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Dec. 31, 2002 - Art Bell

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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Art's Farewell Show - Predictions

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	So, let's get started.
	♪♪♪ From the high desert and the great American southwest,
	as the brand new year races across the Americas, Peace.
	It just raced across the Midwest, headed toward the Mountain Time Zone, and then eventually out here to the Pacific Time Zone, I bid you good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be.
	All those time zones out there covered very thoroughly by this program one way or the other.
	This, of course, is Coast to Coast AM, and I'm Art Bell, and this is it, folks.
	Tonight is the last program, and so I'm going to have a few words about that, and about things in general, in a moment.
	No, I'll do it now.
	Let me do it now.
	There's a lot of important stuff I really want to get out.
	I've been working with a wonderful group of people now for a whole lot of years.
	A whole lot of years, and I really want to thank them.
	And I've noticed everybody is doing that for the year anyway, including CNN.
	CNN had a very nice collage, you know, of all their workers and everything.
	Well, in a way, this is even a little more poignant in that it's goodbye you know for forever now having said forever never say forever at number one number two I will indeed be back from time to time as George needs relief so bear that in mind and and you know I don't like long kisses goodnight so
	If we could please keep that to a complete minimum tonight, I would appreciate it.
	I acknowledge and I thank the thousands of you out there who have sent me emails wishing me well in retirement and all the rest of it.
	Thank you so very much.
	People in radio never really retire.
	They just keep playing radio.
	That's what I'll do.
	But from this program for now, indeed I am retiring and there are consequences apparently to that.
	And one of them is that these people that I've worked with for all these years, really important people that you only hear very occasionally mentioned on the program, I'm going to mention tonight.
	My entire support staff, the entire office that has supported this program in every way you can imagine that I'm about to explain, ...is being closed, and those people, for the most part, almost entirely, are losing their jobs.
	And, uh, they are... ...of course, Deilani Conrad, the operations director there, a total brain, a wonderful woman, a producer, somebody who has, uh, over the last couple of years, when they've been gathering guests for me in Medford, this office, of course, in Medford, Oregon, But brilliant producer, just brilliant.
	She's gone.
	Lisa Lyon, also a producer, an editor, and the After Dark newsletter.
	She is the one exception.
	She will continue as a producer for George Nori.
	Stephanie Smith, in affiliate marketing, administrator, general administrator, office manager.
	She's gone.
	Miley Reid in traffic and web sales.
	She's gone from her regular job and I guess will do a contracting sort of job for the new Coast to Coast AM website.
	Jim Reid in tape duplication and program sales is gone.
	Rondi, our chief, he's our chief engineer.
	And Rondi has for years kept the clocks ticking.
	He's gone.
	Roger Hogel in Affiliate Marketing.
	These are the guys now.
	Roger, for example, talks to the various affiliates in excess of 500 around the country, gathers them and pays attention to their needs.
	He's gone.
	Will Hilliard, who's, you know Will, he's the one who's lost so many pounds up there on Ultraslim.
	He's gone.
	J.D.
	Smith, another board operator.
	We have three of them, actually.
	J.D.
	Smith, a board operator for years, gone.
	Michael Kincaid, a board operator for this program, gone.
	Sherry Miller in customer service is gone.
	Steve Burgess in affiliate marketing, another fellow who talks to affiliates and keeps everybody as happy as possible out there, is gone.
	These are a lot of people who have lost their jobs, and what will happen is, beginning with tomorrow's show, the entire program will go through Los Angeles, and no longer go through Medford, Oregon.
	So I thought it extremely important to acknowledge these people, and then, of course, a couple of more.
	Alan Corbeth.
	Alan, who has been my best friend.
	for many years now.
	In fact, when I was at KDWN in Las Vegas and Alan was one.
	He came down to Las Vegas.
	There have been a lot of stories told about how this occurred, but the truth of the matter is Alan Corbeth came down to Las Vegas, saw and heard my program.
	They'd been listening up in Oregon for some time and he's the one who really was the fire Who put together the syndication of this radio program and has been with me kind of as a, I don't know, mentor, personal friend, business partner, everything.
	Long before it was sold to Premier Radio and way back in the CBC days.
	Oh gosh, we go back a long way.
	So many of these people.
	Alan, my friend, also gone.
	I am sorry to see and regret the decision to close the Medford office.
	I think it is a regrettable decision.
	who did for Alan what my beautiful wife Ramona has done for me all these years.
	Support me in this program.
	So I am sorry to see and regret the decision to close the Medford office.
	I think it is a regrettable decision.
	Nevertheless, it did occur, and I want to wish all of these people well,
	and every single last one of them knows I will type them the best damn letter of recommendation
	they've ever seen in their whole lives.
	All they need do is ask.
	So thank you all.
	Thank you all for all the years and perhaps I'll have Ramona stop, you know, get on the radio here a little later and say a word or two to you in goodbye.
	So here's what we're going to do.
	Tonight, for all these years that I've been doing this program, we have every year taken predictions.
	Now, I've not done enough of it this year, but tonight shall be devoted entirely to that.
	And I'm going to allow you, only all of you, not guests, but all of you listeners, to make predictions.
	It may well be that I'll be back next year at one of the days in and around the New Year to share what happened with you.
	Perhaps not, and then if not, then I'll pass it on to George.
	But we will record your prediction.
	We do that by number when you call and make a prediction.
	We assign it a number, and then we see how you do during the year.
	Well, it just so happens that from the Bell Family Vault, I have the predictions made for the year 2002, now in about 45 minutes, ending in the Mountain Time Zone.
	And we will, in a moment, begin to peruse some of those predictions and see how you did.
	Now, it doesn't look too good as far as I can see on the first page.
	Well, there's a few, but, you know, not too good on the first page.
	There are a total of, and I'll try and read as many of them as I can, I'll try and get through all of them actually, but there's 123 of them that were made.
	That's quite a number, so we'll have to go racing through them as the program continues, and I certainly will take your prediction for 2003.
	It's gonna be a happenin' year!
	It really is gonna be a happenin' year, folks.
	and uh... so this is your one opportunity to get it but the only don't send them an email don't send them on fast blast don't send them in any other way the only way we take them is on the air when they're made on the air they are duly recorded there is no hocus pocus going on you stick your neck out take your chances get assigned a number and then either it happens or it doesn't but everybody gets to hear it either way The website, for a moment.
	Artbell.com.
	Keith Roland has been with me for more years than I can count.
	There with me all night long, taking incredible photographs and stuff that we find, and tonight is no... the last night is no exception.
	It was some time ago that somebody sent me... I'll just describe it.
	These things happen to me.
	They sent me an email.
	And said, Art, um, I shouldn't, I probably should not be giving this to you.
	Uh, but here it is.
	I'm anonymous, and so I destroyed the email.
	And he sent me an MPEG of a helicopter crash.
	I don't know, uh, what carrier this would be, or what ship, I have no idea.
	But it is a very extremely dramatic helicopter crash, and it's under what's new right now, it's video, you can see it, video, helicopter crash.
	Click on that.
	And it's a pretty big tragedy.
	I don't know when it occurred.
	Perhaps it was in the headlines.
	Perhaps not.
	But it's pretty awful.
	Hopefully the people in that chopper lived to tell the story.
	I don't know.
	It looks as though they might have.
	They certainly might have.
	They were hopefully rescued.
	You could see people rushing to the edge of the carrier after this A chopper went off into the sea, and so I'm sure the rescue efforts were immediate, although that is not apparent in the video.
	It's very short.
	But it's an incredible video.
	It's at artbell.com.
	And then one more thing.
	We've put together a CD, actually a set of CDs, which memorialize this website.
	This website was one of the very first in America to be combined in the manner we did with a talk show, simply because the kind of material that we have here is difficult enough to explain to you with words.
	It's a little easier when you're able to see, you know, actually see what I'm talking about.
	When I can put something up there and say, here, it's a ghost photograph.
	It looks like a ghost to me or whatever.
	Here it is.
	Take a look.
	And so it was an obvious adjunct to the radio program, and it has been an invaluable tool to this radio program, as I'm sure Coast to Coast AM will be for George.
	Just absolutely invaluable because, frankly, the things we talk about here are kinda strange, right?
	So if you can put a photograph up of strange, then it's a little easier on the person trying to describe what's going on.
	Well, You can imagine, we've collected a lot of photographs and information over the years, and we're going to try and take the very best part of it and put it on CD-ROM for you.
	And the opportunity to buy that collection is going to be over at 2 a.m.
	At 2 a.m., in other words, you've got a little over, what, three and a half hours?
	A little over three and one half hours To get up there and get that CD ordered.
	They will not accept orders after that.
	The website goes down.
	Kaboom!
	At 2 a.m.
	Pacific Time.
	A little over three and a half hours.
	Gone, gone, gone.
	Really gone.
	Now, people might keep their eye on the website, though it will be gone.
	Who knows?
	Maybe one day I'll...
	Who knows what I'll do with it.
	Maybe I'll make it a ham radio site or something.
	I have no idea.
	I thought of that.
	You know, that's my big hobby.
	So I might do that, or I might do something else with it.
	I have no idea.
	But for now, we're going to point it toward the new URL, Coast to Coast AM, so that people coming to my website will automatically become forwarded and get used to the new website.
	But eventually, I have that URL.
	I own it.
	I'm going to keep it alive, keep it registered at the very least, and probably go into coast-to-coast AM for a period of time, and then who knows, maybe a hamsight, maybe something else, but we'll see.
	It's one of those ponderables of life.
	In a moment we'll take a very quick look at what's going on in the world, and it's a pretty happening night, and then We will begin the process of predictions.
	But whatever you do, if you've not yet ordered those CDs, I'm not kidding when I say you have three and a half hours, plus a little, to do it, and after that you can't.
	It will all be shut down.
	So, if you want to order, get up to artbell.com right now.
	This is a very special CD.
	I will be signing the full sets, some of the others as well, uh, autographing them, and this is your last, literal last chance.
	No, people think these offers go on and on.
	They don't.
	I think this is a real collectible.
	I mean, this really is something.
	In fact, all of these staff members and everybody else is getting a copy.
	And I think it's a gigantic keepsake, as well as a big informational tool.
	So, in three and a half hours, that offer ends.
	All you can do is go to the website and order it right now at www.artbell.com.
	Three and one half hours.
	plus a little...
	...and counting.
	Sound of thunder.
	Well, alright, we've covered the fact that New Year's is coming, 2003.
	three on the way well so i go
	uh... let's look at a little bit of what else is going on showing
	a president president bush has said that any further attack uh... by saddam
	hussein or any terrorist ally would quote cripple our economy and quote
	offering new justification for a potential war against iraq even though
	by said korea's nuclear ambitions can be curbed without military conflict.
	Very interesting, huh?
	So, I guess the President must presume that The Koreans will just say, OK, Mr. President, we're going to disassemble whatever we've got.
	We're not really going to use these fuel rods.
	They're already starving to death up there, so I don't know what you'd do to the Koreans to get them to give it up.
	No idea.
	There is an Al-Qaeda link suspected in the Yemen slayings.
	Interrogators suspect the man accused of killing the American missionaries at a Baptist hospital may have ties to Al-Qaeda.
	FBI agents are expanding their search for a group of foreign-born men, five of them, that they believe may have crossed into the U.S.
	illegally from Canada with false IDs.
	And, of course, the fear is terrorism.
	So I guess up to this hour I don't have any news indicating they've been located, so everybody stay at alert level one.
	An infantry division from Georgia have been dispatched to the Persian Gulf as part of the military's prep for the war with Iraq.
	The troops from the 3rd Infantry Division Mechanized received the Prepare to Deploy orders earlier in the week.
	And as I mentioned to you, stocks have sort of pooped out here at year's end, making it a third straight losing year for stocks.
	The longest such streak, by the way, in case you keep track of this kind of thing, since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the White House.
	Can you imagine that?
	The longest losing streak Three years in a row for the market since Franklin D Roosevelt.
	All right.
	Predictions.
	Let me see.
	Prediction one made last year.
	Two nuclear events would occur.
	Bonk.
	That's a bong, definitely.
	Two, that Greater China Corporation would be above 75 by April 15th.
	I have no idea whether that's true or false.
	I'll leave that one blank.
	Number three, Planet X. Info released on Planet X. Well, yes, of course, but from mainstream science, no.
	So I'm going to give it a bong.
	That'll make people angry, but I mean, really, from mainstream... Well, you know what?
	There was the ABC story.
	I've changed my mind.
	Ding, ding, ding, ding.
	Number four, that Wormwood would happen.
	That's a big bong.
	Number five, there would be a depression in Europe.
	I'm going to ding that one tentatively.
	In fact, we're really almost having a worldwide depression right now.
	Number six, that the U.S.
	would be in depression by May 31st, 2002.
	That gets a tentative ding.
	A lot of people are saying it may be a double dip recession.
	Uh, and even though the experts are not yet using the word depression, it sure as hell feels like it out there.
	Anyway, we're gonna pause here at the bottom of the hour.
	There are the first six predictions.
	Not bad, actually.
	Three dings.
	I was being a little liberal with them, I admit, but congratulations.
	we'll be right back the
	the the
	journey.
	We'll take us on a ride Filled with the longing Searching for the truth Will we make it till tomorrow?
	Will the sun shine on you?
	Midnight in the desert, I'm a less than, ooh a less than lady.
	Call Art Bell in the kingdom of Nigh from west of the Rockies at 1-800-9-1-800.
	East of the Rockies, 1-800-825-5033.
	First time callers may reach Art at 1-775-727-1222.
	East of the Rockies, 1-800-825-5033.
	First time callers may reach out at 1-775-727-1222.
	And the wildcard line is open at 1-775-727-1295.
	To reach out on the toll free international line, call your AT&T operator and have them
	Listen to the words very carefully.
