Art Bell’s 2007 predictions episode kicks off with New Year’s chaos—Times Square crowds, Iraq War deaths, and CERN’s nano-black hole fears—while callers speculate on everything from Hillary Clinton’s VP pick to a U.S. Supreme Court scandal. Les ties Bell’s anti-abortion activism to April/May events, while Tim warns of Earth being "swallowed" by CERN’s collider in 11 minutes. Past "bonks" (like Saddam’s buried secrets or asteroid impacts) contrast with confirmed hits, such as a Canadian wrestling fatality and Blu-ray’s victory over HD DVD. Bell’s personal hopes—quitting smoking, satellite-visible Midwest floods, and even whale-frequency music—mix with wild theories, leaving listeners to question whether his show’s intuition beats professional forecasts. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you good evening, good morning, good afternoon, whatever the case may be.
As the new year rushes across the continent, a couple of hours away here on the west coast, about a million people, one million people, jammed Times Square and whooped it up and brought in 2007.
Now, I suppose it's just past the Midwest and headed toward the mountain states.
That's the good news.
The bad news, 3,000 dead in Iraq so far.
That makes the number of Americans who have died in the Iraq war 3,000, 3,000 now.
That's in 46 months, folks.
Saddam buried in the village of his birth, or if you're a conspiracy buff, running around in South America somewhere, I suppose.
Hamasites, progress in prisoner talks, believe that when you see it.
Stream of visitors, of course, paying respect to the late President Ford.
It seems as though a fleet of small planes is required to canvas snow-covered roads in Colorado today, looking for people stranded after a powerful, yet another powerful storm piled up to 10-foot-high drifts.
Can you imagine that?
Sure you saw the pictures of the big rigs stuck on I-40.
God, what a mess that must have been.
And that's about it.
That's all I care to give you in the way of world news.
What we're going to do tonight, I would like to welcome you to Predictions by You 2007, Part 2.
Now, here's the way it works.
In case you missed last night's program, there are a few rules.
Only one prediction per customer.
In fact, tonight I'm going to get very strict.
Anybody trying to slip in a second prediction will have their first prediction canceled.
Okay?
That's strict.
One prediction per customer.
That's one.
Two is only on-air predictions are recorded.
Now I know you will send them on Fast Blast.
You will send them on email.
You will throw them into my driveway.
Whatever they are, they will not be recorded unless they're actually here on the air.
That way there is no hanky-panky going on because we all get to record them.
They're a matter of very, very public record.
And maybe if you get a hit, the whole world knows about it.
Hi, my prediction for 2007 is that winter hasn't arrived yet and that it's going to really snow really hard and then it's going to melt really fast and so there's going to be a lot of flooding and so like the satellites will be able to pick it up and it'll look like the whole midsection of the United States looks like one big lake.
In fact, I wanted to ask because I'm really hoping that the majority of the audience tonight does dig down into their psychic center to give us these predictions.
And if they do, we're going to do really well.
unidentified
Yes, I hope everybody really psyches into it.
I have a lot of predictions, but I can only say one, so that's mine for the just give us your best shot.
There is a picture for the new year up there right now.
That is my little souvenir.
That's actually it's a picture of myself and Aaron.
You'll recognize the background as my office, my little broadcast area here in Nevada.
And so there you have it, folks.
I called her my little souvenir last night, just joking, and she said, no, I'm not a souvenir.
That's like a take-home.
And I said, well, what did I just do?
I just brought you home, right?
She said, no, I'm not a souvenir.
And she isn't indeed.
Although she's more than I deserve.
She's really a sweetheart.
That's Erin.
And actually, strictly, her name is A-I-R-Y-N for those of you who might be wondering about that.
And again, the way she got that name is it was supposed to be Irene with the traditional spelling of Irene.
And most Filipinos have Americanized first names.
However, the German priest who baptized her changed the spelling of Irene to A-I-R-Y-N, which would be sort of the German spelling, I guess, of Irene.
And I look at it, even other Filipinos look at it and say, Aaron.
So I sort of nicknamed her Aaron, and she likes it, and so that's what I call her.
And there she is in her little Eskimo outfit.
Even 70 degrees, keeping the house at 70 or 72 is still cold for her.
Now, she doesn't normally wear that around the house, but I told you, I think I mentioned the other night that she's got this really cute little Eskimo outfit.
