-89 from Kinross AFB.
		That was on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
		It's now closed.
		But this was 23 November 53.
		They were scrambled to intercept an unidentified radar target over the Sioux Locks.
		They were last seen on radar, merging with the UFO blip until only the UFO blip remained.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So, in other words, that jet aircraft may now be on a UFO or in a UFO on its way to heaven knows where.
unidentified		That is what, according to Kevin Randall, who, have you had him on your show?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Okay.
		He mentions it in one of his books.
		He talks to officers, not just pilots, but navigators, GCI, ground control to intercept people, intel officers, everybody.
		The majority of officers on the base felt that that is what happened.
		Only a minority felt that the aircraft had gone into the lake intact.
		And they found nothing.
		No wreckage, no bodies, no nothing.
		And they did not talk.
		Normally in military aircraft crashes, they tell the family members what the last words of the crew were before the incident.
		They did not tell the presumed widow of the pilot or the parents of the backseater anything.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, let me extend your idea a little bit.
		Assuming that other planes are lost in chases after UFOs and that sort of thing.
		If I, sir, were an Air Force public relations guy, I'd say something like, an F-15 was lost today in a training exercise over such and such Air Force base.
unidentified		That's what they would say.
unidentified		That's what they've said after one crashed in New York State in 1954.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, see, there you are.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		There is something happening here.
unidentified		It is ain't exactly.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Maybe there are many planes up there.
unidentified		This is Premier Networks.
		That was Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM on this, somewhere in time.
		I think it's time we stopped, children.
		Watch that sound.
		Everybody look what's going down Music There's battle lines being wrong.
		Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.
		Young people speak in their minds Are getting so much resistance from behind Young people speak in
		their minds Young people speak in
		their minds Young people speak in
		their minds Premier Network presents Art Bell somewhere in time tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11th, 2002.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This is interesting.
		Bruce, up in Toronto, Canada, expresses the following.
		If I was God, I'd kick my children out of the house and tell them to do something with their lives and quit trying to rely on the old man to bail them out of everything.
		I think Bruce may have some issues.
unidentified		Bruce may have some issues.
		You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
		Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11th, 2002.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap.
		You know what those are, right?
		They measure your speed using radar, and instead of having a real live cop there.
		They have a camera.
		And it takes a picture of your car and it prints the speed that you were doing right there on the film.
		It's like you're caught, you're dead meat.
		There's nothing you can do.
		Anyway, this fellow was caught in such a trap.
		He later received in the mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car.
		So instead of paying, he sent the police department a photograph of $40.
		Several days later, he received a letter back from the police that contained a picture in it.
		It was a picture of handcuffs.
		He immediately made his $40 fine.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello.
		Hi.
		My name is Corine.
		I live in Lower Westchester County in New York.
		Listen, WABC.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, WABC.
unidentified		Yes.
unidentified		If I were God, what I would do differently is exactly what God has done, but not too many people are aware of it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, but you're breaking the spirit of the question.
unidentified		No, no.
unidentified		Just give me a minute.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, you're going to have to get there.
unidentified		All right.
unidentified		One of your callers said this evening I would have people speak a universal language.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		Remember the movie Contact?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		Jody Foster said mathematics was a universal language.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
unidentified		And she stressed the importance of prime numbers.
		What I would do as God is what exactly God has done with a friend of mine, which is to prepare him from the 60s on the importance of numbers.
		And through the years, he has revealed through the prime number table thousands and thousands of confirmations of certain spiritual truths.
		And one of them is, I'll just give a few, is that most...
		Oh, yes, I am.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I mean, I suppose in a roundabout way, you're saying everybody should be communicating with math, right?
unidentified		But this person has, and I want to give a website, has revealed.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no, no.
		We just want to see it.
		Now, that's another rule you break.
unidentified		We don't give websites.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Besides, 37, 16, 5, and 1.
		And you damn well ought to know what that means.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
unidentified		Good evening, Art.
		It's a pleasure to talk to you today.
		I'm George from Queens, listening to you on WABC.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		WABC again, yes, sir.
unidentified		I'd like to talk about Seth Shostak.
unidentified		And what brought that up in my mind in recent days is that you were talking about Samuel Donaldson making a prediction on this week with Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
unidentified		And he indicated that this might be a year for SETI to make contact.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Correct again.
unidentified		Well, did you catch this syndicated show at the game show, To Tell the Truth, about two weeks ago?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That I didn't.
unidentified		Well, believe it or not, Seth was on Seth.
		Yes.
		You're kidding.
		No, I'm not.
		And he was the person, he was the guest whose occupation you were to identify.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's a good one.
unidentified		Okay.
unidentified		Now, in the affidavit that he, you know, normally they give a little affidavit according to what the occupation is.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
unidentified		And he explained how about in Puerto Rico, the array of antennas and what they're doing to try to look for extraterrestrial life.
		He explained the SETI project and what his job was to make contact with E.T. Yes.
		And at the end of the affidavit, if the affidavit was written by Seth, he says, I believe the way it was put was important.
		He says, I think that this will be the year that we make contact with E.T. Are you serious?
		That was put at the end of the affidavit.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm pretty sure that you think that was written by Seth?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It sounds like it, doesn't it?
unidentified		Well, that's the way it was put in the affidavit.
		I can't vouch.
		It wasn't maybe we'll find E.T. the.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I hear you.
