Art Bell’s farewell show closes Coast to Coast AM after 15 years, ending the Medford office—laying off Delani Conrad, Roger Hogel, and others—while shifting operations to Los Angeles. He scores 2002’s 123 predictions (6 "dings," like post-9/11 isolationism and UFO sightings) before fielding wild 2003 calls: a "big triangular craft" reveal, martial law risks, Cheney’s bunker use, and Raelian clones in Austin Powers. Bell warns of civil liberties erosion post-terrorism and hints at future appearances. His legacy blends conspiracy speculation with radio innovation, leaving listeners to ponder how fringe theories shape public perception. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, as the brand new year races across the Americas It was raced across the Midwest and it was not time zone and then eventually I'm bidden to the Pacific time zone I bid you good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be very correlated by this program one way or the other.
It's important to post them and I'm like now and this is it folks.
Tonight is the last program and so I'm gonna have a few words about that.
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 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, forever.
Now, having said forever, never say forever.
Add number one.
Number two, I will indeed be back from time to time as George needs relief.
So bear that in mind.
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 they are, of course, Delani Conrad, the operations director there, a total brain, a wonderful woman, a producer, somebody who has, over the last couple of years, when they've been gathering guests for me in Medford, this office, of course, in Medford, Oregon.
A 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 Norrie.
Stephanie Smith in affiliate marketing administrator, general administrator, office manager, she's gone.
Miley Reed in traffic and web sales will apparently gone from her regular job and I guess will do a contracting sort of job for the new Coast to Coast AM website.
Jim Reed in tape duplication and program sales is gone.
Rondi our chief.
Oh, Rondi.
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 Old Slim.
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 Kinkade, 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, you know, 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 the 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 Corbett came down to Las Vegas, saw and heard my program.
He'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 into, Alan will retire.
And Leonie Corbeth, 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 to 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.
And 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 going to be a happening year.
It really is going to be a happening year, folks.
And so this is your one opportunity to get it.
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.
Now, the website for a moment.
Artbell.com.
Keith Rowland has been with me for more years than I can count.
They're 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 happened to me.
They sent me an email and said, Art, I probably should not be giving this to you.
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 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 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, Harry, 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 kind of 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 C D 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 know what I'll do with it.
Maybe I'll make it a ham radio site or something.
I have no idea.
I had 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, Coast2Coast 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, and I am going to keep it alive, keep it registered at the very least, and probably going to coast-toast AM for a period of time.
And then, who knows, maybe a ham site, 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, autographing them, and this is your last, literal, last chance.
You know, 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 book counting.
Well, all right, we've covered the fact that New Year's is coming, 2003 on the way, whilst I go.
Let's look at a little bit of what else is going on, shall we?
President Bush has said that any further attack by Saddam Hussein or any terrorist ally would, quote, cripple our economy, end quote, offering new justification for a potential war against Iraq, even though he 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, okay, Mr. President, we're going to disassemble whatever we've got.
We're not really going to use these fuel rods, and 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 has 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 Delaner 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 a $1.75 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 for means well There was the ABC story.
I've changed my mind.
Ding, ding, ding, ding.
Number four, that wormwood would happen.
Bong.
It'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.
And even though the experts are not yet using the word depression, it sure as hell feels like it out there.
Anyway, we're going to pause here at the bottom of the hour.
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 phase on Mars, other things of that sort, would suddenly be known to the world as a result of a mission to Mars, or would they keep it secret?
unidentified
I just think, well, to tell you the truth, I believe it's already been occupied.
You found out.
I find that back in, I believe in 93, 92, or 99, when the Russians launched Forbes I and Forbes II, and there was some footage that those things, well, I guess.
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.
unidentified
And another thing, you know, and then when the Americans launched something to Mars and there said that there was some type of malfunction from the control center, 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.
I'm at a party with a bunch of UFO folks, fittingly, and 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.
And 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 programming.
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.
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?
Actually, many people posed 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 public, the world, obviously, but specifically the American public would be?
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 ufology and UFO research than Art Bell.
And 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 months ago, Seth Szostak, who's been on your program so many 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.
My prediction is that Richard Hoagland, using the Data Quality Act, will successfully challenge NASA and namely the Mars Odyssey Themis Imaging Team in a court of law.
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.
And so far you're doing all right.
Wester the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
Mr. Bell?
That would be me.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
This is John calling from Chula Vista, California.
I appreciate your call, sir, and I'll put that down.
World War.
Now, I'm going to say this one more time.
And, you know, 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, 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.
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.
And 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.
The reason I proffered the possibility of that man being in the military was the number of sirs that he uttered during his call.
Usually when you're, 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.
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?
unidentified
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 want to give me some sort of official prediction for next year?
unidentified
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 maybe coming to an agreement with the North or something and almost trying to get the U.S. out of here.
And I know that when this president was elected, he was elected mostly because of his anti-American sentiment.
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 objective.
Certainly.
Well, there's sure.
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 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 I've got a lot of questions that are coming in by computer, so I'll try and address them as best I can.
All right, 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, K-N-Y-E-F-M here in Perump, Nevada, 95.1 in Perump, 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.
And 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 Perump, Nevada.
It's really quite something.
I'm very proud of this, very proud of this radio station.
And so it's the dream of a lot of radio people, and I got to achieve that.