	0903 listen to the words very carefully Midnight in the desert and there's wisdom in the air
	I've been looking for the answer All my life I've found you there
	As the world we live in quittance I'll be eating all the signs
	Have we lost our intuition?
	Are we running out of time?
	Midnight in the desert You know who this is, right?
	Ooh, I love you.
	This is that incredible woman back in Music City named Crystal Gale.
	Crystal Gale sang this song for me quite some time ago.
	Came out here to the desert and handed it to me and said, here, listen to this.
	And the more I've listened, the more I've understood exactly what it means to me and the things I believe.
	And guess what?
	Here is Crystal Gale.
	Crystal, welcome to the program.
	It's great to be with you.
	Gosh, it's good to have you back on the air again.
	It's good to hear your voice.
	Oh, it's great to hear you.
	Listen, you know, this record, this song, it began to mean more, and of course, music does that to you as time goes on, but it meant more, and it meant more, and it meant more to me, and I would, at the end of each week of broadcasts, that would be the way I would end the broadcast, by playing that entire record.
	Well, you know, you and your show inspired so much for this song.
	Thank you.
	You know, this song definitely means a lot to me and I love singing it.
	I love the feel of it and what you can take.
	I have heard from time to time in concerts that you've been singing this.
	Oh, yes.
	I love it.
	It's totally awesome and As I say, not just the tune, but the song.
	There's such deep meaning in it for me, and it hit me like a brick as time went on.
	Sometimes I'm a little slow, but boy did it hit me, Crystal.
	Yikes!
	Well, you know, it's a song that, well, you show.
	I mean, it means a lot to people.
	It has meant so much to so many different people that I've talked to through the whole The whole country, you know, so I know I mean, that's what the song meant to me.
	That's what you showed it.
	That's what it came out.
	We're all searching for something.
	Yes, we are.
	And and I you know, I mean, it's just so dead right all the way through.
	We may be moving too quickly.
	We are in kind of a quickening, aren't we?
	Oh, yes, definitely.
	Think how the world has changed.
	And the things we are concerned about today versus what we were concerned about when we were young.
	Oh, I know.
	And you know, you read about what the weather's doing all over the world and what the flooding that hasn't happened in years and years and years.
	And you think, well, you know, I think your book is coming true.
	It is indeed coming.
	And by the way, that book, Global Superstorm, is about to be a movie.
	I'm excited.
	I am, too.
	That's really neat.
	Hey, you haven't cut your hair, have you?
	No, not yet.
	I've been inching it back.
	Don't cut your hair!
	It's the same thing I tell Ramona.
	Don't you cut your hair!
	I love long hair, and you're the queen.
	You know, it was just something I started with.
	I had long hair as a kid.
	Well, you know, first, my mother always kept my hair really, really, really short.
	Because she worked and she couldn't take care of it.
	So, you know, she'd send me off to school or my sisters would and, you know, they wouldn't comb it or anything.
	So she kept it short so it'd look halfway decent because she wasn't there.
	She was a nurse and she'd work the midnight shift a lot.
	So, you know, when I could grow my hair, I wanted hair to put in a ponytail.
	So that's why I have long hair.
	Well, I cannot tell you how I appreciate everything you've done.
	Your visits out here, the song, my gosh, Crystal, thank you.
	On behalf of everybody who's enjoyed it, and believe me, you know I get a million requests for that song.
	Well, you know, it's a way of saying thank you to you, because I've enjoyed your show, and you know, like I said, there's so many people that their heart is broken that the show is not going to be, you're not going to be there.
	So, but I know we go on Well, I'm excited for you.
	a higher calling. We do, we do and you know the old one door closes another door opens
	and lead me on all the way through another door already. So my life will be busy and
	full and rich and I'm looking forward to the next chapter.
	Well I'm excited for you and I'm going to miss this part but I know it will be rewarding
	in others. But I just wanted to wish you a happy new year.
	And the very same to you.
	It's already the new year there, isn't it?
	Yes, it is in Nashville.
	It came in safely, I trust?
	Yes, everything went well.
	Super.
	And I hope it does in your ear, too.
	Okay, good night, Crystal, and knock-a-bye.
	Just good night, and thank you so much.
	Oh, good night to you.
	Good night.
	Thank you.
	What a sweet, sweet, sweet lady.
	That's Crystal Gale.
	And she has the prettiest, longest hair you've ever seen in your whole life.
	We've had, I think I've had various photographs of Krystal up from time to time, and oh my goodness.
	See, she just, she trims what she has to so she doesn't trip.
	That's how long Krystal's hair is.
	Alright, let me review a few more predictions made for 2002, or I'll never get through them.
	Number seven, that President Bush would be out of office by mid-year bonk.
	That was a hopeful prediction, I suppose, on somebody's part.
	Let's see, Dr. Kaku becomes the next Carl Sagan.
	Well, perhaps not as nationally recognized yet as being in that spot, but I'm digging that one because he sure is.
	He's the closest thing to Carl Sagan we've got right now.
	Number nine, I'm going to be liberal, give you guys the benefit of the doubt.
	Number 9, that a North Pole civilization will be found.
	Bong.
	Wrong.
	Number 10, that the S&P 500 will go up at least 208.
	I think that's a bong.
	I don't think much good happened in the markets, but I could be wrong.
	If I'm wrong on these, I stand to be corrected.
	Number 11, That there would be suicide bombers in Times Square at the New Year.
	An obvious bonk.
	Thank God.
	Number 12, that America will become isolationist.
	Well, you know what?
	Ding, ding, ding.
	I'm going to give that one a ding.
	America certainly has become considerably more isolationist in many ways since 9-11.
	Number 13, that more visible angels would begin to appear.
	That's an interesting one, isn't it?
	More visible angels.
	I'm not sure how to treat this one.
	There's been a definite increase in UFO sightings and all things... I'm gonna give it a ding.
	Ding ding ding!
	I think that has occurred.
	Number 14, that we would get a new energy source.
	Bonk.
	We have not.
	Number 15, that Barry Sanders would un-retire.
	That is so close to a ding!
	You know, the Raiders could have had Barry, but they were foiled.
	And Barry Sanders was all set to un-retire after the Raiders' previous victory.
	And he got hung up, and they wouldn't let him do it, so it's got to be a bonk, but it's so close to a ding.
	Deion Sanders.
	Oh, oh!
	Well, that's a bonk.
	It's still a bonk, right?
	She's going to get that six seconds later.
	I don't think Barry Sanders un-retired.
	Or did they mean Deion Sanders?
	Maybe they meant Deion Sanders.
	Anyway, I think it's a bonk.
	What do I know?
	Number 16, that alternative medicine would become mainstream.
	I don't think so.
	I'm even trying to act in a liberal way.
	I don't think that's occurred.
	Still a lot of people out there going to jail for that kind of thing.
	Bonk.
	China, number 17, China will expand territory.
	Hmm.
	I don't think they did during 2002, so I'm going to give that a bong.
	So those are the first 17, and actually, 1, 2, 3, 4.
	Five, six, six dings.
	That's really not bad.
	Now, these are just sort of predictions being made completely in the blind, and it's not like a 50-50 proposition.
	These are specific things.
	So six hits, I would say, on the first page is pretty doggone good.
	Let us begin taking some predictions for 2003, shall we?
	On the first time caller line, you are on the air.
	Good evening.
	Good evening, Art.
	Where are you?
	This is Jamie, and I'm sitting here in the beautiful Coachella Valley in a Ralph's Shopping Center parking lot, waiting to get on the line.
	On a cell phone?
	Yes, I am.
	All right.
	I'm going to give you an opportunity to make the number one prediction.
	I think it's a doozy here.
	I think we'll be announcing a manned mission to Mars.
	That's a pretty good one.
	I hope you're right.
	I hope you're right.
	You know, I really do.
	Do you think that if we went to Mars, that the things that Richard Hoagland has been observing, the cities that appear to be below the surface, the significance of the face on Mars, other things of that sort, would suddenly be known to the world as a result of a mission to Mars?
	Would they keep it secret?
	I just think, well, to tell you the truth, I believe it's already been occupied.
	You do?
	I found out, I find that back in, I believe in 93, or in 89 when the Russians launched Forbis 1 and Forbis 2.
	Yes.
	And there was some footage that those things Well, I guess.
	The way they just said it, they were destroyed.
	One of them actually had footage, sir, I think you're referring to this, of a gigantic object headed, and just prior to the destruction of the satellite, it saw an object headed straight for it.
	That's a natural fact.
	So it may well be that Mars is occupied.
	All right.
	And then when the Americans launch something to Mars, And they said that there was some type of malfunction from the control center.
	Um, I just find that hard to believe, myself.
	There's individual people who press individual buttons for just one thing only, and they're assigned to one thing only and not many other things.
	Yeah, well that's right.
	Thank you very much for the call.
	And there's the oops factor, you know.
	You pressed what button?
	Actually, that did occur a couple of times.
	Alright, we will be right back.
	Oh, this is very nice.
	Would you look who's on the line?
	All the way from up in the Seattle area, it's my old friend Peter Davenport.
	Hey, Peter.
	Good evening, Art.
	Good evening.
	And how nice to hear your voice again.
	This is quite a consequential evening.
	It is.
	Seeing you depart this program after so many very successful years.
	I think if all could be You probably deserve the Nobel Prize for what you've done over recent years.
	Oh, that's very kind of you.
	We're all going to miss you up here in Seattle.
	I'm at a party with a bunch of UFO folks, fittingly.
	We're all talking about the program and the fascinating guests you've had on and how generous you have been with the UFO community.
	You know, Peter, it's been a hell of a ride.
	I really mean that.
	You know, the people in broadcasting Who have had careers as long as I've had at the national level, you could count on one hand.
	There's just not been that many in modern times and I've really had an extremely long and wonderful career.
	You have indeed.
	I don't know if you've had a chance to look at the letter I faxed down to you tonight, but for my money, Art, you've set the high watermark in this industry, and you've carved the biggest initials of anyone in the tree of broadcast.
	It's been a fascinating ride, and from the standpoint of a UFO investigator, on behalf of all of us investigators, and on behalf of all those people interested in the UFO phenomenon, I say thank you.
	I don't think there's been a person who's ever lived on this planet Who has given enough, or given as much rather, to the American people on the subject of ufology as you have through your program.
	That is so kind of you.
	Alright, since I have you here and we're doing predictions, let me put you on the line, Peter.
	What do you think 2003 is going to be like in ufology?
	Are there hints it's going to be a big year?
	Well, I seem to be one of only very few UFO investigators who rarely, if ever, make predictions.
	A point I often make in a jocular sense at conventions is I'm one of the few who do not see future events clearly.
	But if the reports that have come to us over the last year or even two years are any fair measure, the UFO phenomenon is heating up and it is now only a question of time Before somebody will get a UFO clearly on videotape, and the government will no longer be able to deny the fact, and the American press, which has done so well at ignoring it, will no longer be able to do so.
	That is my opinion.
	You really think we could do you really think that we could get a piece of video so undeniably
	a UFO or not of this world that it would bring the kind of
	disclosure that we've all been waiting for Could we really get a tape that good, or are we in a day and age where it's so digital that nobody, or the people that don't want to believe it still will not believe it, no matter how good it would be?
	Yeah, it's a reasonable question.
	Actually, many people pose that to me in the field of UFO research.
	And as a consequence, I've devoted a great deal of thought to this.
	What we really need is just a handful of people across the country who have not only digital camcorders mounted on, let's say, a shoulder-mount camera-type device, but one that is mounted together with a film-type camera, either 8mm or 16mm.
	Once we have that, we have not only the digital image, which would be high-resolution, but celluloid images as well.
	Then we're going to have evidence that will be, in my judgment, undeniable.
	In fact, I think it has happened on a few occasions, but the American press, being what they are, have been very successful in ignoring this phenomenon.
	If we did have the real McCoy, undeniably, somehow, the real McCoy, and all of that came true, as unlikely as I think that may be, but let's say it did.
	What do you estimate the reaction of the American public, specifically the American, the world obviously, but specifically the American public would be?
	It's very difficult to know for sure, but frankly I think, thanks largely to your program, I don't think they would be shocked by it.
	I think they would be intrigued, I think they would be interested.
	Just the way they are when there are major scientific breakthroughs that are announced through the news media.
	For example, the recent cloning claim by the Raelians.
	Yes.
	People find it to be of interest for several days running.
	Once they've listened to it on a number of occasions, they get accustomed to it.
	You make a good point.
	You make a very good point.
	And it may be that maybe part of the underlying mission of this program, and or why it was allowed to flourish in the manner it was, was to prepare people for something of this magnitude.
	That has occurred to me many times, Art, and it's part of what makes me say that
	there's been no human being who's lived on this planet who has made a greater contribution to the field of topology
	and UFO research than Art Bell.
	Well, that's very kind.
	What about Peter Davenport?
	What will Peter Davenport do forward from this moment?
	Are you going to stay in ufology, squarely planted?
	What's going to happen?
	I'm afraid I regret to have to report I probably will.
	There are some days when I wish I'd never heard of a hotline Dedicated to taking UFO reports, but I think I am hooked.
	Intellectually hooked.
	It's like radio, Peter.
	It really is.
	You see, you never get out of radio.
	You never get out of ufology either.
	I mean, what are you going to do?
	Start casting your eyes to the ground and stop looking up?
	I don't think so.
	I don't think so either.
	It is the ultimate question, ultimate scientific question.
	Do we live in a universe?
	Do we live in a galaxy that has other intelligent life?
	I think the clear-cut answer to that one is we almost certainly do.
	In fact, just a couple of months ago, Seth Shostak, who has been on your programs at times with the SETI Project, started a talk-off at the University of Washington by saying, by asking the audience, he posed a question to the audience.
	Very quickly.
	How many of you think there's intelligent life here?
	About 60% of them said yes.
	Even he agreed with that.
	Well, that's quite an admission for Seth.
	Listen, brother, I want to thank you for calling in.