		I hear you.
		This does not sound like Seth.
unidentified		Right.
		It doesn't sound like Seth.
		That's why I bring it to you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Not the Seth I know and argue with all the time.
unidentified		Right.
unidentified		That's like, I don't even know he would allow that type of affidavit to be presented to the audience.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, all right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to have to get hold of Seth and ask him if it be true.
unidentified		Okay?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I will do that, all right?
unidentified		All right.
unidentified		I thought it would be of interest to you because of the way it was put.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, it is of high interest to me, believe me, sir.
		If Seth Shostak predicted, oh my, talk about neck out a million miles.
		Did you really do that, Seth?
		I know he's a listener.
		Did you really do that, Seth?
		It certainly is true that Sam Donaldson made the prediction.
		Now, what do you suppose might be known to these gentlemen that is not known to me?
		Or probably to you.
		They're both very highly placed.
		Sam Donaldson at the top of his craft at ABC, no question about it.
		Oh, and by the way, we think we're lining Sam to come on the show now.
		All we have to do is talk Sam into staying up late enough.
		He must come on.
		He's got to stay up late enough.
		You can do it, Sam.
		Maybe a Friday night, Saturday morning.
		Have you on.
		Have questions for you about why you made that prediction.
		Now a Seth Shostack has said that.
		Oh, my.
		One could almost imagine among the Seth Shostacks and the Sam Donaldsons that there is a field oh knowledge that we don't have.
		Of course, if there was, they would never, ever admit it.
		Right?
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello, sir.
unidentified		Yeah, Jim from Alto, Texas.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Uh-huh.
unidentified		On WOAI, is who we're listening to in San Antonio.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Z-Monster at 1,200 on the dial.
unidentified		You bet.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		Well, the God question.
		Yeah.
		The big one.
		The big one.
		I think if it was up to me, I'd take a big step backwards and go all the way back to the lowly earthworm for one thing and have one sex.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You mean we're.
		You know, there was an interesting story that ran earlier today on CNN, which could indicate a rather important change, sea change, so to speak.
		They had a story, I swear to you this is true, that in an aquarium, there was just a shark born, which in of itself, you would say, well, so what?
		This was an aquarium that only has held girl sharks.
		Period.
		Never male sharks.
		And one of these girl sharks, CNN's word, just had a baby shark.
		Now, that's potentially devastating or not, right?
unidentified		Self-fertilization.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
unidentified		Well, they're the earthworm, and they have both sexes in one body.
		You know how much that would calm down a household?
		Not to have him and her fighting over stuff.
		And to take it one step further, I think I'd make everybody the same color.
		And I have no idea what color.
		That could be green, blue.
		I don't care.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		My wife came in a little while ago and said polka dots.
unidentified		There you go.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But then, you know, we'd find people with differently placed polka dots.
		And God help somebody who would be born with dashes, right?
		So, you know, I'm sure we'd get around to it if we still want it.
		But anyway, I appreciate your call.
unidentified		Okay, thanks, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right, thank you.
		West for the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hey, Ark, this is John up in Portland, listening to KEX.
		Yes, John.
		And if I were God, I think that I would create something fun like the flying horse.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The flying horse.
unidentified		I think that would take care of the energy problem and might create a new industry for umbrellas.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It would be cool to look in the sky and see a flock of flying horses.
		You've got to admit.
		I mean, have you ever seen the geese on their way, you know, in the big V formation?
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Imagine a big V formation of horses.
unidentified		You know, like Pegasus.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
unidentified		That'd be great.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It would.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It would add a lot visually, wouldn't it?
unidentified		And then instead of the Ten Commandments, I'd have the Ten Guidelines.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The Ten Guidelines?
unidentified		Let's take care of that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Thank you.
		The Ten Guidelines.
		Well, that's PC and really good stuff for 2002, right?
		The Ten Guidelines.
		The spirit of the guidelines could then be talked about.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello, Arn.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		This is Greg.
unidentified		I'm on my way to Red Loft.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I can tell you're on a cell phone.
unidentified		I'm sorry.
unidentified		That's the only thing I have.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I understand.
unidentified		Okay.
unidentified		Well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		God bless them.
unidentified		I have two things, if you don't mind.
unidentified		First, I'd like to ask you, I've heard you in the past mention that you used to listen to a man named Mom John Neville.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Of course, years ago in New York.
unidentified		Yes.
		Yeah.
		You know what?
		He wrote a book one time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Did you ever read it?
		I do not have his book.
		I've heard that he wrote one.
		No, sir, I don't have it.
unidentified		I used to have a copy of it.
		It was real interesting.
		It was about a UFO flap that occurred in the 60s in Ohio.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		Eastern Ohio and West Virginia and Kentucky.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Uh-uh.
		See, this is my argument with cell phones.
		He's gone.
		Just gone.
		Poof.
		It was a disagreeable connection in the first place.
		I am going to say another word about this because I cannot stand it.
		I just can't stand it.
		There is no excuse for audio like that in the year 2002.
		There is no excuse.
		What in the hell is wrong with these cell phone manufacturers and cell phone companies anyway?
		Oh my God, ham radio rigs produce a cleaner signal, better audio.
		We have taken a step backward.
		I mean, you heard the same call I just heard, right?
		The one that cut off.
		What kind of step forward in technology is that?