We had seen a movie called Snow Walker.
If you get an opportunity, I actually ballyhooed that movie the night we watched.
I think I told you about it when I was in the Philippines.
And if you get a chance, see it.
It's a remarkable movie.
And the little Eskimo gal in Snowwalker, at one point, this little gal and a fella had crashed in an airplane.
It's one of those survival movies.
It was a wonderful one, by the way.
Snowwalker.
Don't forget it.
It's an older movie.
And she was referring to a little animal that they could catch and eat to stay alive.
And she just kind of took two fingers along the ground and went like that to demonstrate it.
And that just tickled Aaron to death.
And so that's kind of a private little joke between us, Eskimo.
West of the Rockies, Ryan in Malibu, California, you are on the air.
You imagine that Hillary, you have to admit it's possible she could be elected.
And then turn around and make Bill Clinton the vice president.
So he would have been then president and vice president?
That would make a very strange, perhaps even disturbing kind of U.S. history.
And I hate to admit that sort of constitutional ignorance, but I don't think with what I don't think there would be any prohibition technically, constitutionally, against her doing that.
Would there?
Would be a horror show, though.
Wildcard line?
You're on the air from Fresno.
Hello.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
I visited your area recently.
I don't get to visit your area very much, just on conventions and stuff, so you don't have much time to see the area.
But I recently did, and I'm sure your wife will enjoy the countryside around there.
Oh, there are so many beautiful areas to show her here, but she has gone now from the tropics, and I mean Sirius tropics, down near the equator, where everything is green, to the opposite side of the world in the middle of our desert.
Well, they've ruled that, administered that country before the years leading up to World War I, you know, under the British Empire, you know, the colony type thing.
Well, yes, thank you very much, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
I mean, there are wonders of the world to show, Aaron.
The Grand Canyon, for example.
Boulder Dam.
Las Vegas itself, I have not yet, other than, you know, coming in at the airport and driving at night, she didn't get to see much of Las Vegas, so she hasn't seen that yet.
And, of course, I've had to be here on the air, so she's not seen a whole lot.
She's just sort of been adjusting and sleeping.
And as you know, we both have a cold.
You can probably hear the cold in my voice.
It is not possible to take plane flights of the magnitude that I've been taking and not get a cold.
That's what I figured out.
Not possible.
East of the Rockies, Michael, I believe in Boonboro, Maryland.
I'm not sure if it's, you know, what the extent of it will be, but I'm thinking, you know, definitely, you know, moving something from one building to another.
Don't you think if they begin to get it right, the airlines are going to buy it up and put it on the shelf with a carburetor that gets 100 miles per gallon?
unidentified
Well, that's possible.
You know, they said they had a light bulb that would never burn out, and they shelved it.
Yeah, it could be something as simple as an update of We Are the World, which 22 years ago brought a lot of people together to feed the hungry, or raising the stakes just a bit.
It could be interstellar sound waves, some kind of musical notes that gives us collective reason to believe that there's life beyond Earth and gives us all a cause to unite, if only for a moment, to realize that we get along better together than warring with one another.
Well, unless you can tell me what my true destiny is, then I have nothing to write down.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
You're going to lead a movement to help the human race realize that there is no necessity for abortion, and that if we don't come to that realization, humanity is going to destroy itself.
We have come to a time now where in the last 40 years here in the United States, we have murdered more children than all of the casualties of World War II.
I will accept and write down that art helps kill abortion.
I'm absolutely anti-abortion, and I'll tell you why.
I had an opportunity.
I think I mentioned to you that in the first trimester, Erin is now in her second trimester.
In the first trimester, after only, let me see if I can get it right.
I think that it was 10 weeks.
At 10 weeks, Erin had an ultrasound, and it was the most remarkable thing that I've ever seen in my whole life.
I was allowed to go in, and I just sat there, and I looked at the screen, and the very wonderful Philippine doctor that we had pointed at the screen, and unmistakably, you could see this quick little heartbeating.
That's a poor imitation of a heartbeating.
It was really only a light, to be honest with you, blinking like a very quick.
And that was the baby's heartbeating.
And that was only a few weeks.
Now, excuse me, but that's life.
I just, I don't see how you can argue that's not life.
If we hold life sacred in this country, and we do, then how can we excuse abortion?