	I thank you, Art, and again, thanks for years of excellent coverage on this field.
	You've got to take care, my friend.
	Good night and good luck.
	Good luck.
	It's coming on, all right.
	We're going to take a break here at the Coffee Hour.
	We'll try and get better about reading the predictions and taking predictions, I promise.
	From the high desert, roaring through the night time like a freight train, this is Coast to Coast AM.
	When you remember that day, it's only good when you remember that day.
	You don't come easy.
	You know it don't come easy.
	Custom made shoes if you want to sing the blues.
	And you know it don't come easy.
	You don't have to shout or bleep about, you can even play their beats
	Forget about the past and all your sorrows The future will flash, it will soon be your tomorrow
	You know something?
	You really ought to listen to that again.
	Listen to that part again.
	Very carefully.
	Because it's... It won't last.
	Tomorrow is today, and so it really does happen, folks.
	This is my last program.
	And soon it will be your tomorrows as well.
	And so, I think what you need to do is, as best you can, live for today.
	Alright, I better go racing through these or we're not gonna make it.
	Number 18, made last year.
	China and U.S.
	to go to war by July.
	A bonk.
	I have so much I can say about these, but you know, I better do it fast.
	Number 19, there would be a biological attack at the Winter Olympics.
	Bonk.
	20, that there would be another plane blown up.
	I believe That's a bonk.
	Now, they took a shot at one with some missiles, but terrorism?
	I don't think so, bonk.
	21.
	The Catholic Church to Resurge.
	I believe that's a bonk.
	The scandals continue.
	Number 22, and number 23, made by two people in a row, that by July there would be a great revival in spiritual matters.
	I'm not sure how to score that one.
	I'm going to give it a bonk.
	Give it a ding and a bonk.
	I don't know.
	Number 24.
	A vast increase in UFOs and abductions.
	And I believe that's a ding.
	That's number 24.
	I'm going to say ding.
	There is certainly a vast increase in UFO sightings.
	25.
	That there would be a near-Earth asteroid detected.
	That's a definite ding.
	There were a couple of those.
	Number 26, that Ellen DeGeneres would take over the Tonight Show.
	I think that's a bonk, right?
	She's not there.
	Number 27, that it would actually be a calm, ho-hum year.
	I'm giving that one a bonk.
	There was nothing calm about 2002.
	Number 28, there would be a disaster in Mexico and the border would close between the US and Mexico.
	Bonk.
	There might have been a disaster.
	I don't believe the border closed.
	Number 29, George Bush to lead us to prosperity!
	Bonk.
	Sorry, George.
	Number 30.
	Israel will find the Ark of the Covenant.
	And I believe that is clearly a bonk.
	You know, a lot of people think it's up there on Ararat, but I don't think anybody, you know, brought any boards back yet. 31.
	Uh, Russia and the U.S.
	would cooperate more fully.
	I think that's clearly a ding.
	Certainly we are doing that.
	Uh, number 32, the Lord returns next year.
	Well, if he's back, he hasn't said anything yet, so I'm going to tentatively give that a bonk.
	Uh, number 33, that prosperity would be right around the corner!
	Bonk.
	Not this corner.
	Third year in a row of down market.
	Number 34, More hackers would be busted.
	Well, yeah, ding ding ding, sure, they always bust hackers.
	Number 35, there would be more babies born in June of 2002.
	That's a big ding ding ding, and that comes from the 9-11 business.
	People wanted to get closer together, and when they did, they made babies.
	Number 36, that Scientology would decline.
	I'm not sure how to treat that one.
	I think it's a bonk.
	I think Scientology is probably still doing alright.
	Number 37, that by the end of the year there would be strip searches going on.
	Well, I don't know what they meant by that.
	There are always strip searches.
	I'm going to give it a ding.
	I mean, everything is tightened up, certainly.
	Number 38, music to become music again!
	Bonk!
	With a few exceptions, a few notable exceptions.
	Sorry.
	Not, not... You know, some of this obviously is subjective, right?
	But a lot of what I hear today I would not call music.
	Number 39, a Bush drinking revealed.
	Now, I think here they mean the president of drinking would be revealed.
	That's a big bonk.
	However, there was a Bush or two that...
	But we won't count that because I think they meant the president.
	Number 40, and then I'll stop and we'll go to the phones and take more predictions.
	I'm never going to get that many in.
	I can see clearly now.
	Number 40, there would be nuclear incidents involving water.
	In other words, no doubt cooling water.
	And I believe, I hope, that's a bonk.
	That could be a ding, but I'm going to put it down as a bonk.
	So you didn't do too well in this particular series.
	All right.
	Prognosticators, if you're ready, we now continue.
	East of the Rockies, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hey Art, how you doing?
	I'm doing alright, sir.
	Where are you?
	I'm Rick and I'm calling, listening to 1510 WLAC on Nashville, Tennessee.
	Oh, what a monster of a radio station.
	Yes, sir?
	My prediction, what number are we on now?
	Two.
	Okay, great.
	My prediction is that Richard Hoagland, using the Data Equality Act, We'll successfully challenge NASA and namely the Mars Odyssey Themis Imaging Team in a court of law.
	I can't write all this down.
	Boil this down to Richard C. Hoagland.
	What?
	He will get new images released of Mars that Themis Imaging Team has been holding back.
	Okay.
	Alright.
	I think you're probably Right.
	I think this is going to be a ding.
	Sounds to me like it's going to be... Hey, can I ask you a question?
	Yes.
	Have you ever heard about how the pilot episode of The Lone Gunman was a story about how a plane was going to hit the World Trade Center?
	No.
	There's like a video that's floating around on the internet.
	It's like, I think it's the trailer, the promo trailer for the show, and it's really eerie to see it.
	No.
	There were a number of things like that that got cancelled, and of course a lot of the series and programs that used the Trade Center as almost a, you know, a mark at the beginning of their show, that all got erased, and there were some things that seemed, from a cinematographic point of view, I think they all sort of just quietly went away.
	So that may well be true.
	I appreciate the call, sir.
	Okay, thank you.
	Right, take care.
	And again, I would ask that those of you that call do not make this into a long kiss goodnight here, and I acknowledge and I thank the thousands upon thousands of you that have written to me and have said such very nice things.
	For the most part, 99% have written very nice things.
	Thank you so very much.
	Acknowledging all of that, Without having to do it individually and having this be such a, sort of, I don't want it to be a sappy long kiss goodnight if we can avoid that.
	So far you're doing all right.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Mr. Bell?
	That would be me.
	Thank you very much.
	This is John calling from Chula Vista, California.
	Yes, John.
	And thank you Thank you for choosing George to accompany us.
	You're very welcome.
	I think he's going to do a yeoman's job.
	And so far, the future is looking very enlightened.
	And thank you for opening my mind.
	And Art Bell, the King of Nigh, God bless you, sir.
	And cheers.
	And my prediction is, and I hope it doesn't happen, but I don't know if the Pope's going to hang in there.
	Okay.
	I appreciate your call, sir.
	Thank you very much.
	Well, of course, Pappy's getting pretty feeble, so it could happen at any time.
	Any time you've seen a picture of the Pope lately, you know he's... The man is incredible.
	Absolutely incredible.
	I thought that he was trying to hang on for the millennium.
	The Pope wanted to see and greet the Millennium, and then he would let go.
	And oddly, that did not occur.
	I mean, the Millennium came and went.
	The Pope's still here, feeble as he looks.
	He's still here.
	That man is really hanging on.
	It's like, it's kind of like he's got a reason A reason that goes past the millennium and has yet to occur.
	I wonder if that's occurred to any of you?
	Older people can do that, you know.
	If they have a compelling, dramatic reason to live, they can literally will themselves to live past a point where they otherwise would have.
	Something to bear in mind.
	What do you suppose the Pope is holding out for?
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello, Art.
	Hi.
	This is Scott.
	I'm calling out of Oklahoma City, listening on the XM system.
	OK, Scott.
	Well, you're going to make prediction number four.
	I'm glad I got this one in early, because I have a feeling other people feel this way, too.
	OK.
	What we're about to step into, either with Iraq or with Korea, I'm pretty sure that we're going to step into something.
	My prediction is it's going to turn horribly wrong.
	Well, I don't think we're hitting about the right way.
	When you say horribly wrong, why don't you define that and make that the prediction?
	Are you suggesting there might be a world war?
	Yes.
	I think we're going to get involved in something that we don't really want to get involved in.
	It's going to start off something that's just going to get progressively worse and Really get us involved with bigger countries.
	I appreciate your call, sir, and I'll put that down.
	World War now.
	I'm going to say this one more time, and what I say now may turn out to be inaccurate in that there may be some information forthcoming, but it seems to me that our president has not yet outlined sufficiently the specific danger posed to us by Iraq.
	To justify sending our young men and women to fight and, no doubt, die in that country.
	He has mentioned, of course, weapons of mass destruction, and that's really all that I've heard, and if that is true, then what about Korea, which has announced they're kicking out the UN inspectors, they're breaking the seals, they're taking the fuel rods, they're making bombs!
	Nuclear Bombs.
	They've announced what they're going to do.
	They've got the means, and they've got the will, no doubt, to use them.
	And so that would strike me as a far more critical situation with regard to our safety than what has thus far been outlined with respect to Iraq.
	And I'm not suggesting that we should not go to war against Iraq.
	I'm simply suggesting the President has not made the case to all of us, all of you, Uh, sufficiently, yet, or really I can't speak for you, I can only speak for myself, and I have not heard enough specifics so that I would be able to justify sending off young men and women to die.
	Thank God I don't have to do that.
	A wild card line?
	You're on the air, hello.
	Good evening, sir.
	How are you tonight?
	I'm all right, sir.
	Where are you?
	Yes, this is Dean calling from Tampa, Florida.
	All right, Dean.
	Well, your comments actually follow up what my prediction is, is with North Korea and Iraq, I think we might actually see Iraq being delayed because if Bush is thinking a war on two fronts, If we start in Iraq, North Korea actually might start to accelerate.
	But my prediction for 2003, sir, is I think North and South Korea might actually unify.
	And I think I see a date of perhaps November of 2003.
	We might actually see unification, which will then start a new version of a Cold War, which hopefully, and God please, let's not take it to the next folks.
	Hopefully we'll get the wisdom and the clarity.
	When you say North and South Korea unifying, under what kind of political system pray tell i mean in the in the north you've got hardcore starving communists in the south you've got uh...
	Hardcore, pretty well-off capitalists.
	So, exactly how do you imagine this unification to occur?
	Well, I see China stepping in, because China is a major trade with North Korea, and in fact that's one of the things that might actually prevent us from going in.
	North Korea is China, and I might see them play a part in that, because economically, the almighty dollar might actually...
	say you say take that line away the uh...
	the division so i do see your point for is that the two extremes but uh...
	unification might be coming as we just saw a protest of over a hundred thousand
	people in south korea again united states and uh...
	and that wave starts to go sir i i i i've got less americans i hope our young
	men and women out there don't have to fight a war like that uh... you've obviously been in the military
	uh... no actually i haven't but my family has and i uh... i In fact, I'd like to thank you, sir, for the clarity that you provided, not only myself, because when you had mentioned the quickening back in the 90s, this is part of it, sir.
	And the military is something I feel very strong for, because a lot of my family members fought and died for the freedoms that we enjoy today.
	I appreciate your call more than you'll know.
	Thank you very much.
	Uh, Profford, the possibility of that man being in the military was the number of sirs that he uttered during his call.
	Uh, usually when you're, uh, I did that for years.
	I called everybody sir.
	After I got out of the Air Force, it's a habit very difficult to break.
	And usually when you hear that many sirs, you're talking either to a current military person or a former, recently, fairly recently, former military person.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello, Mr. Bell.
	Yes, sir.
	Nice to speak with you finally.
	And you as well.
	Where are you?
	I'm calling from Indianapolis, Indiana.
	Indianapolis.
	All right.
	I have three actual predictions.
	No, no, no.
	No, no, no.
	Only one.
	Give me your best shot.
	One.
	I'll go with the one.
	I think that China will have a manned spaceflight by the end of 2003.
	China launches manned spaceflight.
	That's entirely possible.
	Uh, they could really, I think, do it right now.
	Well, just, I think it was last week they, uh, tested a capsule.
	Yeah, I think China is indeed moving in that direction, so your prediction, I think a pretty safe one, is number six.
	Thank you, sir.
	Alright, duly registered.
	Thank you very much.
	Now China, I think technologically could do that right now.
	They've been launching satellites for some time.
	So they probably have the technology.
	Much of it, no doubt, that has come directly from us.
	On the international line, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi, this is Christina from Seoul, South Korea.
	Oh my gosh, Christina from Seoul, South Korea.
	Hey, Christina, how you doing?
	I'm great, how are you?
	I'm alright.
	We were just talking about Korea, and since you live in Seoul, South Korea, what do you think about all of this big mess with what the North is saying right now?
	What do you think is going to happen?
	It really is a mess, and I guess that the big conflict right now is, I think, within the South Korean people, because some of the Most of the younger generation, they actually want to try to unite with the North, but then there's still the older generation that can remember the battle.
	You know what I've always thought, Christina?
	I've always seen the South Koreans who are famous for having riots and throwing Molotov cocktails, you know, a lot of the students who want unification.
	They should be very careful what they wish for, but they're so violent about it that a lot of times I thought, you know what?
	They ought to just let them all mass up there by the border.
	And then just wait for the right moment, open the border, and let them all go north!
	I know, I know.
	That's what we're saying.
	Actually, my boyfriend's in the military here, too.
	And he's like, you know, all the military people, we want to go home.
	We want to go back to the States, right?
	So we should just let them have their own country back and let North Korea take over.
	And then, yeah, we'll just see where it goes from there.
	How long have you been in Korea?
	Six months.
	Six months.
	What's it like?
	Is that your first trip overseas?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's my first trip.