		It's not.
		It's a step backward.
unidentified		Backward.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We've moved in reverse.
		What the hell's wrong with you people?
		Can't you put together a technology that delivers some decent audio over a cell phone, for God's sakes?
		Well, for gosh sakes, it's really annoying.
		It's really annoying, and it is not an advance.
		It is retarded science.
		And the industry needs to address it.
		Wester the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Yeah, good morning, Art.
		Good morning.
unidentified		This is Dennis in Phoenix listening to 550 KFYI.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		Thanks for bringing back Phaedra.
unidentified		I'd only heard that two or three times when it first came out.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I quit playing it.
unidentified		I never learned who did it or whatever.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Haunting, isn't it?
unidentified		It sure is.
		I have something I think you'll be interested in, a song.
		There's a group, it came out in 72.
		The album is Renaissance.
		Renaissance is the group that did it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The album is Prologue.
unidentified		And the song is the last song on it.
unidentified		It's 11 minutes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And the name is Raja Khan.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		And I think it has all the elements you like in music.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I am willing to listen.
unidentified		Alrighty.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That is how I build my library of music.
		And by the way, I want to thank everybody who sent in music lists.
		And one more time, one last time, I would like to solicit music lists.
		I am looking for the most comprehensive lists that I can find of music, say, between 1950, even into the 40s, perhaps, but generally between about 1950 and now, or at least into the 90s.
		Now, in my aged opinion, music as it approaches and moves into the mid to late 80s and then into the 90s begins to deteriorate into something that doesn't, in most cases, resemble music.
		Now, there are notable exceptions to this, but generally, it degenerates into almost white noise, which is sort of all noise.
		White noise is sort of everything.
		A cacophony of everything, which you cannot call a tune.
		You cannot tap your foot to it.
		You certainly can't sing to it.
		Anyway, I'm looking for some really comprehensive lists for certain reasons.
		So if you have one of those, please send it along to artbell at mindspring.com.
		That's A-R-T-B-E-L-L at mindspring.com.
		East of the Rockies, you are on the air.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
unidentified		This is Tim from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		I wanted to try to answer your question.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And the question now, I need to keep saying, if you were God, what would you do differently?
unidentified		Yep.
		What I'd do differently is first off, to explain what the answer I'm going to give.
		I had seen a political cartoon a long time ago, and it was three frames.
		The first frame showed Garden of Eden with the animals and man.
		Second frame showed the globe itself.
		And the third frame showed a child's bedroom with the globe sitting on the shelf.
		And the words in the caption said, God, put up your toys.
		It's time to eat.
		And what my answer would be is what I would do different is I wouldn't have put my toys up.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You wouldn't put your toys up, no?
unidentified		No.
		I would stick with the project that I was doing.
		It almost seems like he put his toys up and he hasn't come back to them.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's a good point.
		In fact, it may even be the truth.
		Thank you very much.
		In other words, he just may not even be paying attention.
		I mean, we all presume, right?
		He's paying attention even.
		He may be off doing something else.
		May have just sort of gotten things started down here and just left us for a while and hasn't paid attention, hasn't even thought about us since.
		Remember, one second for God is a million years for man.
		Could be that way, certainly.
		So in a second or two, he may look back and then look out.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hi.
unidentified		Yeah, this is Paige from Tricers, Washington.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Paige.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Paige, extinguish your radio.
unidentified		Okay, hold on.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Very important, Paige.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And everybody else, the minute you get on the air, you've got to have that turned off, not down, but off, or it will confuse you.
unidentified		Wow, this is crazy.
unidentified		I'm actually on the air.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		What I'd actually do is I'd swap humans with animals, put ourselves in their shoes.
unidentified		Oh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And animals would suddenly become obviously humans, right?
unidentified		And they would have the guns.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And they'd have the guns.
unidentified		They'd have to say so on what goes on.
unidentified		They would push us off our land.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		If such a thing should occur, and you had your option, would you be a domestic pet or would you be a wild animal?
unidentified		Ooh, I'd probably be domestic.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Would you?
unidentified		They seem to take better care of us.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A dog or a cat?
unidentified		I'd be a dog.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You'd be a dog?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Just sort of one of those happy-go-lucky little sucking-up, licking dogs.
unidentified		A lazy dog.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A lazy dog.
		All right, sir.
		Thank you.
		That'd be a good subject for a movie, wouldn't it?
		Maybe I've just given somebody in Hollywood an idea.
		They don't get ideas mostly on their own.
		You know, but they've done every other type of thing like that.
		So how about that?
		The animal kingdom switched with the human kingdom.
		First time caller line, you're on air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Yes, Art.
		Yes.
		Yes.
		Well, if I was God.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm in Chicago area.
		Okay.
		Listening to WLS AM radio.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Of course.
unidentified		Yes.
		And the one thing I would do, I wouldn't change anything, but I would add one thing.
		In each incarnation, we would have total recall of each previous incarnation.
		Huh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And all the pride or the guilt that would go with it?
unidentified		Well, then all the knowledge.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's a good point.
		Mankind, I agree with you.
		If reincarnation is real, this is really interesting to think about.
		If reincarnation is real, then why not allow each reincarnation to have full memory of the last?
		The advancement of mankind would be so much, so much faster.
		And it be time for you to have responsible souls out there.