I think with the Democrats in control of the House and Senate hanging on by a nail, that there will be more attempts at gun control.
While President Bush is there, I doubt very much that he would sign them, but they're going to try.
You know they're going to try.
Wildcard line number four, Tommy in Seattle, your return.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
Howdy.
My prediction is in the last quarter of the year, George Bush, in an effort to improve his historical image for posterity, will announce that the International Space Station is our first orbiting interstellar embassy.
But see, embassies have to be ambassadors to something.
unidentified
Well, it'll be the place where alien life can come without having their little flying saucers confiscated, their bodies bisected, or just scaring the daylights out of everybody on Earth.
And that's something the president could do, and it wouldn't cost a penny, and certainly not the billions, hundreds of billions of dollars that the ISS is costing.
And that would be that by November of next year, President Bush's ratings will be at least 55% approval due to, directly due to, some policies, some things that will happen in Iraq and Iran in that area.
Okay, what could possibly happen that would do that?
unidentified
I don't know if it would be the capture of bin Laden or something in that area will occur that will be a positive that will either show that he was taking a good course for much of the time.
I would certainly agree that some better outcome, some good outcome in Iraq could cause the president's ratings to significantly go up.
After all, if Iraq did become some form of democracy or at least was settled in some way and the U.S. was then able to maintain bases in Iraq and stabilize the Mideast, I do think that the president would do well.
But that's quite a feat, the way things are looking right now.
So I don't know.
First time caller line, Anthony in Alpine, California.
You're on the air.
Anthony going once, going twice, gone.
I hate to see somebody wait and then not get on the air.
Wildcard line, Mel, Flint, Michigan, you're on the air.
unidentified
Yeah, Art.
Glad to have you back.
Thank you.
I think it's very eminent, and so I'm going to drop a dime on it for this year.
I think they may start rebuilding Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.
Well, if, you know, they're saying that a small black hole, a miniature black hole, would be benign, that it would disappear virtually instantly, not swallowing anything at all.
Now, of course, there's always a margin for error.
It could be they would create a black hole and it would absorb everything.
That would be horrible.
unidentified
Right, because the worst case scenario, the worst case scenario has the Earth being swallowed in about 11 minutes.
Especially if you're about 11 minutes, you know, the Earth just sort of collapses inward to this black hole that then sort of wanders aimlessly around the universe.
The official, the only official recorded numbered predictions made by you for the year 2007.
We do it two nights only annually, and this is the second night of those predictions.
So if you can dig deep into your psychic center and you've got something that'll really cook, black holes swallowing us.
I don't like that one, but I'll take it.
Anything you think is going to happen in 2007 that you really psychically believe is going to occur, grab the phone and get it recorded right in front of the whole world.
I'm Art Bell, and in a moment, Coast to Coast AM continues back to biz.
I predict that one of the U.S. Supreme Court justices will resign in shame owing to a personal scandal, a shocking scandal that comes out and becomes public knowledge this year.
Hey, I got a gut feeling that the researchers, could be either the Mongolian or folks that are not Mongolian researchers are going to find the grave of Temu Chin, the great Khan, Genghis Khan, this year coming up here.
Most people wouldn't realize it, but Alaska and Mongolia have a sister state relationship.
And I was able to talk to many of their senior military folks and senior politicians.
And during the time of the Soviet occupation, which lasted up into almost 95, because the Russians didn't even have the money to take their forces out of there to land, the Soviets had kept the area where Genghis Khan's grave is thought to be, an area northeast of Ulaanbatar.
And that area is now open.
I was actually allowed to go in there and go to one of their former air bases that was there.
But there are all sorts of apocryphal tales that all of the people in the burial party were killed when he was buried and that they used herds of horses to sort of pound over the ground.
And then soldiers were left there until the trees grew up around there.
And those tales sort of seem to be apocryphal, but the Mongols oftentimes would leave these great treasures for the Khans in places that wouldn't be ransacked.
So if they find his grave, will they find great treasure?
unidentified
Well, I think what we'll do is it's the beginning of the resurgence of a Mongol empire.
not one that's conquering, but the rise of the Mongol people to their right state.
Because if you look at, you know, most people think that...
Yes, they did.
As far as everybody can tell, yes, he was.
And there's different reasons as to why he died.
He may have died falling off a horse or during a hunt or during an attack on the Western Zia Chinese.