	Well, I had been to Switzerland before because I have some family there, but it's my first trip to Asia.
	And it's great.
	I'm on a year contract to teach English, but I might end up renewing and staying another year.
	Oh, no kidding.
	I spent ten years of my adult life in the Far East, predominantly on Okinawa, so I'm Very familiar with it.
	It's a gigantic culture shock, and you sound like you're doing very well.
	Teaching English is a great thing to do over there, and a very good job.
	Yeah, yeah, it pays well, too, so that does not hurt.
	All right, you want to give me some sort of official prediction for next year?
	Well, I wanted to, maybe just wishful thinking, but I wanted to predict that North Korea is not going to drop a nuke on us.
	I think that with the talks that are going on, at least officially between the governments, that the South will end up either coming to an agreement with the North, or something, and almost trying to get the U.S.
	out of here.
	I know that when this President was elected, he was elected mostly because of his anti-American sentiment.
	Alright, listen, I've got to go because we're right here at the At the bottom of the hour.
	But thank you.
	Thanks for everything.
	Good night.
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	I tried to reach for you, but you have lost your mind...
	Where are those happy days? They seem so hard to find...
	I tried to reach for you, but you have lost your mind...
	You have lost your mind you
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	Good morning!
	Across the, uh, the world, actually.
	I'm Art Bell, and this is Coast to Coast to Coast to Coast AM.
	We're doing predictions for the year 2003.
	Now, at this time, we're about 24 minutes away.
	We're also reviewing predictions made, uh, Made last year for 2002.
	I'll do a few more of those here in a moment.
	In fact, let me do them now.
	If I don't do them, we'll just never get through.
	There are so many.
	Number 41.
	Movies move toward G ratings.
	Ah, yeah.
	Bonk.
	Well, is that a bonk?
	Or have they?
	Some of these are so subjective.
	In a way, there has been a move toward more... You know, I'm gonna give that a ding.
	Ding!
	Number 42, there would be advances in cloning.
	Oh, big time ding.
	Maybe even cloning itself, with regard to the human.
	Oh, big advances.
	Number 43, Cheney leaves office because of illness.
	Bonk.
	He did not.
	Number 44, that China would take over the entire world.
	Not yet.
	Bonk.
	Number 45, that there would be one single airline only left.
	That's of course not true, so I'm going to give it a bonk, but it is kind of scary because it's moving in that direction.
	Number 46, there would be crop circle communication.
	Well, that's subjective, certainly.
	Well, a ding, ding, ding.
	You know, there certainly has been some communication by crop circle.
	There were some real doozies, weren't there?
	Number 47, that computers become aware.
	Well, mine hasn't.
	And I don't think generally any of them have yet, thank God.
	Number 48, there would be spiritual, that spiritual revolution would occur.
	Well, I think there's been an uptick, but a revolution, I'm going to give that a bonk.
	That's number 48.
	And now, in a moment, back to your predictions for the coming year.
	Now think this through.
	You only get to make one.
	It gets assigned a number, and duly recorded, put in the Bell family vault, and then next year we'll find a way to review them one way or the other for you.
	Either I will, or George will, or whatever.
	And I've got another answer to a... I've got a lot of questions that are coming in by computer, so I'll try and address them as best I can.
	Alright, many people asking, you know, what are you going to do now, Art?
	What's your next project?
	Well, I don't know, I have many things in mind.
	This comes from Anchorage, from Camille in Anchorage.
	Of course, radio is in one's blood, and you don't quit, nor do you retire, in the true sense of the word, from radio.
	I own, along with my beautiful wife, Ramona, KNYE FM here in Pahrump, Nevada, 95.1 in Pahrump, Nevada, 100.1 in Las Vegas.
	That's 100.1 in Las Vegas, parts of Las Vegas, and we are developing this radio station, and we're having a blast!
	Now, it is the dream of most radio guys, you know, and gals.
	A lot of guys.
	To own, someday, a radio station.
	Well, by God, I got to build one from ground zero.
	Mona and I began this project, I don't know, six, seven years ago.
	It took that long.
	And it's a labor of absolute love.
	You know, we probably spent a whole lot more money than we should have on it.
	Did everything just right.
	We just dearly love this radio station.
	So we're going to devote a lot of time to that.
	And we're going to have a lot of fun with it.
	We're going to do that.
	To me, radio is just plain old-fashioned fun.
	So there'll be a lot of that.
	And if you happen to get in the Southern Nevada area and you get a chance, give us a listen.
	95.1 here in Little Pahrump, Nevada.
	It's really quite something.
	I'm very proud of this, very proud of this radio station.
	So it's the dream of a lot of radio people and I got to achieve that.
	You know, I'm very blessed.
	I really did.
	Very blessed.
	I have had, as I said I think a little earlier, a longer national network radio program career than 99.99% of people in radio.
	I mean, that's blessed.
	And then to I'll be able to top it off with owning your own and running your own radio station.
	It's a joint effort, my wife and I. And by the way, I'll let my wife have a word with you after midnight tonight, after the New Year crosses the Pacific Time Zone, an event that'll occur in slightly less than 17 minutes.
	And I'll let her have a word with you.
	She has a beautiful radio voice.
	Absolutely beautiful.
	We both have been, to some degree, stricken with colds, but nevertheless, Her voice remains resonant and absolutely charming, so I'll let her have a word with you after the midnight hour here.
	In the meantime, back to the international line.
	You are on the air, and where are you calling from, please?
	I'm calling from the other corner of Korea, down in the southeast corner in Busan.
	Oh, really?
	Welcome to the program.
	Glad to have you.
	Gee, a couple of Korean calls in a row, that's really something.
	All right.
	Same question for you, sir.
	What do you think about all of this going on now?
	I mean, from the perspective of somebody right there.
	Well, that sort of ties in with my prediction, but it's pretty much the status quo, really.
	They're sort of escalating a bit, but I think what's happened is the Clinton administration policy was Whatever wild idea that the North comes up with to say, oh, we're doing this, or we're going to develop that, or we're going to turn Seoul into a sea of fire was their threat a while ago.
	The Clinton policy was to give them money to get them to stop whatever hokey idea they had in their head, but it seems that Bush isn't playing that game.
	And so now when they say, we've got nuclear weapons, we're going to build nuclear weapons, money doesn't come their way.
	So now they have to sort of make, so you sort of fluff up the feathers and make some sort of show to show that, well, we're serious about this.
	But I really don't feel any increase in tensions or anything like that here.
	You don't?
	Not really.
	Really, I don't.
	Well, I can tell you the rest of the world is chewing their nails on this one.
	Well, I wonder how much the general media is to blame for that.
	You've always got to have a boogeyman to go after.
	The more boogeymen, the better.
	The more people watch your newscast and read your papers and whatnot.
	That's true.
	So, your prediction then?
	Well, first, just accept my deepest thanks for a decade and a half keeping me entertained, Art.
	Thank you.
	My prediction is all of this will quietly go away within the next few months and absolutely nothing will happen here in South Korea.
	So Korea blows over instead of up.
	I hope so, Art.
	This is where I am, and this is where I hope to stay.
	I understand, and I'm sure you hope the geography remains there so that can be.
	Number eight is your prediction, my friend.
	Yes, sir.
	Have a good life, Art.
	Right.
	Thank you very much, and take care.
	And remember, if I am invited to do so, I will... This is very important.
	I will, from time to time, come back.
	And, uh, and fill in for George.
	Nobody, I can assure you, and George will, uh, find this out eagerly as he may be, uh, starting, uh, this job.
	And I, I wish him very well.
	He will find out very quickly that, uh, doing an all-night show, uh, having a five-night, uh, per week deadline, and it's my understanding he's going to take the show back to five hours, as, uh, I had it for so many years.
	That's a very serious undertaking.
	By the way, congratulations, George, on the choice to take it back to five hours.
	Bless you.
	I think that's a wonderful choice, and I had heard that beginning, I guess, tomorrow's show, he's going to take the show back to five hours, so that's great.
	He's going to need a break.
	Otherwise, you get psychologically twisted into a pretzel because of the pressure.
	It is a pretty high-stress affair.
	And so, um, he's going to need a break, and I certainly will be available, uh, should he request me to be here.
	Uh, he's gonna need a little bit of, uh, time every now and then.
	Everybody does.
	And so, uh, should the occasion arise, I will be here guest hosting.
	So this is not a, you know, a full-fledged goodbye.
	It's just sort of a semi-fledged goodbye.
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Where are you?
	I am Suzy and I live in the Midwest.
	Suzy.
	Okay.
	Suzy, number nine is going to be your prediction number.
	What's it going to be?
	Okay.
	I see that this coming year, 2003, is going to really change history and everything very, very drastically.
	I see an attempt To invade the United States, and I say an attempt because they're going to try, but they're not going to succeed.
	But, um, I also see us as becoming an occupied country.
	And when I mean occupied is, um, did you ever see the movie Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze?
	Oh, yes.
	Okay.
	Well, I see us as being, having free land and occupied land, but it's our own government that's doing the occupation.
	I see the martial law.
	I see the looting.
	I see the control.
	All of this actually could occur if a series of terrorist attacks were to occur, for example.
	I mean, obviously things are already tighter.
	Another terrorist attack, even our president has said, would sink our economy.
	And it probably would, a very serious attack.
	And a series of attacks would Create a monster.
	And that monster would indeed be our own government.
	Right.
	And we're opening up ourselves to an invasion.
	And we're not used to having it here on our homeland.
	We're used to having it everywhere else.
	And I think that it's going to create a chaotic situation for many people who cannot handle this.
	Who do you think would invade?
	Well, There's a very fine line between who it would be.
	I'm thinking either the Chinese or the Koreans and I'm feeling they'll come from the South and the North.
	It won't be a single place that they come in at.
	And I think they're already in here and already setting up for their Partners or whatever coming from the outside, yes.
	I've got it.
	All right.
	Thank you very, very much.
	An attempt to invade the U.S.
	I, too, don't think that would be successful, but I do agree that a series of difficulties like additional attacks, biological, chemical, nuclear, whatever, would certainly tank the economy and bring on the monster of control.
	That could certainly occur.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Art Bell?
	Yes.
	Hi, Dollface.
	This is Brynn Marie in San Francisco.
	Oh, my God, Brynn Marie!
	It's been so long!
	I know.
	What have you been doing?
	Oh, all sorts of stuff that involves using the telephone at night so I can't call in.
	I see.
	So, here I am.
	Well, it's great to hear your voice.
	Well, thank you.
	I have an entertainment prediction.
	All right.
	There will be a very popular and well-received album released in 2003, and it's going to have a picture of a gramophone on the cover.
	And ironically enough, it will either be nominated for or win a Grammy Award.
	And that's my prediction.
	You know something.
	No comment.
	Art, thank you for the ride.
	Well, thank you for coming along on it, Bryn.
	All right.
	Great to hear your voice.
	Thank you, sir.
	Take care.
	All right.
	Bye.
	A new album with a gramophone on it.
	Remember that one, folks.
	I think she knows something.
	I mean, obviously, she knows something, right?
	And then she thinks it will win a Grammy.
	Well, that's sticking her neck out a little anyway.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Good morning.
	Good morning.
	Art, we're going to miss you very much.
	Thank you.
	And I want to know, was it your brilliant mind who, the format for this program?
	I don't know if it was brilliant, but yes, it was my mind.
	Fifteen years ago, hon, I was doing a political show like those that you hear, inevitably cluttering the dial from one end to the other, and I was doing the same thing.
	I was doing a political show with different twists.
	I did it a different way because I got bored.
	And finally, frankly, to be honest with you, I got bored with politics altogether.
	And I said, God, you know, I love radio, but I'm getting so damn sick and tired of having to talk about politics for, you know, four or five hours a night.
	I just can't do it anymore.
	There's other things to talk about.
	So I found one.
	That's how it happened.
	Well, thank you.
	And my prediction is that All the calls to Coast to Coast will be screened.
	All calls screened, huh?
	Yes.
	All right, well, your prediction is number 11, duly recorded.
	All right?
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much for the call, and take care.
	All the calls screened.
	Well, that may occur, and if it does, then it does.
	You know, I guess I should probably add here... Well, here comes Ramona with two glasses and only a very tiny bit of champagne in the bottom of the glass.
	That's good, because I still have two hours of radio to do here.
	God, it's a beautiful glass.
	It's like green crystal or something.
	It is green crystal?
	Really?
	I didn't even... That's beautiful.
	Alright, well, anyway.
	Here, take that back and...
	Hold it, and we'll take a midnight picture.
	We always do that, which will be then on the website for two hours.
	And remember folks, the website is closing.
	I have a prediction.
	You have a prediction?
	Is it okay?
	Well, yeah.
	Get close to the mic.
	Okay.
	My prediction is Raiders are going to win the Super Bowl.
	Raiders are going to win the Super Bowl.
	What a game they played with Kansas City on Saturday.
	Man, it was boring.
	It looked like a water park there.
	I'm going to put this down.
	Raiders.
	By the way, Raiders, Raiders, Raiders.
	Two years ago, I got a Raiders Cheerleaders calendar.
	And I really want another one.
	So if anybody in the Raiders organization, we're big Raiders fans here.
	If anybody in the Raiders organization is listening, please, please, please send me another Raiders calendar.
	Because I'm not a jealous type.
	Did you hear that?
	She's not a jealous type.
	They signed it.
	A bunch of the cheerleaders signed it for me.
	It was really cool.
	And of course, I will keep it, but I could use one for 2003.
	Well, sorry about Deion Sanders, but they can do without him.
	Well, you can say all that in a minute.
	You're going on the air after 12 o'clock.
	All right.
	We'll take a picture, too.
	They've got a shot at the Super Bowl, too.
	It's going to be a hell of a playoff year, I'll tell you what.
	West of the Rockies, you are on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Art?
	Yes, that would be me.
	Where are you?
	I'm in Portland, Oregon.