		I'm Art Bell.
unidentified		This is Coast to Coast A.M. You are listening to Art Bell somewhere in time.
		Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11, 2002.
		We're going on the day, bound to bound their homes.
		The people of the town are strange.
		And the town are where they came.
		Well, you're talking about the time, the time to grow.
		Where are the time to grow?
		Welcome.
		How are you doing, Lovey?
		Oh, I'm waiting by your side.
		You've been running, hiding, rushed and gone.
		You know it's just your foolish man.
		Yeah, love.
		Got me on my knees, baby.
		Dang it, darling, be the baby.
		Darling, don't you leave my way around.
		Tried to give you consolation.
		Your old man let you down.
		Like a fool, I fell in love with you.
		You turned my whole life so down.
		Hey, love.
		Got me on my knees, baby.
		listening to Art Bell somewhere in time tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11th, 2002.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, and it is a Friday night, Saturday morning with a gigantic question on the table, and that is, if you were God, what would you do differently?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Otherwise, open lines all night long.
unidentified		Thank you.
		Somewhere in Time with Art Bell continues, courtesy of Premier Networks.
		Music by Ben Thede Once again, into the night.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		On the wildcard line, you are on the air.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
unidentified		How you doing?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm okay, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How are you?
unidentified		Oh, I'm fine.
unidentified		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where?
unidentified		This is the first time I've been able to talk to you in like eight, ten years.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I am in Motley, Minnesota.
		Okay.
		And if I can give a plug for the CC Radio, it's the best thing I ever bought.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I know.
		Everybody says that.
		I mean, it's awesome.
		It's totally awesome.
unidentified		See, where I'm at, I can't pick up anything local.
		So I pick you up out of Chicago or Louisville, Kentucky, or I pick you up out of Omaha.
		Sometimes I can get you out of Minneapolis, but most of the time I'm picking you up out of Chicago or Louisville.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, you say you're in Motley, Minnesota?
unidentified		Yes, it's about 20 miles west of Brainerd, where they have the International Speedway.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you have a radio station in Motley?
unidentified		No, there's only about 400 people here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that does limit your options a little bit.
		So, yes, you must listen long distance.
		Then, if you have the CC radio, what I would do is it's got those really cool presets on the front, and I would just set it up for each station that I can hear.
		And when one takes a fade, boom, you're on the next one.
unidentified		That's exactly what I've been doing for three years.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Smart man.
unidentified		If I were God, I don't know.
unidentified		That'd be a big leap.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, yeah, but sure, but that's what the question is allowing you to do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Take a big leap and do something a little different.
unidentified		I think what I do is change, give everybody the ability to really look at their perspectives, you know, because there's a different way of looking at things all the time.
		And I think that I would also have them be a little bit more acceptable of things around them.
		And I'd probably give them the secret of happiness, at least what I believe it is.
		And that's to learn how to be content with your dissatisfaction.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's a compromise, right?
unidentified		That's true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Learning how to be content with your dissatisfaction.
		I'm going to have to consider that.
		Isn't that sort of a resignation that there is no satisfaction?
		Well...
		You can't get no satisfaction.
unidentified		Being human beings, we're imperfect, so we can't...
unidentified		That's just an illusion.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I know, but you always strive.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And if you accept your state of dissatisfaction, you have resigned yourself to the fact that you are going to be in this condition always.
unidentified		Well, I don't know if it's necessarily an acceptance of it, but more of resignation.
unidentified		Well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, yeah.
unidentified		To learn how to be content is not necessarily to be resigned.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, yes, but if the source of your contentment is the knowingly unchangeable dissatisfaction, that is the way you framed it.
unidentified		I guess that's true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Well, thank you very much.
		Take care.
		It's like giving up.
		Life stinks, but hey, I'm happy.
		I think that's what he said.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
unidentified		How are you doing?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm doing okay, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How are you?
unidentified		Good.
		I have some music for you.
		The series is called Lifescapes, and it's called The Scottish Moors by Jeff Victor.
		And the company is Compass Productions.
		And they have his little notation down here, is Jeff Victor, we use haunting tapestry of this musical land, or mystical land, using harp, bagpipe, violin, piano guitar, and the whispers of the moors.
		The ghost of the piper.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know, I would have to hear it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, you can describe music until the cows come home, but you've got to hear it.
unidentified		Well, I think it would be something that you would be interested in.
unidentified		It has all the hauntings of the Moors.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I might, but I might.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You never know.
unidentified		Yeah, and I'd like to thank you for your show.
		It's kept me going.
		I do Crown and Bridge work.
		I own a Crown Bridge dental laboratory.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh.
unidentified		And there are many, many crowns with a little art bell twist on them.
		What does that mean?
		They've got a little art bell flare in the anatomy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you serious?
unidentified		Yeah, I weave little A's and B's into the anatomy.
unidentified		It's possible to do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I'm sure it is, but, oh, man, I'm not so sure that's a good thing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		it's moral i mean so there are people walking around with my initials in their How many of these things do you?
unidentified		Oh, I've done thousands.
unidentified		And I've been listening to you since, oh, I don't know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Mid-90s.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Might be the mark of the beast.
unidentified		No, I don't think so.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you realize how much human misery you're responsible for?
		I mean, in order to get a crown or a bridge, generally the requirements are teeth get shaved with horrible, horrible.
		Oh, yeah, and sometimes root canals.