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 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 will 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?
unidentified
I'm calling from the other corner of Korea, down in the southeast corner in Busan.
I mean, from the perspective of somebody right there?
unidentified
Well, that sort of ties in with my prediction.
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 hooky 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 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?
And remember, if I am invited to do so, I will, this is very important, I will, from time to time, come back and fill in for George.
Nobody, I can assure you, and George will find this out eagerly as he may be starting this job, and I wish him very well.
He will find out very quickly that doing an all-night show, having a five-night per-week deadline, and it's my understanding he's going to take the show back to five hours, as 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.
And 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 he's going to need a break.
And I certainly will be available should he request me to be here.
He's going to need a little bit of time every now and then.
Everybody does.
And so should the occasion arise, I will be here guest hosting.
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.
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 Art Bell.
Stay right where you are.
All right, 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 Purity 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 a 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.arbell.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, what, 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.
All right, 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.
I predict that it will be revealed that the reason why the Bush administration is reluctant to give specifics about why we're going to attack Iraq is because we've given, or we gave Iraq some things that we'd rather not admit back in the 80s.
I just 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?
unidentified
No, I don't either.
And I think that people have to be realistic about at a certain time one thing serves our interests, where at another time it doesn't.
And I think the public opinion is what they're worried about.
I think eventually we'll see that the Mexican trucking firms that are going to be roaming our nation now will possibly bring in us a terrorist problem from Central America-Chinese influence, maybe.
Certainly the open borders that we have now and 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?
unidentified
No, it's getting real scary right now.
We thump our fist and declare certain things, but just open the doors and act blind in so many ways.
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?
unidentified
Well, you know, like yourself, Art, I grew up during the 50s where we had our idea of what Russia and Soviet Russia was like.
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.
Now, during the broadcast they had on television here during this theater attacks, 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, Han, 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.
unidentified
Yes, the changes are taking place, but I think they're very, very slow.
writers of the storm Be inside, sound, smell, touch.
There's something inside that we need so much.
The sight of the touch, or the scent of the sand, or the strength of an oak with roots deep in the ground.
The wonder of flowers to be covered and then to burst up from 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 How all these things in our memory song And they used them to help us to fight Yeah!
Right, right by the storm Take this place, off that strip Just gonna make it Wanna take a ride?
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Well, we'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 Kdon days, and I watched it literally grow and mushroom and blossom into the program that it is.
And 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 bit of intellect and 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 be a little bit bewildering and somewhat frustrating if I don't understand it.
But after a while, 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.
We'll continue with predictions, and I'll try and...
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 2.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
When you were mine, I remember skies 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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Craig Kitchen, CEO of Premier Radio Networks.
Very, very nice note.
Thank you, Craig.
Been very supportive throughout this whole affair.
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That's a real hard deadline, folks.
It will not be sold after that.
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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.
Alright, 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, now the previous year, actually, that George Bush 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 in 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 bonk.
A number 98, let's say 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.
Bonk.
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.
103, that 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, a bonk, as far as I know thus far.
Number 105, the five Avengers would be found in the Bermuda Triangle.
I think that's a bonk.
They have not been.
Number 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.
And that was that the Dallas hockey team, you know, 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.
I was talking to a person I played games with online recently, though, and we were talking about how sometimes when you 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 logic would say, well, I shouldn't be able to hear this.
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.
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.
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 absolutely cannot come away with any other impression other than they have not been done by man.
I predict that the big triangular craft that I have seen once will be revealed that the top secret military aircraft, but they won't admit that it's back engineered.
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.
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 I think, you know, it's possible.
I appreciate your call.
unidentified
All right, Art.
Thank you very much, and I enjoy especially the Malachi Martin interviews very much.
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 on, probably on time travel.
unidentified
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.
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, a few more predictions to review, and a few more to make.
unidentified
so stay right where you are
White bird in a golden cage on a winter's day in the rain, white bird in a golden cage alone.
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What will you do when you're lonely?
No one waiting by your side You've been running, hiding much to know You know it's just your foolish friend Got me on my knees, baby Dang
it, darling, feel your way Darling, don't choose my way to die Tried to give you consolation Your old man let me down Like a
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This is Coast to Coast AM with Arfel from the Kingdom of Die.
How do you have a prediction for a friend of mine who, well, he's just entering retirement after 15 years in the radio broadcasting business with a show with over 530 affiliates.
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.
Well, all right, back to it.
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You're not going to be able to get it.
The website, in fact, will not be there to get it from.
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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, coast2coastam.com.
And in fact, after the 2 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 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?
unidentified
Hello.
This is AT ⁇ T Message Delivery with a prepaid message from someone who tried to call you but couldn't reach you.
I believe Rael, the Raelians, the Raelian compound in Quebec, the Raelian bishop, Brigitte Bois Sellier, and the clone child Eve will all be caricatures in the next Austin Powers movie, Attack of the Clone Aids.
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?
unidentified
Oh, exactly.
And not only that, if he's been gotten already, you know, who's to know for sure?
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.
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 mean, I drove by 40 miles of factories, just like in what's now the rust bucket here in the U.S., I drove by 40 miles of factories, and I saw more trucks than I've ever seen 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.
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.
unidentified
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.
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 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.
unidentified
Well, after many years of gung fu training and knowing the Chinese people, I don't see that happening.