	Portland, all right.
	I have a prophecy.
	Oh, a prophecy?
	This is not a prediction, but a prophecy, eh?
	Yes.
	Can I?
	Yeah, go ahead.
	OK.
	This was written by a very dear friend of mine.
	No, no, no.
	Do not read to me on the air, please.
	If you have a prophecy, just go ahead and tell me about it.
	OK.
	All right.
	Just tell me about it.
	I can't.
	I have to read it.
	It's just a little... No, I don't allow people to read stuff on the air.
	So, if you can't tell me about it, I gotta go.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Can I at least say that Jesus was a transfiguration medium?
	Yes, you may.
	And you can... Yes?
	Okay.
	All right.
	Thank you very much.
	You see, we were about to be read a large script.
	And I don't do that.
	I don't allow people to read.
	I don't allow...
	Uh, a scripture, uh, as a general rule to be read on the air, and I don't allow poems to be read on the air, and I don't allow people to sing on the air either!
	There have been some notable exceptions to all of those, but as a general rule, that's, uh, that's, uh, that is the rule.
	On the international line, without a lot of time, you're on the air.
	Hello, where are you, please?
	Hello?
	Nope, not there.
	Once to the Rockies, you're on the air.
	It's gotta be quick, number 13.
	Well, I'm from Fairbanks, Alaska.
	My name's Malia, and my family and I predict that gold prices will go up to $400.
	Gold to 400 bucks, huh?
	Uh-huh.
	Are you sure enough of that that you're out there buying a little bit of gold?
	No, we're mining it, actually.
	You're mining gold?
	Mm-hmm.
	Now that's cool.
	That's really cool.
	Are you finding it?
	Um, we're finding a little bit, but not a lot, but we're still getting into the rocks and down there, and so my dad dredges, so we're getting there.
	All right.
	Good luck, my dear friend.
	You too.
	Take care.
	Gold to $400.
	That's it.
	Gold to $400, that's it, we'll be back.
	It's been a too long time, with no peace of mind.
	And I'm ready for the times to get better.
	There's a thought for the new year, and it's coming fast.
	I've got to tell you I've been racking my brain Hoping to find a way out
	Don't you love her madly?
	Don't you love her badly?
	Don't you need her badly?
	Don't you love her ways?
	Tell me what you say.
	Don't you love her badly?
	Wanna be her daddy?
	Don't you love her face?
	Don't you love her as she's walking out the door?
	Don't you love her as she's walking out the door?
	Tell me what you say, don't you love her as she's walking out the door?
	All your love, all your love, all your love, all your love, all your love is gone.
	To sing a lonely song of a deep blue tree, seven horses seem to be on the mark.
	Call Art Bell in the Kingdom of Nye from west of the Rockies at 1-800-637-8000.
	First time callers may recharge at 1-775-727-1222.
	East of the Rockies, 1-800-825-5033.
	First time callers may reach out at 1-775-727-1222.
	And the wildcard line is open at 1-775-727-1295.
	To reach out on the toll free international line, call your AT&T operator and have them dial 800-893.
	This is Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell from the Kingdom of Nine.
	It is indeed.
	Hi, everybody.
	We are reviewing predictions made last year held in the Bell Family Vault for 2002.
	We're also making new ones for 2003.
	As many as I'm going to be able to take.
	It's not going to be as many as normal.
	Normally, we devote days to this.
	In this case, just one day.
	But we'll get as many as we can.
	I'm Ardell.
	Stay right where you are.
	Alright, rather than bring Ramona on now, we'll bring her on in about 15 minutes after the bottom of the hour.
	But I do want to call your attention to something pretty cool.
	And this was pure-de-luck.
	This is the second year I've had this kind of luck.
	I guess it has something to do with my beautiful wife.
	Maybe a lot to do with her.
	We set the webcam up, which is on the webpage, which is going to be disappearing very shortly now, in about, well, under two hours now.
	Be sure and get up there.
	You've got less than two hours to order that CD, but go up to my website right now, go to program, and click on Art Bell Studio Cam.
	It's the last night for the Art Bell Studio Cam as well.
	And boy, what a picture!
	This is pretty cool, if I do say so myself.
	My wife and I stole a kiss on camera.
	And there's no way for me to do that.
	It goes every minute.
	But look at this.
	January 1st, 2003.
	The time is stamped at the bottom.
	The time came out to be, are you ready for this?
	00 colon 00 colon 01.
	This was snapped in the first second of the new year.
	And it was pure D dumb luck.
	And it's the second year in a row that I've had this kind of luck.
	It is a pretty cool picture.
	That's at www.arpel.com right now.
	Go to program and then to the webcam and take a look.
	It's a pretty cool picture, if I do say so myself.
	Very cool picture.
	Actually, I'm going to pull that off and that's going to be in the collection.
	So a little under, well, an hour and three quarters to get that memorial CD, commemorative CD of the website, a way to sort of take the website with you.
	That's all the time you have to order it at 2 a.m.
	Pacific Time.
	The orders stop cold.
	On the international line, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Happy New Year, Art.
	Ken in Dexheim, Germany.
	Dexheim, Germany?
	Wow.
	Yeah, Art.
	All right.
	All right.
	Welcome to the program.
	Glad to have you.
	Well, it's great to be here, Art.
	And I just want to thank you personally from the bottom of my heart.
	I'm posting my mysterious ice on your website for a second time.
	Oh, you're the ice guy!
	How in heaven's name does ice do that in a refrigerator?
	It baffles me.
	That's why you are the only person I would send that to.
	Hopefully, somebody would have an answer.
	Well, I don't have it for you yet.
	I'm still asking the question myself.
	This is your opportunity, from all the way over in Germany, to make a prediction, which will be number 14.
	What do you say?
	Okay, Art.
	I predict that one day in 2003, George Noory will conduct a healing segment of the show to heal your back, Art.
	Um... Alright, um... George heals Art's back, huh?
	Alright, I'll put that down here, but I've got a couple of things to say about that.
	Thank you very, very much for the call all the way from Germany.
	And I am going to, I've really already done this, but I'm going to do it again publicly.
	One of the things that I have discovered in this program that is absolutely true, and of course George is going to do whatever he's going to do, it's going to be his show as of very shortly.
	I believe that the mass consciousness experiments that we did on this program worked.
	I mean they absolutely worked.
	It is my hope that George will use extreme caution and will not endeavor to experiment with mass consciousness and directing mass consciousness Until and unless he understands it sufficiently to do so.
	I stopped, as you know, because I think that it's something so powerful, perhaps a power greater than the atomic bomb, a very serious thing.
	And I think that it should not be used, even with what are considered to be the best intentions, because it could go wrong.
	Since we don't understand this power, I understand there are always the best of intentions.
	Heal this.
	Turn that terrible cyclone or hurricane or tornado around or change the weather.
	Do something on a world scale.
	Create world peace or something.
	And I know that I understand that it's well-intentioned.
	But I caution George and I caution all of you to please caution George not to rush into this and willy-nilly begin to experiment with this power that we discovered. I
	caution very heavily against that, but again, people will do what they're going to do. I
	just hope that that's one piece of advice that he takes, absorbs, and considers.
	A wild card line, you're on the air. Hello. Is this me?
	That's you. Hey Art, this is the Grand Master of the Mystical Order of the Declaw Gerbil.
	How are you?
	Oh my God.
	I have a prediction and then just a real brief comment afterwards.
	Sure, your prediction will be number 15.
	okay i predicted it will be revealed uh... that the reason why the bush
	administration is reluctant to give specifics about where we're going to
	attack iraq is because uh... we've given or we gave iraq
	some things that we'd rather not admit back in the eighties uh...
	i i you know i think you're probably right i uh...
	i uh... i i just I hope that we have the cojones to tell the truth, because our president has got to make the people of this country understand why we're going to send our young people off to a war, and I don't think he's sufficiently done that yet, do you?
	No, I don't either, and I think that people have to be realistic about, at a certain time, one thing serves our interest, where at another time it doesn't.
	I think the public opinion is what they're worried about.
	Quite so, quite so.
	Alright, you have a comment?
	Yes, we'd like to make you an honorary member of the mystical order, and it involves an initiation, but we ask that you not eat anything after midnight the day prior to your initiation.
	Goodbye, sir.
	Thanks, Art.
	Goodbye.
	These are the Rockies.
	You're on the air.
	Hello.
	Yes, how are you?
	Well, reasonably well, thank you.
	Well, happy new life, Art.
	We're going to miss you.
	Thank you.
	I have a prediction.
	Yes.
	I think eventually we'll see that the Mexican trucking firms that are going to be roaming our nation now, We'll possibly bring in a terrorist problem from Central America, Chinese influence maybe.
	Certainly, the open borders that we have now, the deal that we have that allows Mexican trucks to come in, is not particularly consistent with the amount of security that I think we all wish we had at our borders, is it?
	No, it's getting real scary right now.
	We thump our fists and declare certain things, but just open the doors and act blind in so many ways.
	Yes.
	Yes, indeed.
	All right.
	Well, I hope your prediction is inaccurate, but it is now registered as number 16.
	Buster the Rockies, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	This is Rick from Jerome, Idaho.
	I'm listening to you on 1310 KLAX.
	Yes, sir.
	And I have a prediction.
	All right.
	R.S.C.
	will be revealed to have written many of the lyrics of the 80s.
	What will?
	R.S.C.
	It's kind of like, I don't know, Nostradamus.
	R.S.C., just remember that, and will be called upon to revive floundering music industry.
	Does that sound good to you, or bad?
	Uh, well, certainly.
	It is blundering.
	Well, it is, and a revived music industry.
	I couldn't hope for anything more.
	I really would like music to come back again.
	So, yes, all right, thank you.
	So, R.S.C.
	wrote lyrics.
	Okay.
	On the international line, you are on the air.
	Hello!
	Hi Art, this is Mad, and I'm calling from Moscow, Russia.
	You are calling from Moscow?
	Yes, I am, sir.
	Wow!
	I think you may be the first call from Moscow on this program.
	I'm certainly glad to have you all the way from Russia.
	Wow!
	Alright, are you interested in making a prediction for the year coming?
	Well, unfortunately, I think there's a lot of bad news for the coming year.
	I think there's Uh, my feeling is that there's going to be some more terrorist attacks in the United States.
	What are you doing in Moscow?
	Well, my husband works for the government of, uh, the federal government, United States.
	Right.
	Oh, I see.
	So you're there as a, um, uh, no doubt a diplomatic dependent of some sort.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Uh, so you think there's going to be more terrorism?
	Uh, what about, what about there in Russia?
	Russia, of course, has suffered its own, uh, Terrorism, the Chechens and so forth.
	Yes, it has.
	There's a number of Chechens here in the country.
	Some of them are here illegally as aliens.
	And that incident that took place at the theater in October?
	Yes.
	That was just a couple of blocks down from my apartment.
	Oh my gosh.
	Yes, it was.
	I heard all the explosions.
	And I went down there a couple of times to see the activities.
	It was very interesting.
	I was in Moscow.
	As a matter of fact, interestingly, I was standing in Red Square, along with my wife, when we visited there, when there was an explosion.
	And it was actually an attempt to kill Yeltsin.
	It was an aborted, not a successful attempt, of course, but they tried to kill him and there was a big explosion.
	That was really something to experience while we were there.
	Have you been to the Kremlin yet?
	Oh, yes.
	We've taken the tour and done all the tourist things.
	We've been here a year now.
	And they were quite busy last night.
	They had a record amount of people turn up at Red Square.
	I can imagine.
	As a matter of fact, I think I saw a shot of it on CNN.
	It was very, very impressive.
	Yes it is.
	They do a lot with fireworks.
	That has been going on all night long.
	It scared my cat.
	I have a Russian blue.
	How do you, what's it like, of course I simply visited Russia, but what's it like living there for an extended period?
	Has Russia become less, Moscow for example, less concerning with regard to crime and that sort of thing, or is it still a big problem?
	Well, you know, like yourself, Art, I grew up during the fifties where we had our idea of what Soviet Russia was like.
	Sure.
	And when you come here now, after 1990, you see a lot of changes.
	And I think that they're becoming better at being more open about what crime activities are going on.
	During the broadcast they had on television here during this theater attack?
	Yes.
	I thought that it was outstanding that the TV stations were able to give a description of what was going on.
	I felt that this was probably the greatest change that I've seen.
	You know, for a long time, and I thought that The change in Russia was a bunch of baloney, that it just wasn't real and that it would be revealed to be not real, but I take it all back and I now believe that Russia is firmly on a course toward freedom and probably eventually economic success.
	They've got a lot of raw materials and they've got a lot of prospects.
	It's going to take time, but I think they're on the right path and apparently you agree with that.
	Yes, the changes are taking place, but I think they're very, very slow.
	They are.
	You have to understand that when you meet the people here, that they've lived for decades under the Soviet government.
	And I think that it's always promising and hopeful to see these changes, and I think it's a wonderful thing.
	But when you meet the people, you have to understand how difficult it was for them for so long.
	Well, I do.
	Listen, I cannot tell you how I appreciate a call all the way from Moscow, and I'm glad you're enjoying the celebration over there, and thank you.
	Well, I'd like to say, also, greetings from Fantastic Forum.
	I listen to you on the Internet because I can't get radio reception, even with my Beijing radio, but we love you, and we wish you a Snob on Golden to you and to Ramona.
	Thank you, sweetheart.
	Take care.
	That's FantasticForum.com, actually.
	It's a website.
	Very good one, too.
	FantasticForum.com, all together.
	FantasticForum.com.
	First time caller on the line, you're on the air.
	Hello!
	This is Art Bell?
	It is!
	Hey, Art, what's up?
	This is Jeremiah from Duluth.
	Hello!
	Ah, boy, I can't believe I got ahold of you.
	Hold on, I gotta turn my radio off.
	Okay, thank you.
	Let's see here.
	I think mainstream music might get a lot more political now.