		Down in there, first you've got to have the root canal, and then they shave the tooth and teeth.
unidentified		Well, I like how they try and talk to you when you can't say anything, when your face is sliding off your skull.
unidentified		But yeah, there's just thousands and thousands of people that can't stand.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now listen, I'm curious.
		Could a person, if they were really careful, take a mirror or something, and would it be on the outside or would it be on the inside?
		In other words, could they check and see if they've been so marked?
unidentified		Oh, it would be on the occlusal surface.
unidentified		If they could see through a mirror, they would.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Speak English.
unidentified		It would be on the surface that faces upward or downward.
unidentified		It depends on if it's your uppers or lowers.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's the best yet.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, I appreciate it, sir.
unidentified		All right, thanks, Archie.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Take care.
		Oh, my God.
		So my mark is in your mouth.
		Thousands of your mouths.
		My mark is in thousands of your mouths.
		Every time you chomp down on a quarter pounder or crack a carrot, you're doing it with my initials.
		That's immortality of a sort.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
		Hey, Art.
		This is Alan in Rupert Maine, California at 580 KMJ.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		Hey, if I was God, I'd do away with blind faith.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		With blind faith?
unidentified		Yeah, why would God, with need a big ego where everybody has to worship him and always wonder if he's really there to answer the prayers?
unidentified		You know, he could be on your show answering questions, pop into Letterman.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, ask this of yourself.
		Would God be more interested in those who had blind faith, as you pointed out, or those who constantly question?
		Where do you think his attention would be?
unidentified		Well, I think it'd do away with a lot of problems.
unidentified		Everybody would know he was there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, but what I'm saying is, wouldn't God, by nature, pay more attention to those who didn't have blind faith?
		Because, you know, the blind faith ones, you don't need to pay attention to them.
		They're already part of the flock.
unidentified		That's true.
		But just think how much fun he could have popping in to card games, you know, driving down the crew, all of a sudden he's sitting there next to you, changing your radio dial.
		I just think that blind faith causes a lot of problems.
		You know, God's a big boy.
		He doesn't have to have everybody feed his ego.
		He could just be everywhere all the time, answering everybody's questions personally.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's a good point.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		When you get a chance, check your teeth, sir.
unidentified		I will do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		First-time caller line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello, Art.
		Hi.
		Mike in Columbus, Ohio, listening to you on 610 WTVM.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		To answer your first-time caller and more than I don't know what the word is.
		I listen to you all the time, drive a truck, listen to you all night long.
		Anyway, to answer your question, I think that, okay, one caller tested on it earlier.
		What is it called when you can self-inseminate all species can are you on a cell phone?
		Well, actually, I was trying the first, I was trying the wildcard line on the cell phone and trying the 1-800 number at home.
		I was trying on both phones.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're on a cell phone, though, right?
unidentified		Yeah, I got you on the wildcard line.
unidentified		Do you hate cell phones?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Only because of the way they sound.
unidentified		Oh, I hate them myself.
unidentified		Okay, what is it called, though?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, okay.
		Well, it's called many things.
		Like an earthworm.
		In other words, when you're asexual and you can seem to reproduce anyway, that would eliminate a lot of problems in the world and in relationships with the humans.
		It would, but the world would not be as interesting a place.
		The world would be a much more boring place.
		Now, I suggest that we all watch this story on CNN very, very carefully.
		This could be the beginning of a trend.
		What if, as part of human evolution...
		Keith, if you're listening, see if you can find the story.
		CNN, on their crawl on the bottom, was doing a story about a tank filled only with girl sharks.
		Now, that was their word.
		CNN said girl sharks.
		Apparently, a shark has been born.
		And I think they threw up the whole story was, but Miraculous Conception or something or another.
		But there were only girl sharks in the tank.
		I mean, they're absolutely certain of that.
		And one of these girl sharks just had a baby shark.
		Now, as we're watching for evolutionary changes, this could be an important story.
		Oh, West of the Rockies.
		You're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Turn your radio off, please.
unidentified		Okay, sorry.
		I don't actually believe in God, but if I were God, I would make one change to humanity, and I'd make it so everyone was telepathic, but to the sense that they could feel each other's feelings.
		So if anyone did wrong to another person, they would also have to suffer through their traumatic problems.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, somebody else suggested the same thing, telepathy, but there's a big, big, big problem with that.
		And that is that we don't always tell people really what we think of them.
		And we don't always think well of them at all.
		And so if there were total telepathy out there, there would be all there would be so many fights.
unidentified		Yeah, I guess so, but it would also serve to people to make sure that they don't do wrong to others, I would believe.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, you see, I think actually it would be even worse than the situation we have now, where we generally kill each other in various gods' names.
		It would be worse.
		I mean, there would be killings about what people thought.
		I know a lot of people, actually, that would kill me, or probably would want to if they knew what I thought about them, right?
		And you've got to admit, for many of you, the very same thing is true.
		And so if there were total telepathy, it would be a disaster.
		First time, call our line, you're on the air.
		Hello?
unidentified		Is this talk 100?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is it what?
unidentified		1100.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		1100?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is it WTAM?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In a way, it is WTAM, yes.
unidentified		I just wanted to call and throw in my two cents about your question about what would I do if I was God?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
unidentified		Well, my opinion, first of all, I wouldn't want to be God.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wait a minute, hold it.