	Oh, you really think so?
	You think so, huh?
	I think so.
	I'm not sure.
	I mean, it just seems like, you know, George W. Bush and everything going on right now.
	You'd think people would start getting pissed off, but I don't know.
	That's just my guess, and I don't know.
	Hopefully people will be able to understand the words, too, as I know your problem is.
	There's been a little bit of good music, but still, It's got a long way to come back, and you know what?
	I think it's going to, like a lot of other things, I really think music is going to turn around and get better.
	Mm-hmm.
	I mean, just even like, you know, just better songwriting, like, you know, Bob Dylan.
	I mean, you know, here's the hometown of Bob Dylan, you know, Duluth, Minnesota.
	Yeah, where are the new Bob Dylans, anyway?
	I don't... I think, you know, there's a lot going on in punk rock.
	There's a... I know.
	There's a really good band called Against Me out of...
	Florida, that's really good.
	It just blew me away.
	But, you know, I don't know.
	It just seems like so much stuff is centered around MTV.
	You're having quite a few storms in Florida tonight, aren't you?
	Yeah, well, actually, I'm up in Duluth right now.
	Oh, you're in Duluth.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm in Minnesota.
	Oh, you mentioned the group.
	They're having a bunch of storms there.
	Listen, I've got a scoot.
	We're at the bottom of the hour.
	Thank you very much, and we'll watch your predictions, see if it comes true.
	All right, thank you very much, Art.
	Good night Storms and part of quite a few of them. I'm art bell from
	the high desert. This is coast to coast am Riders of the storm
	Oh In
	The You
	You It's like Sam's my touch something inside the mean so much
	Thank you.
	The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound, or the strength of an oak with roots deep in the ground.
	The wonder of flowers to be covered and then to burst up through tarmac to the sun again.
	Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing To lie in a meadow and hear the grass sing
	Have all these things in our memories, or Can they use them to help us to fly?
	I Well, call Art Bell from West of the Rockies at 1-800-618-8255.
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	In the meantime, I'm Ramona Bell, and I've already given you my prediction for 2003, and I'd like to share a few thoughts with everyone.
	This is Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell on the Premier Radio Networks.
	Well, he'll be back very shortly. In the meantime, I'm Ramona Bell and I've already given you my prediction for 2003.
	And I'd like to share a few thoughts with everyone.
	Basically, there are a lot of wonderful people who got this show off the ground and on a roll.
	Basically, I was there from the K-Don days and I watched it literally grow and mushroom and blossom into the program that it is.
	Though a lot of people became involved in making Coast to Coast what it is, only one person gave it the heart that it needed.
	It not only had the right A bit of intellect and, you know, the spark and the charisma that makes a program like this fly.
	But it also takes a lot of heart and a lot of devotion and a lot of belief that it can work.
	And Art really, really devoted a lot of time to this program, people you just don't know.
	And in remembering this, this is how he does all of his projects.
	He puts his whole heart into everything that he does and sometimes it can it can be a little bit bewildering and somewhat frustrating if I don't understand it but after a while I you know I get used to the idea and it works it works very well because I found out that I have my niche actually a very very hefty niche it's my half of the workload and I'm shouldering it as well as
	I can at this point.
	We are starting KNYE off on a whole new game.
	We broke history by offering commercial free music all year long for 2002.
	And now we're going to find out if 2003 will be just as nice by selling commercials.
	And I'm finding my niche by doing all the traffic.
	And writing some of the commercial spots and voicing some of the commercial spots.
	And I'm getting a little bit better.
	I'm finding out that my voice is not that bad.
	It's actually pretty cute.
	But personally, I wanted to tell you I love you, baby.
	And we are not going to sit on rockers on the porch and Just let the days roll by.
	No, no, no.
	We're going to be both very busy.
	And no, he's not going to get bored.
	Not ever when I'm around.
	Have a Happy New Year, everyone.
	All right, I think I'd better review a few more of these or we'll never get through them.
	Number 49 from last year.
	There'll be a civil war in the U.S.
	Bonk.
	Number 50, the dead return to life.
	Bonk.
	Thank goodness.
	Number 51, Yasser Arafat to be assassinated.
	Bonk.
	I'm sure it was considered.
	52, there'll be an oil fire in Texas.
	Well, I'm not sure about that one.
	I'm tempted to ding it speculatively because there usually is some sort of oil fire there.
	Number 53, Ed Dames will remote view love.
	That's an interesting target.
	I don't believe that he ever has.
	I'm going to bonk it.
	Number 54.
	By April 20th, 300 million people will be dead.
	Bonk.
	Number 55.
	The administration will be caught in an energy scandal.
	Ding.
	We're going to have to give that one a tentative ding anyway.
	Number 56.
	Let's see, uh, William Shatner reveals, oh no, I'm not going to, uh, that he has a toupee.
	Actually, I'm not sure, I'm not sure whether he even has one or whether he's revealed it.
	I'm going to tentatively bonk it.
	Uh, number 57, a bear kills a Bigfoot in Canada.
	Mmm, definite bonk.
	Bigfoot may be dead, but it's more from a revelation regarding somebody who said that they fake the whole thing, so from that point of view, I suppose Bigfoot might be dead.
	Number 58 said he at home gets real hits.
	As far as I know, that's a bonk.
	Number 59, smallpox released.
	Now, I'm going to give that a bonk, but boy, you never know.
	I mean, there's been an awful lot of talk about smallpox.
	Number 60, Mount Rainier erupts.
	Bonk.
	Thank heavens for small favors.
	Number 61.
	Let's see.
	January 19th through the 23rd Beijing sold out.
	I believe that is a ding ding ding.
	It certainly was.
	Number 62.
	Photos of first I think they probably meant some very unflattering photos.
	There may have been some of those, but generally a bonk.
	Number 63, said he receives an optical hit.
	That's a bonk so far.
	Number 64, the beef industry in America experiences mad cow and closes borders.
	Closes U.S.
	borders.
	That's a bonk, I believe.
	Number 65.
	Art Bell will do more mind experiments.
	I believe that I did one and then shut it down, so I'll give that a tentative ding.
	Or did I not?
	I'm not sure.
	I shut it down sometime back there.
	Number 66.
	I can't read my own writing.
	I have no idea what this says.
	Doesn't get rated.
	Number 67.
	Terrorism occurs in a major sporting event in America.
	So far, that's a bonk.
	Thank God.
	A major earthquake is number 68 in Japan.
	And I believe Japan did have a pretty good sized earthquake, but nothing 7.5 or better.
	So I'm going to bonk that one.
	And at number 69, it will be discovered that our soul, the human soul, is contained in our blood.
	Now, I believe that also would be a bonk, although we have more blood research to do.
	On the international line, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	This is Marcus calling from Munich, Germany.
	Munich, Germany.
	Boy, we are just trotting the globe tonight, aren't we?
	All right.
	Glad to have you.
	Do you want to make a prediction?
	Yeah, I had a question for you first.
	Sure.
	This was, I sent a splash blast, I don't know if you got it.
	And it had to do with hydrogen and nuclear waste and stuff.
	And I was wondering if you still have your email, if I can send you information about that if you're interested.
	Oh yeah, let me tell everybody that at the same time.
	Of course I will retain both of my email addresses.
	Forever.
	One of them is artbellatminespring.com and feel free, please, to send me any email you wish, artbellatminespring.com or artbellataol.com.
	Both of those email addresses will remain active for as long as I live.
	I have some information also for your wife, Ramona, since she's into gardening.
	I have some information on that that accelerates the gardening effect.
	Okay.
	As far as the prediction, most everybody gave theirs.
	I had two.
	One was on Korea.
	The other one was on your back.
	Well, let's go with Korea.
	No, they already said it.
	My third one is that Crystal Gale will sing to you live in person.
	Well, that's a good one.
	Thank you very much.
	From Munich, Germany.
	Of course, she... That was really wild.
	She came out here.
	Crystal loves the desert.
	And Crystal came out here with that CD in her hand before anybody else had heard it.
	Other than those immediately with her... Let's see if I've got this down.
	That's number 20.
	And it was an amazing day.
	It was just an amazing day.
	I mean, Ramona was here.
	Crystal and her husband were here and we sat in the living room and she handed me this CD and said, go listen to this.
	And I just flipped.
	I mean, I just absolutely flipped out.
	And then, as I told Crystal earlier in the show, I progressively flipped out more and more as the meaning and the words and the whole song sunk in.
	I just, I flipped out.
	I mean, it's so totally right on that I'll play it at the very end of the program once again, and when I do, if you've not yet done so, listen very carefully to the words, because it is incredible.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	East of the Rockies.
	Yes, sir.
	That's you.
	Oh, that's me.
	I went to the Rockies Park.
	Oh, I see.
	I'm sorry.
	Where are you?
	I'm in Aurora, Missouri.
	Okay.
	My name's James.
	I'm listening to you on KSW AM 940.
	Yes, sir.
	And I've got a prediction and I've got a question.
	All right.
	21 is the number of your prediction, which is?
	Okay.
	On or around August 11, 2003, the government is going to attempt another Philadelphia-type experiment.
	And I feel it's going to be catastrophic, although they are on the verge of making a wonderful success of it.
	Well, this kind of thing could go either way.
	You've got your radio on.
	Turn it off, please.
	Okay.
	I can hear it in the background.
	I didn't know where I could even hear it.
	Well, I have very good ears or something.
	I guess so.
	Anyway, so they try to make something disappear.
	Well, it's going to be dealing more with time travel, I feel, since that's what happened on the first time.
	They weren't expecting it.
	But it happens every 20 years.
	The Earth is in that cycle to where the magnetic poles or the whole polarity is where it's primed for such an attempt.
	And that was in 43.
	Then in 63, they didn't do anything that I'm aware of.
	In 83, they tried it again with the Phoenix Project.
	And then they haven't done anything, well, for now, for 20 years.
	This will be their 20th year.
	So I really feel that they're going to make some ground on this.
	And my question is, in all honesty Art, whenever the first time you played that soundbite for Mel's Hole, did you get any sleep at all that night?
	Because I sure didn't.
	No, that bothered me more than you'll ever know.
	The soundbite that you're referring to, thank you very much, is not really Mel's Hole.
	People confuse them.
	The soundbite is And it was covered by Reuters News.
	People tend to say, oh, you know, this is some sort of urban legend.
	And in fact, they do list it on the urban legend page.
	But in fact, Reuters, a very mainstream service, published the story when it occurred.
	And it involved some Russian scientists who were drilling what is the, or I guess still is, the deepest hole in the world.
	And these scientists, for whatever reason, decided to lower microphones into the hole, and they recorded a sound.
	And I came to be in possession of that sound, and I actually read the entire story on the air, the Reuters news story, and I would be happy to play the sound for you.
	It's a very rare sound.
	And it's a very concerning sound.
	And I know a lot of people will say, Boulder Dash, but this is represented indeed to be what those scientists recorded.
	Now, the Reuters news story went on to document the fact that after the scientists recorded this sound, they all took off.
	They quit the project, the hole was closed, and they flat and i believe all of that to be accurate this is said
	to be that sound what would you have done in if you had you been one of them
	the the
	I'd do the same thing.
	Pack it up, close it up, and get the hell out of there.
	Appropriate usage of the word.
	Number 70, made for 2002, that I, meaning Art Bell, will experience a humble wow.
	Certainly, I did do that.
	Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
	With regard to the mass consciousness experiments, and the documentation and all the rest of it, Big time, wow.
	Number 71, a heavy burst from the sun.
	Boy, we sure got a few of those really big time bursts from the sun.
	Ding, ding, ding.
	India and Pakistan go to nuclear war.
	Number 72, thank God, bonk.
	Number 73, something will happen to the moon.
	To the best of my knowledge, that would be a bonk.
	Number 74, Barry Sanders returns and goes to the Super Bowl.
	Uh, Bonk, I believe.
	Uh, number 75, Enron scandal.
	Holy mackerel!
	Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
	Uh, number 76, Yasser Arafat forced from office.
	I believe that's a general ding.
	Uh, number 77, a big earthquake in Seattle.
	Well, I don't think... I... What?
	Big.
	Define big.
	Seven or better?
	I don't think so, Bonk.
	The Mississippi floods, not so far this year as far as I know, Bonk.
	Number 79, new energy source discovered, Bonk.
	Number 80, a dam will be blasted in India.
	I think that's Bonk.
	Number 81, there'll be a big earthquake in Finland, I think, Bonk.
	Number 82, that 2002 would be a pivotal year.
	Well, I don't know how to rate that one.
	I'll give it a ding.
	Most years are pivotal.
	83, U.S.
	reinstates the draft.
	That would be a bonk.
	Doing pretty well here.
	84, people will care more for each other.
	I think that's been a general truth since 9-11, don't you?
	Ding.
	Number 85, Kathleen Townsend becomes the first woman president.
	Well, I have not noticed that occurred.
	Bonk.
	Number 86.
	I'm having a hard time reading.
	Something goes active with signal.
	I'm sorry, I can't read my own writing.
	Isn't that embarrassing?
	Unrated.
	Number 87.
	A earthquake 30 miles south-south-east of St.
	Louis in the 5.8 to 6.0 range.
	That might have occurred.
	I'm not sure about that one.
	I'm going to leave that a question mark.
	I heard something about that.
	Number 88.
	Something comes out from under Mount Shasta.
	I believe that's a bonk.
	Nothing with teeth.
	A number 89 arc bell on the cover of Rolling Stone.
	Never made it.
	Been in Rolling Stone, but never made the cover of Rolling Stone.
	Bonk.
	An uprising in Tibet is number 90.
	An uprising in Tibet.
	Well, there's been a lot of uprising in Tibet.
	We'll give that a general ding.
	Number 91.
	The Tao breaks 11,500.
	the Dow breaks 11,500. Bonk, bonk, bonk.
	Number 92. A Russian warship incident will occur this summer.