		That's not the question.
		Not the question.
		In order to participate in the question, you have to sort of be God to a degree here because you're going to tell us what you would do differently.
unidentified		Well, the reason I really wanted to call, I wanted to ask you a question.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sure.
unidentified		Will you be God, right?
unidentified		And if you make a human being out of his image, what really puzzles me is that, you know, our seed, the way we make our youth and the way we make our children, how come God made us where the same, you know, as the penis, right, the same organism that we use to, you know, to reproduce, how come it's the same thing that we basically use to deposit our waste?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		If you were God, I would use that same well, now, of course, I'm not God.
		I'm just, you know, a talk show host.
		But you see, even though it may have dual functions, they are not simultaneous functions, and so they're entirely different, is the answer to your question.
		And in one mode, it's one thing, and when you're in another mode, you're definitely altogether in another thing, and the two do not coexist in the same time frame.
		So God actually planned it rather well when you think about it, as opposed to the alternative.
		It actually works out just fine.
		And so he seems to have done a grand job in that category.
		And by whatever age you're at, you should know that.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Oh, yes.
unidentified		Good day to you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And to you, sir.
unidentified		This is Keith from Hamilton, Ontario.
		Yes, sir.
		I'd soak in, if I was God, I'd soak in what's been going on, the progression of life, and notice there's more bad in the world than there is good.
		So I'd call out Satan and have a good old-fashioned back-alley fist fight.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You mean you'd start the world into a giant fistfight?
unidentified		Nope, I'd just call out Satan.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Call out Satan?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I'd say, so you'd have a battle, a real knockdown, let's finally get this over with, winner takes all, kind of battle.
unidentified		Exactly it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, the only hitch that I could possibly see in this is how could you be sure how it would come out?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, what if.
unidentified		What if he won?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What if God, you know, at the end of the 12th or 13th round, God was lying there, you know, sort of woozy and not able to get up and took the 10 count.
unidentified		It's like that South Park episode, then, right?
unidentified		Have you seen that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I have, yeah.
unidentified		God fodder Satan, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, in fact, that flashed in my mind when you asked the question.
		But, I mean, really, think about it.
		You would be sort of risking a lot there.
unidentified		The way I look at it, though, he's won for, you know, let's simply say several hundred years.
unidentified		I think it'd be my time to win.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You may have noticed I have a South Park t-shirt on tonight.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, I do.
unidentified		Oh, really?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I do, yeah.
		If you check my webcam, you'll see.
		Okay.
		Take care.
		You know, in fact, I should even see what it looks like.
		My wife and I tried to do something during the last break that did not work out.
		We have four cats, as you know or may not know.
		We own four cats.
		And we tried to each hold two cats putting all four, squeezing all four close enough together to get them in the camera view.
		And I've got a wild cat, and we've got a new totally crackers cat, you know, Yeti.
		And then the other two.
		And altogether, let's see, that'd probably be about, I'm guessing around 50 pounds of cats altogether.
		And we tried it.
		But we just couldn't sit there long enough with four cats.
		Didn't work.
		It almost didn't work violently, in fact.
unidentified		The trip back in time continues, with Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM.
		More somewhere in time coming up.
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art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's a Friday night, Saturday morning.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Anything goes, kind of night, open lines all the way, and we'll get right back to it.
unidentified		Four.
		You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
		Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from January 11, 2002.
		I'm Steve McClendon.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		still wondering about the guy who makes all the crowns and bridges.
		said he's made thousands of them he said thousands of them with my initials in them which means thousands of you out there are walking around with my mark what your mouth
		whoa that's really something to think about and you know I you sort of tell by the tone of his voice that he probably is serious but you know what they do to him if they ever got him good thing he didn't really identify himself huh just a little
		tiny mark that's really weird to think about West of the Rockies you're on the air hello yes sir yes sir yes your show is fabulous well it's whatever it is you know what would I do if I was God yes what would you do differently
unidentified		well first thing I would do is I would make it really unpopular to be a leader well I would make it extremely unpopular to be a person that leads other people but we must have leaders we must have leaders but the first thing I would do is I'd make the current form of leadership super unpopular by explaining in full detail the principles of
		plunder and double standards whether enacted into law or practice illegally and I would immediately send any leader that's you know but without plunder and double standards we wouldn't have leaders precisely what I would do is I take them I'd send them straight to hell I see and I'd let everybody else see where they are and I'd repeatedly play that and anybody who decided to lead by plunder and
		double standards would have the immediate
art bell ▲ ● ▼		threat of hell well maybe you all you'd have to do is make an audio tape available that would remind people remind people of what it sounds like down there one taken in the former soviet union in the deepest hole ever drilled maybe you'd do something like that first time caller line
		you're on the air hello yeah good morning art good morning to you this is god calling from the trinity mountains in northern california listening to you on 780 not sure what station it is well I can help you out there it's coming from reno koh in reno nevada great good good signal yes it is what I would do is go back to genesis and I just have adam and eve eat the snake huh uh interesting thought uh and
		what do you think if that had happened where what would the world be like now people it would apples
		everywhere uneaten uh and and snake would be a delicacy I'm sure well snake would be a delicacy just eat the snake yeah I mean you get the first taste you know and it's with you forever all right sir thank you you bet take care well that's interesting uh wild card line you're on the air hello good morning art good morning calling from san diego yes sir not sure the station but uh I had to think about this one this is a good one that would be ko go 600 on the
unidentified		dial that's it uh this one puzzled me but I did come up with something I think that could have been provided that would give mankind a greater understanding of a whole lot yes sir and that would be a timeline give us a timeline of geological events of animal and
unidentified		plant life development you mean like when earthquakes are going to occur um no this would be our our timeline for our past of course we're looking at the bible being presented to mankind what 3,000 years ago the history of the world up to that point all of the questions that science has and of nature and plant life and animal life could have been laid out for us.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm not sure I get it.
unidentified		Let's see.
		How would I describe it, maybe?
		Give us a sequence of events.
		In Genesis, he gave us a timeline of who begat who.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's true.
unidentified		Well, how about a timeline of what the Earth was doing?
		When did the dinosaurs happen?
		What happened to Cro-Magnum Man?
		When did plant life, you know...
		When the Bible was written.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I know, but it would be predictive in nature, or would it only have covered the things to that time?
unidentified		Only a history, yes.
unidentified		Only a history so that we would have the answers scientists are always looking for.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's really fascinating, and there may be such a document, actually.
		Again, whether it be beneath the Sphinx or some other location, there may be a written history of mankind yet to be found.
		In fact, I'm almost certain of it.
		One day it will be.
		I wonder if it will be believed in this modern day and age.
		Not much is.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hey, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hey, yes.
unidentified		Hey, I didn't know.
		I didn't hear anything.
		Click in.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, we have modern equipment.
unidentified		Yeah, this is Tony out of Jacks Creek, Tennessee.
unidentified		WNWS 101.5 out of Jackson, Tennessee.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's the way you do it.
unidentified		Thank you.
		I want to tell you before I tell you about what I'd do if I was God, the power of radio.
		I talked to you back about a year and a half ago and told you about Olivia Newton-John's UFO experience that she had in Australia.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I recall, yes.
unidentified		Yeah, and you know, the next morning, which my sister-in-law, my oldest sister-in-law, she's in Applegate up near Truckee, California.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		And she called me the next morning, and I hadn't talked to her in about five years, and she told me she heard my voice on your station.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is that amazing?
		Well, it is, and it isn't.
		I mean, there are millions and millions of people listening, so the odds of that sort of thing happening, I guess, are pretty good, actually.
unidentified		Yeah, she called and she said, I know that voice.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It is.
unidentified		It's you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It is amazing, yes.
unidentified		Yeah.
		Now, if I was God, what I would do differently, I would be holding every month a judgment day.
		And that judgment day would be posted.
		Whether you went to heaven or went to hell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You probably have a military background, don't you?
unidentified		No, I really don't.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You don't?
unidentified		No, sir, I don't.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That sounds like a military thing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		There'll be judgment every month, and it's going to be posted every month.
unidentified		It's going to be posted.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's going to be demerits and much worse.
unidentified		You'd sure know which way your buddy went.
unidentified		Up or down.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That would keep everybody pretty much on the straight and arrow.
unidentified		There you'd go.
unidentified		It would get them going in the right way.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, thank you.
		Sure.
		A judgment day every month.
		Sometimes comments occur to one in discussions like this that are best kept to oneself.
		West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, Art Bell.
unidentified		It's Deb Deb from Oakland, KSFO Land.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Your name isn't really Deb Deb, is it?
unidentified		Actually.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It is?
unidentified		A guy by the name of Tom called me that when I was about 10.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And it's stuck.
unidentified		And I'm in my 40s now.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I see.
unidentified		Anyway, yes, if I were God, there are a couple of items that I have on my notes.
		I just lost my baby cat, my 18-year-old cat, on November 2nd, and I just haven't been the same since.
		And first of all, I'd bring her back to life in a young body.
		And then that's just selfishly speaking.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I will give you one little grain of wisdom here.
		And that is that I think that happens.
		And I think that when you lose a cat, I'm addressing only cat people here now.
		Another cat will come to you.
unidentified		Well, actually, she already did.
		I brought another cat home that was doomed from the animal control.
		And I swear to God, she even acts like the way Balou used to act.
		And it's kind of mind-boggling.
		But that just teaches you that there are really no accidents.
		You definitely meet the people and animals that you're supposed to.
		The next item, as far as God goes, although, oh, gosh, sometimes I dream about Balou, and I think it's real because she'll let me touch her and everything in the dreams.
		What are you going to do?
		So anyway, the other thing about God is I'd go ahead, go straight into whichever dimension it is, seventh or eighth or ninth.
		Some of the more new age, more educated people might know this, but I'd get rid of all the veils, get rid of the death, have it be that when somebody got tired of their old, you know, crunky old body, that they would just go ahead and say, okay, I'm gone.
		Bye-bye.
		Be like the shamanic leaders that would just walk off onto the prairie and die for the younger Indian people.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You could do that if you wanted to.
unidentified		Well, if they wanted to go and say, oh, God, I hate the way my legs are, or I hate the way my back hurts.
		Well, you know, if you did physically age, which I think I'd still let people physically age and learn stuff.
		I mean, that's the whole point of this anyway.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you suggesting, you know I have a bad back, of course, that it's time for me to take the long walk?
unidentified		Well, it might be the sort of thing where if, see, I wouldn't get rid of the technology that would allow for the titanium hip or the new backbone or somehow we'll have the technology to learn all about the central nervous system.