	Another bonk.
	You didn't do as well so far this year, folks.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	This is Garrett from San Francisco.
	Hey, Garrett.
	I have a prediction.
	All right, lay it on me.
	Number 22.
	Well, there's going to be a series of events in the next year that'll draw you back to late night radio with your own new program and show.
	Well, I'll put it down.
	It's a sure thing.
	Nothing's a sure thing, sir.
	Nothing in life is a sure thing.
	That's true.
	It's really good to talk to you, finally.
	Well, it's certainly good to talk to you, too.
	And I definitely appreciate your call, and I'm sorry it has to be on the last night I'm here, but I'm glad that you made it through.
	You'll be hearing from me in the future, I'm sure of that.
	Really?
	Yep.
	Just a prediction.
	I think so.
	I'd like to say goodnight to everyone.
	Farewell to you and all your listeners from around the world and across the internet.
	And Art, thanks for the ride.
	Take care, my friend.
	We love you.
	We're going to miss you.
	Goodnight.
	Alright, we'll take a break here at the top of the hour.
	And then we return.
	We'll continue with predictions and I'll try... It does look like I'm going to be able to get those that were made for 2002 totally out before we're off the air.
	Remember folks, you now have less, or just slightly more than about an hour and two minutes
	to order that commemorative CD from the website because we shut it down at two.
	So, let's get started.
	Once upon a time, once when you were mine, I remember your smiles reflected in your eyes.
	I wonder where you are, I wonder if you think about me.
	Once upon a time, in your wildest dreams.
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	Certainly is.
	And by the way, I want to thank Craig Kitchin for sending me a very, very nice personal note earlier in the day.
	Craig Kitchin, CEO of Premier Radio Network.
	Very, very nice note.
	Thank you, Craig.
	Been very supportive throughout this whole affair.
	Now, let me remind you that you now have less than one hour to order that commemorative CD.
	That's a real hard deadline, folks.
	It will not be sold after that.
	In fact, the website actually goes down in now less than an hour.
	That's an incredible thing when you think about it.
	At any rate, there is a commemorative CD available.
	You can get it at the website for the next 51 and a half minutes.
	And that's it.
	It's down, lights out, and all the rest of that.
	All right, let me continue so we can get all of these out, if possible.
	Well, I guess I better take care of business, then we'll continue.
	All right, let's rock.
	Let's try and get through this.
	I really did want to get through the entire list, if possible, as best I can, anyway.
	Number 93 made last year that, well, not the previous year, actually, that George Bush I would become sad for some reason that his popularity would plummet.
	Well, that has not occurred yet.
	It may have gone down a little bit, but it has not plummeted, so that's a bonk.
	Number 94, that a device would be invented to offset global warming.
	And I do not believe that has yet been announced that I'm aware of, so that's a bonk.
	That there would be a large volcano that would let loose, and either Australia or New Zealand would be number 95, and I think that's a bonk.
	That Jeb Bush would lose re-election, that also would be a bonk.
	A number 97.
	It would be proven, or revealed, that we are all from Venus!
	No, we're not.
	That's just women.
	Right?
	Men are from Mars.
	Anyway, we're not all from Venus, so that's a bonk.
	Number 98, let's see, a new revelation in the paranormal field, which would be released on this show.
	Well, good Lord!
	Ding, ding, ding!
	We've had nothing but those on this program, right?
	Number 99, the Pope will pass away.
	He certainly did not.
	We discussed that earlier and somebody's already made that prediction for this year.
	Eventually it'll be correct for all of us, right?
	Number 100, that POW MIAs from the Korean War would reappear.
	You know, I don't think that we've had that occur.
	I'm going to give that a tentative bonk, but there was something about that.
	Number 101.
	Documents in India would prove that Bill Clinton ran a secret government.
	Number 102.
	The Democrats would gain in the election, and that's going to be a definite ding, ding, ding, ding.
	Rare dings in this one, right?
	Let's see, how are we doing?
	Up to 103.
	There would be an incident that would occur at the Salt Lake City Olympics, and I believe that's a bonk that it went very well indeed.
	104.
	Ham operators would contact aliens.
	Bonk, as far as I know thus far.
	105.
	The Five Avengers would be found in the Bermuda Triangle.
	I think that's a bonk.
	They have not been.
	106.
	Predicted Bin Laden would not be found.
	Now, isn't that interesting?
	Ding ding ding ding ding ding, and I think a lot of people laughed at that one because of course we all knew that we were going after him tooth and nail, and I'm sure everybody thought he would be, but indeed not.
	Number 107, a pig will have a human birth, sort of.
	Well, thank God, not yet, but you know there's talk about that sort of thing.
	Number 108, The Bush administration will be forced from office by scandal.
	Bonk.
	Number 109.
	Monarchy overturned worldwide.
	All monarchies.
	Well, another bonk.
	They survive indeed out there at the moment.
	Number 110.
	A major insurrection in Mexico.
	I think that has not occurred, although it's talked about all the time in Mexico.
	Proceeding.
	First-time caller line, you are on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi, Art.
	How you doing?
	Okay, sir.
	My name's Scott.
	I'm calling from Los Angeles.
	Alright.
	Listening to you on the mighty KFI-640.
	Oh, what a monster, yes.
	Yes, it is.
	My prediction... I have a question and a prediction.
	My prediction is that George Norrie will add a bare minimum of 30 stations to the current list of affiliates.
	Okay.
	George Norrie adds... At least 30.
	30 affiliates.
	Mm-hmm.
	Got it.
	Which is no small duty.
	That's right.
	It's no small thing.
	All right.
	And the question is actually probably more towards your wife.
	I heard her say earlier that she did traffic reports up there.
	You have traffic info?
	No, no, no, no, sir.
	Traffic in radio speak means scheduling of advertising and that sort of thing.
	Oh, okay.
	Now, now that you mention it, we had a man who has got a helicopter here in Pahrump, and he's been threatening to do traffic reports for it.
	And, you know, I thought it'd be so cool one day to go, you know, to Chopper, Chopper, so-and-so, up above Pahrump, doing a traffic report.
	So, you know, we might do it!
	Boy, Pahrump would have to get awfully big for that.
	It'd be pretty camped out.
	Actually, you know what?
	We've got a lot of traffic right now.
	They're widening the streets here to four lanes on all the major thoroughfares.
	Hell, they're even building a Walmart out here.
	You have no idea how this town is going nuts!
	I did actually see the Walmart going in.
	My wife and I were looking at some property up there not long ago.
	Not a bad thing to do, I'm telling you.
	I think that Pahrump is going to be a future Palm Springs.
	It's about twice the size of the valley over in Las Vegas.
	It's a very large valley.
	And you've got your own water.
	And we've got superb water.
	We could bottle the water out here.
	We've got the second largest aquifer in the U.S.
	right about 30 feet underground.
	And if Bugsy Siegel had come here instead of Las Vegas, Las Vegas would be here and it would have water.
	So, you know, I think that... Definitely something to think about.
	Yeah, I think, you know, if you get a chance to grab some property here, it's a good move.
	We're definitely looking into it.
	It's the one thing God's not making any more of.
	That's true.
	Yeah.
	I appreciate the call.
	Hey, Art, thanks for the ride.
	Take care.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Art, this is Mike from Irving, Texas.
	Hello, Mike.
	I'm sure it will miss having you, but I'll probably get more sleep at night coming up here.
	I had one prediction to make.
	Yes, sir?
	And that was that the Dallas Hockey team, the Dallas Stars, will play the Detroit Red Wings in the Western Conference Finals and win that and then go on to win the Stanley Cup for the second time.
	And what's the name of the team?
	Dallas Stars.
	Used to be the... Dallas Stars.
	Used to be the Minnesota North Stars before they moved down south.
	Got it.
	All right.
	Number 24.
	All right.
	Thanks a lot.
	Right.
	Thank you, sir, and take care.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hey, Art.
	This is Kathy.
	Hey, Kathy.
	And I'm in Palatka, Florida, listening to 97.3 FM, The Sky in Gainesville.
	Isn't it nice to get it on FM so clear?
	It's really nice to get it on FM.
	I was talking to a person I play games with online recently, though, and we were talking about how sometimes when you pick up You know, pick up the AM Cosmic Jam, as we call it, that comes down, say, from Raleigh.
	It always feels like kind of a sneaky little victory when you pick it up on a station that, you know, logic would say, well, I shouldn't be able to hear this.
	Well, you're quite right.
	That's AMDXing.
	I do a lot of that.
	I love it.
	Yes, sir.
	Listen, I did see that Florida, as I mentioned earlier, was suffering some pretty serious storms earlier in the night.
	Yes, sir.
	We had real heavy rain earlier.
	And lots of thunder and lightning.
	And someone said that 60 mile an hour winds were predicted, but I don't know that we got that in my area.
	I imagine some people did in some areas of Florida.
	I'm sure we'll see it on CNN later.
	Yes sir.
	Alright, what kind of prediction would you like to... If you don't mind, just quickly as we're talking about weather, I can't wait for the day after tomorrow to come out.
	I'm sure looking forward to it too.
	Yes sir.
	So my prediction, I think that we're going to find out That the Raelian clone baby is not really a clone, but I think that we will find out that there is a clone, legitimate and proven, living among us.
	And I don't think it's going to be a baby.
	I think it's been around.
	It, he, she, has been around for a while.
	Really?
	Yes.
	All right.
	You are hereby registered as number 25.
	Thanks a lot.
	Thank you very much for calling in.
	Take care.
	There's a lot of controversy about the Raelian announcement, of course.
	And I'm sure time will tell.
	They claim, by the way, they have more eggs ready to go.
	That was not the only clone.
	There will be, or could be, more.
	Area code 775-727-1222.
	Yeah, that's okay.
	I bleeped that out.
	Thank you.
	The only thing we don't allow, we don't allow last names.
	We'll have it.
	Let's try it.
	Your name is?
	Karen in Spokane.
	Okay.
	I'd like to say thanks for the years.
	You bet.
	I'm going to miss the intelligence and the wit.
	Thank you.
	Especially the humor.
	I feel like I'm losing Johnny Carson again.
	Prediction for the next year?
	Yes.
	I think that we're going to find that the alien crop circles are being created by college students that have wandered out in the wheat fields to watch the stars and can't find their way back.
	You really think so?
	You really think so?
	Well, I know of three or four that did that one night, and it took better than half an hour to find the road.
	Well, I know, but when you look at some of these crop circles... Oh, I think they're real.
	Yeah.
	I think they're real.
	It was just kind of a funny revelation for the kids.
	All right.
	College students pranking it up with crop circles.
	You got it.
	Thank you very much.
	Number 26.
	Well, I mean, partially that's going to come out to be correct, right?
	No question about it.
	Partially, at least.
	I mean, some of them are done, no doubt, by pranksters.
	But without any question.
	Any rational person who looks at what has been done in the fields, I think I think absolutely cannot come away with the, uh, any other impression other than they have not been done by man.
	Have not been done by man.
	First time caller line, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Yes, I predict that, uh... Turn your radio off, please.
	It's off.
	Okay.
	And you predict it?
	That the big triangle craft that I have seen once will be revealed as the top secret military aircraft.
	They won't admit that it's back-engineered.
	I've been listening to you for 15 years.
	It finally got through.
	Well, I sure do appreciate it, and I appreciate your prediction as well.
	The triangle craft revealed.
	Well, I happen to absolutely agree with that.
	If not in the coming year, then very shortly, because one, as you know, passed directly above the head of my wife and I.
	I mean, so close that had I not been in absolute shock, I might have tried to throw a rock at it.
	I mean, it was just right over our heads, silently passing.
	And so, either we've got it, or they've got it.
	And if we've got it, I would imagine that revelation would come pretty soon.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello?
	Oh, hi, Art.
	This is Bob from Pennsylvania.
	Yes, sir.
	Yeah, I'd like to thank you for all the time that you spent with us overnight.
	It was a lot of sleep, but we enjoyed it.
	Thank you.
	All right, yeah, my prediction?
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, I predict that in at least one major city in the United States, there'll be a martial law implemented.
	You know, I would have considered that to be a very unlikely prospect before 9-11, but Now I'm afraid you're probably right.
	Well, unfortunately, the times we live in now, and unfortunately, no, I hope not, but... Well, if there were to be another incident of some sort, you know, terrorism incident, I think martial law would be very, very likely, even necessary.
	And, you know, I mean, if there was some sort of biological release, for example, there would have to be There would absolutely have to be very strict and immediate control, and that would be martial law.
	So, you know, it's possible.
	I appreciate your call.
	All right, Art.
	Thank you very much, and I enjoy especially the Malachi Martin interviews very much.
	Thank you, sir, and take care.
	That's number 28.
	West of the Rockies, you are on the air.
	Good morning.
	Oh, Art, it's wonderful to hear your voice.
	Thank you.
	My name is Roxanne, and I'm from Great Falls, Montana.
	All right, Roxanne.
	Now, I have a prediction, but I wonder if JC's going to buy one of those CDs.
	I predict he will.
	But I have a real prediction.
	Sure, number 29.
	29, okay.
	I predict that you are going to write a big, fat book.
	And you're going to sign it and send it to me.
	Oh, really?
	Yes.
	Well, you're going to have to provide me with some email.
	Actually, if I write a book, and I'm not ruling out the possibility, I will write on the subject of time travel.
	Oh, that would be great.
	That indeed would be what I would write about.
	I've not made that decision yet, but should I write a book, I've been contemplating actually for a few years writing something probably on time travel.
	That would be really interesting because you have a lot of experience and a lot of knowledge from a lot of different areas that you could put together.
	Well I'm not sure it's fair to say I have experience with time travel.
	I certainly have experience with the notion of time travel.
	Now with that big triangle over your head, did you guys lose any time?
	Did you check your watches when you saw this?
	You know, it's a funny thing.
	We were in such shock that I couldn't tell you right now whether we lost time or not.