		I think chiropractic kind of, you know, is just scratching the surface on that.
		And then certain acupuncture sciences Would be like totally known by all.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Time to take the shamanic walk.
unidentified		Well, you know, I'm sure that when you get older, I mean, especially in this culture, that might not be the thing you want to do.
		You might want to be clinging, you know.
		I've seen a lot of older people and younger people go.
		And I know they always kind of go, oh, give me that last five minutes, no matter how much pain they're in.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's generally true, yes.
		Thank you very much.
		Oh, it was a specific comment about my back.
		Hmm.
		Off I go into the desert.
		That'd be my choice.
		First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hello.
		Hello.
		Good morning, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good morning, sir, on a cell phone.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Speak quickly.
unidentified		Yes.
		I was wanting to know about your buddy that killed the two Bigfoots.
		If you'd heard anything about that, I'd refer any updates.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, you refer to a man named Bugs, and the answer is no.
		No, no.
		Bugs' wife said no.
		There is a standing offer to Bugs when he works it out with his wife or when circumstances change.
		God forbid Mrs. Bugs should leave the world, you know, or whatever might change.
		There's a standing offer for him to come forward.
		So until something happens, something different, then no.
		Wildcard line, you're on the air.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello, Mr. Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello, sir.
unidentified		Yes, sir.
		A couple things, if I may.
		I think you should bring back the trumpets, O Gabe, to open the show like you used to.
		I told you that would be.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I should bring back what?
unidentified		Old Gabe, the trumpets.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I use those.
		Well, I never opened the show with them, sir.
		I use them when it's appropriate.
		When I get a sort of an overwhelming wash of Armageddon.
unidentified		I understand.
		Okay.
		If I were God, I would bring back a replica, a brazen replica of me in all four corners.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, there would be a kind of thing.
unidentified		In my image, of course.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That'd be like the kind of thing the Taliban blew up.
		I'm still thinking about that.
		The Taliban, and I've really been thinking about this for a long time since it occurred.
		And I said it here on the air when it occurred.
		Do you remember when the Taliban blew up the Buddhas?
		I mean, just took explosives out there, this was their heyday, and blew up the Buddhas.
		I knew there was going to be big trouble for the Taliban, that there would be big, serious karma as a result of that.
		And I'm not saying that there has been, but frankly, there has been.
		So you can put it down to coincidence or whatever you want.
		East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		This is Bob in Wichita, listening in KFH.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
unidentified		If I were God, I'd one thing, there's several things I would do, but the first and most important thing would be to unlock the other 90% of the human brain so that man could utilize his potential, full potential.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, and another question might be, why are we here now only using roughly 10%?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		In other words, why is it locked in the first place?
unidentified		Well, I'm not really God, so I couldn't answer that.
		But I would do that, and then I would give everybody total empathy so that they could relate to other people, animals, and nature.
		And I would give them total integrity and let them go from there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Maybe the human mind is just like a Microsoft program, and until you get the right key to put in, you can only sort of use a few of the features.
		Yeah.
		And so human beings need the right key, and when they get the right key and get it in there, then we can use it all.
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		I think if we had that ability, we'd be just maybe a little bit too insightful to go around killing each other.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Either that or we'd blow ourselves up totally.
		Now, going back to a question I asked a moment ago about why we don't use it all, that might be the reason.
		It might be that if we did use it all, we would invent such incredible ways to end the world that it would be absolutely inevitable.
		And only our relative stupidity at 10% has kept us alive this long.
		I mean, you can look at things a lot of ways, right?
		West of the Rockies, you're on there.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
unidentified		I can't believe I got through to you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A lot of people say that.
unidentified		I know.
unidentified		I'm a long-time listener, first-time caller.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And where are you?
unidentified		I am in Coos County, Oregon.
unidentified		I'm listening to you on KWRO.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, indeed.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's on the coast, right?
unidentified		Yeah, I'm actually in the same little town that Harden Optical is in.
unidentified		And I always get a kick out of it when you play their advertisements.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, they're a great company.
unidentified		Yeah, they are.
		And the Oregon Coast is a great place.
		I had a thought that kind of fell into a little bit what the last caller was just saying about without having tell other people's minds, what if we, from a fairly young age, felt pain that we inflicted on other people to the same severity?
		Without knowing if they were happy or sadder, they thought, gosh, I hate that shirt she has on today.
		But actual pain is felt.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Then it would indeed be a very different world.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We wouldn't have the mindless, sort of blank, staring youth that does some pretty inexplicable things that we have today.
unidentified		Right.
		And don't you think it would be kind of like Pavlog's dog or whatever were our learned behaviors as we were growing up?
		Absolutely.
		We would avoid circumstances where we would feel pain, and therefore we wouldn't be inflicting it on, you know, we wouldn't want to inflict it on someone else because we would feel it just as severely, physical or emotional.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I must say that's pretty good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's pretty dog-eyed.
unidentified		I'm honored.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't even hear, I don't even see an immediate catch in that.
		If we had empathy and felt what others felt when we hurt them.
		When we hurt them.
unidentified		But without knowing what their thoughts were or being able to read their minds, just feeling the painful, emotional or physical, if we're beating the crap on the radio.
unidentified		Yeah, you can.

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