	What I recall is that we did not.
	Right.
	But how would I know?
	That's true.
	If you didn't look at your watch... Yeah, how would I know?
	You wouldn't know.
	That's right.
	I really appreciate you and it was a real pleasure to get to know you.
	On the radio, of course.
	And my husband and I wanted to extend up here in Montana.
	We have the greatest fishing in the country.
	One of the greatest.
	And we've been wanting to invite you and Ramona to come up and do some fishing sometime.
	Montana's a wonderful, beautiful, wonderful state.
	Oh, it is.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Take care.
	And Montana might be a nice destination for somebody in an RV, huh?
	You might see me out on the road.
	That's something that we're going to try and accomplish during the year, is to get out and travel a little bit and see a little bit of America.
	You know, it's a funny thing.
	I have seen a lot of America, but mostly it's been flying over.
	I've always been in a hurry, and so that's one thing that hopefully retirement offers, and that's an opportunity to do it slowly and to really enjoy the country.
	There's a very great deal of America to be enjoyed, isn't there?
	I'm Art Bell and we've got one more segment and a few more predictions to review and a few more to make.
	So stay right where you are.
	are.
	Thank you.
	What will you do when you're lonely?
	No one waiting by your side.
	You've been running, hiding much too long.
	You know it's just your foolish plan, yeah.
	Got me on my knees, yeah.
	I'm beggin', darlin', be with me Darling, won't you ease my lonely mind?
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	It is.
	God, it's actually getting very close now, isn't it?
	Amazing.
	But you know, again, folks, I've been one of the most fortunate people in the world.
	I've had a 15-year network career.
	That's a long time.
	That's really a long time on the radio, and up above 530 affiliates, and it's just astounding what's happened.
	In my wildest dreams, this could never have happened, and yet it did.
	So many things did.
	Let me review some more of the predictions made for 2002.
	Generally not a very successful year for all of you out there in predicting, Hey, that's the way it goes.
	A year before, it was very good, incidentally.
	Let's see how we do.
	Number 111, made last year.
	Terrorism will end when immigrants are deported.
	You know, that's a bonk, but it's getting close to a ding.
	Number 112, that we would reach 750 affiliates.
	No, not even Russia's there, or even close.
	113, there would be a new constitution.
	Thank God it's a bonk.
	Number 114, Ed Dames is revealed to be a disinformation agent.
	Well, a lot of people think that, but that's bonk.
	115, airport security turns out to be a farce.
	Well, ding, ding, ding.
	116, people will become more intuitive.
	Now, I believe that's a ding.
	Ding, ding, ding, actually.
	117, Packers versus the Rams in a playoff game.
	And the Packers win.
	God, I can't remember, was it the Packers and the Rams?
	I don't remember.
	118, a vaccine for AIDS.
	Well, there have been several, but none that I'm aware of that actually are declared totally successful, so I'll bonk that.
	119, a Seattle earthquake.
	Boy, a lot of people thought that, didn't they?
	And that would be a trigger for more.
	Extending all the way to Yellowstone, thank God, a bonk.
	120.
	Global War.
	Thank God, a bonk.
	Let's see.
	Number 121.
	Quickening continues.
	A definite big time ding ding ding.
	122.
	A cure is found for the atmospheric difficulties we have right now.
	I'm sorry, that's a bonk.
	Wish it were true.
	Number one, at least publicly, there's nothing.
	Number 123.
	Scientists clone an extinct animal.
	I think we're pretty close to that, but I'm going to have to declare it a bonk, and that completes the predictions made for 2002, as I promised I would do.
	That was as many as we made over several days, actually.
	123 of them, so there you have it.
	We are at number 29 presently, so let's get back to it, shall we?
	On the international line, you're on the air.
	Hello there, where are you calling from, please?
	Hi, it's Jeff from the UK.
	Hey, Jeff, how are you doing?
	I'm great, thanks.
	I have a prediction for a friend of mine who is just entering retirement after 15 years in the radio broadcasting business with over 530 affiliates.
	I reckon he's going to build a time machine.
	What do you think?
	Um, well, I'll tell you this, uh, if I could, I would.
	And if I can, I will.
	How's that?
	Pretty good.
	Well, it's been great having you back on my show, anyway.
	Take care, my friend.
	Bye, there.
	Bye-bye.
	Art builds time machine, huh?
	Well, I just told him the way it is.
	I could, I would.
	First time caller on the line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi there.
	Where are you, dear?
	First time callers, area code 775-727-1222.
	I had to bleep, now I'm gonna have to bleep that out because we're not allowed to put, uh, not allowed to put last names on the air.
	So, uh, let's, let's try it all over again.
	What's your first name only?
	Dane.
	Dane.
	Okay, Dane, do you have a prediction?
	Yes, I predict there will be more car accidents this year than ever before.
	Really?
	Why do you believe that would be true?
	I don't know.
	I just came up with it and I decided to call you.
	Okay, more car accidents than ever.
	That's an amazing prediction, actually.
	All right, we'll see how you do.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	I've got a prediction, but you know, the thanks I'd like to give are more important to me than this little prediction.
	What's more important?
	The thanks.
	Oh.
	We'd all like to give you.
	Well, thank you.
	More important.
	The little prediction is that Vice President Cheney will have recourse to his bunker in the Navy Yard at least once this coming year, or this year.
	That's another way of saying that something, once again, fairly awful is going to happen?
	Or he may just make an unusual decision.
	I'd like also to second the prediction that you're going to be back on the air with a show of your own.
	Maybe KNYE will grow enough to reach us all.
	I appreciate your call, dear.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, and take care.
	East of the Rockies, you are on air.
	Hi.
	Hello.
	Oh, hi, Eric.
	Didn't quite catch you there.
	Yes.
	Happy New Year to you and Ramona.
	Thank you.
	All the best.
	It is indeed a new year, isn't it?
	It hasn't really sunk in yet.
	You know, I'm on the air.
	But here it is, a new year.
	All the best in all of your future endeavors.
	Thanks for the memories.
	I'm sure I'm speaking for all of us.
	Thank you.
	Along the way.
	And one request I have, maybe you can do it or pass it on to George.
	Along the way, your bumper music's been great.
	Gonna miss it.
	Big time and hopefully maybe you can get a CD out on it or something.
	Well you never know.
	Do you have a prediction?
	My prediction is that our civil liberties, our personal rights are going to continue to be eroded based on fear of Islamic terrorism and I think it's going to reach, I'll predict it will at some point reach very much a crisis state for everyone.
	Yeah, it doesn't have very far to go to do that, sir.
	Thank you very much.
	That our civil liberties will continue to be eroded, unfortunately.
	I'm afraid that I agree with that prediction.
	Any additional terrorism will bring with it almost an immediate additional erosion.
	Perhaps a very profound one, and we all have to be so careful that we do not Safety ourselves, in the name of safety, erode everything that we are trying to preserve.
	You know, our freedoms, that sort of thing.
	We don't want to erode those, do we?
	Be right back.
	Alright, back to it.
	In 14 minutes, I will be retired from network radio.
	In 14 minutes, Artbell.com will go down.
	In 14 minutes, your last opportunity to get the commemorative CD will expire.
	You're not going to be able to get it.
	The website, in fact, will not be there to get it from, so you better hurry.
	Now, all of that said, George Norrie is about to take over this program.
	I wish him nothing but the very, very best, and for all of you, I would ask that you bear with George as he grows into the program.
	That's something that happens.
	You don't do this kind of program.
	You don't get comfortable doing this kind of program overnight.
	That doesn't happen.
	Even if you've been broadcasting for years and years and years, when you walk into something like this cold, you've got a pretty big learning curve ahead of you.
	And George is going to go through that, and so you will watch George grow, I am sure, with this radio program.
	And so I hope there will be forbearance out there, and all of you will continue to enjoy the radio program.
	The radio station that I have here, KNYE, will continue to carry Coast to Coast AM.
	I hope you all enjoy the new website, Coast to Coast AM.
	And in fact after the two o'clock hour, in those few moments remaining, we will point our URL so that it bounces you to the new Coast to Coast AM website.
	And I hope you enjoy that.
	That also will be a work in progress.
	I mean everything is a work in progress.
	It's a little hard for me to imagine not being here on the radio with you on a nightly basis, but I do look forward to being with you occasionally when George needs a little bit of time off or a special occasion arises or whatever may be.
	I'm sure you will hear from me again.
	So this is not the long kiss goodnight.
	This is not the goodbye that so many of you are thinking that it is.
	I guess in a sense it is, but it's not It's not that you're not going to hear from me again, because you will hear from me again.
	You're on the air at Coast to Coast AM.
	Hello there.
	Where are you calling from, please?
	Hello.
	This is AT&T Message Delivery with a prepaid message from someone who tried to call you but couldn't reach you.
	You will be able to hear the message.
	Do the wild thing at 775-727-1295.
	No, no, no, no.
	seven seven five seven two seven one two nine five five one no no no no no see
	somebody somebody gave us sent a prepaid message and put their first name and
	last name and telephone number on there and I'm not about to air that
	Too bad.
	First time caller on the line, you're on the air.
	Hello!
	Oh, good morning.
	Good morning!
	A safe, happy, and prosperous New Year to the United States of America, from Her Majesty the Queen's Canadian realm, the Dominion of Canada.
	Yes, sir, thank you.
	And I have a prediction.
	Sure.
	I believe Ariel, the Raelians, the Raelian compound in Quebec, the Raelian Bishop, Brigitte Boisselier, and the clone child Eve will all be caricatures in the next Austin Powers movie, Attack of the Clone Aids.
	Do you really want to make that prediction?
	Yes, I do.
	I can see that happening.
	Alright, it's number 34.
	Happy New Year again, and we'll miss you, and God save the Queen.
	Take care, my Canadian buddy.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	CQ, CQ, Kingdom of Nine.
	Yes, sir.
	Lester the Rocky's call toll-free 1-800-618-8255.
	I'm sorry, I've got to bleep that out, too.
	Obviously, giving out your ham call would lead to people being able to get your name and address.
	You don't want that here on the air, believe me.
	So your name is Ryan, you're a ham.
	You want to make a prediction?
	Yeah, it's one that was covered last year, and I don't remember it being covered, but I came up with it at the beginning of the night, and come the end of next year, I still think we will have not found Bin Laden.
	Really?
	Another year goes by and no Bin Laden, huh?
	Sadly so.
	Whether or not we've proved he's alive or not, I couldn't tell you, but I don't think we will have found him.
	You know what I think?
	I think that if Bin Laden is dead, you could well be correct, because it may be that in order to just keep the world on edge for as many years as possible, if Bin Laden died, it may be his Al-Qaeda people would bury him and not say one word, and just sort of let the world think that this terrorist continues to exist.
	It would be in their interest, as terrorists, to continue the terror, right?
	Oh, exactly, and not only that, if he's been gotten already, you know, who's to know for sure?
	Yeah, quite correct.
	You know, they could do something like that, or he could be gone and there could be no evidence left of him.
	Yep, quite correct.
	And I'm enjoying the chat tonight, and go to Talk.com with Keith and all the folks there, and we all wish you well, and 73, my friend.
	Take care.
	Good night.
	Go To Talk is a new web endeavor that covers all of talk radio that Keith has Unveiled, and many of you who have received or will be receiving, I guess more accurately, the CD, I think, get a 60-day tryout of it.
	It's kind of neat.
	Well, Mr. The Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi, Art.
	All the best to you and Ramon and your whole family for the New Year.
	Thank you, sir.
	This is Richard calling from Las Vegas at KDWN.
	That's the way to do it.
	Yes, sir.
	That's my old alma mater.
	Absolutely.
	I have a prediction, and my prediction is that, as you probably know, we're going to be going outside of the country for gold in the next year, and my prediction is that outside countries, specifically the ROC, Republic of China, will put the squeeze on us manufacturing-wise, and that we will have to, in order to remain a superpower, Bring that kind of manufacturing back to the United States.
	It's not going to happen.
	That's what I'm afraid of.
	Yeah, it's not going to happen.
	I went to China, sir, and it scared the hell out of me.
	I went up into the economic zone, Shenzhen, and the amount of Commerce going on I I mean I drove by 40 miles of factories just like in the What's now the rust bucket here in the US?
	I drove by 40 miles of factories And I I saw more trucks than I've ever seen you know semis in my entire life the amount of commerce going on there the amount of factories the amount of work going on was frightening and that was years and years ago and I've talked to people who have been over since and they say what I saw was nothing compared to what's going on now.
	Well, you know that they own 51% of every business that comes into China.
	Yeah.
	So that puts us at quite a disadvantage economically and in terms of our own American businesses.
	You're really raising a good point.
	Everybody had better keep their eye on China because If they don't trouble us militarily, and of course there could always be trouble over Taiwan, you can't rule that out, they definitely are going to trouble us economically.
	China is going to be running the world, and so we're going to have to figure out some way to either to join with them, to get them to slowly come out of their communist ways, and join with the rest of the world, or we're going to find ourselves at war with them.
	Well, after many years of Kung Fu training and knowing the Chinese people, I don't see that happening.
	I think it's Gung Ho and Kung Fu, isn't it?
	Yeah, or Gung Ho Fat Choi, which will be in February.
	All the best.
	See you in the future.
	You take care, my friend.
	See you on the other side.
	You're on the air, Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell.
	Where are you calling from, please?
	Hi Art, I'm calling from Seoul, South Korea.
	Seoul, South Korea.
	Okay, I'm out of time, so give me one prediction very quickly.
	Military action coming up in the next year, the United States will not achieve its objective.
	In Korea?
	Uh, in two places.
	Two places.
	Korea and the Middle East.
	A lot of people are saying that.
	Alright my friend, thank you very much.
	The last call being from Seoul, Korea.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for all of the years of company that we have kept with each other.
	And you will hear me, from time to time, for now, from the high desert.
	Good night.
	Good night.

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