And it's not known, but it is pretty much known that this area that was formerly kept secret under the Soviets, and even before that was kept as a restricted area amongst the Mongol people, the Trail of Crumbs is certainly leading to that area, and I think something's going to happen this year.
I had a vision come to me the other day, and that vision is that the U.S. government is going to become aware, and they're going to regulate and heavily tax all the millions of dollars that are traded hands every day in internet gambling.
You know, I wonder, I've Been wondering why internet gambling is legal.
Do you have any thoughts on that?
I have no idea.
In other words, gambling, for the most part, other than what, New Jersey, a few river boats on the Mississippi and here in Nevada, is pretty much not legal.
So the Internet comes along, and now everybody, if they want to, can gamble, literally, on the Internet.
And I don't, they've got to either do one of two things.
They've got to outlaw it, or as you point out, they would have to tax it.
unidentified
It's also easier to transfer large amounts of money to friends over the Internet without anyone knowing.
I know that Jimmy Carter, he's done some pretty impressive negotiations in the past, and I just think it's going to be a big year for him, and maybe he can convince them.
There's a lot of good character, especially with all the negativity that's been going on.
It's nice to hear people really digging deep.
Mine is not all that fantabulous, but I do believe it will become true, and that is a large earthquake somewhere in America in an unlikely location, possibly secretive area, will occur to really wake people up to, you know, we have earthquakes from every so often.
That just really shakes people up.
Excuse the sun.
And gets them thinking about earthquakes and then subsequent flooding.
And I'm originally from western Kentucky, and a lot of people don't talk much about the New Madrid Fault, but it's way overdue.
And then with a lot of the weather changes, animal behavior, and just from my little knowledge of the seismic activity that's been going on just in the last year and a half, I don't see how it can last much longer.
But then I just feel like somewhere else in America that it's going to, not so much there, but somewhere else, it's going to really just shake, rattle, and roll.
We are doing recorded, numbered predictions, public predictions.
So if you get it right, millions of people know it.
30 minutes or so to the new year here on the West Coast.
I'm Art Bell.
Here I am.
Let me review a few more of the majorly bonked predictions for 2006 before the break.
Randall from Alberta, this would be 77, said Benjamin Netanyahu becomes new Israeli leader, launches preemptive strike against nuclear facilities in Iran.
Logical, but nevertheless a bonk.
Janice from Illinois, two of our four living former presidents will die due to natural causes.
A third will lapse into dementia.
Well, close, but a bonk.
79, George from California.
Al-Zakari will not be caught.
Well, bonk.
Linda, battle will be fought on American soil.
A big one?
No, bonk.
81, something cataclysmic happens in 2006.
Has to do with Turkey.
The event culminates in the assassination of someone high in our government.
Well, see, I wouldn't let her say who it was, so that's a bonk.
Anyway, there were no big assassinations.
82, Paul in Ohio, Atlanta, Georgia will rise to new prominence.
I guess that's a bonk.
I don't know that Atlanta has come into some giant new prominence.
83, Patty from Nevada, Mexico will go to war with us over the border fence.
Bonk.
84, caller from Toronto, human race will discover their power within and become more ethical.
The cause, none other than the caller's new book.
Bonk.
85, asteroid impact.
Bonk.
86, Bill from California said earthquakes in California, solar flares cause auroras in South America.
Bonk.
We did have them, but not down that far.
87, a caller from Ohio, AMD, will release a 6 gigahertz chip.
I'm going to tentatively ding that.
I think we are up to 6 gigahertz, but I'm not sure.
I think we're there, so ding.
88, Joseph in Alabama, fire at Smithsonian Institution.
Something strange will be discovered in the aftermath.
I believe that's bonk.
89, Elizabeth from Washington, the younger British prince will be king.
I think that's a ding, right?
The younger British prince will be king.
I think that's a ding.
Tell me if I'm wrong.
No, I have to.
Let's see.
Ivan from New Zealand, 90, a major figure in the British royal family will pass away.
I think I'm putting a question mark there.
Was there a major figure in the British royal family that passed away?
I'll hold judgment on that.
91, Cat from New Jersey, widespread disease in America, Atlanta, very important because of the headquarters of the CDC and the infected masses believe that the cure lies there.
Well, it certainly would, but it didn't.
Bonk.
I'll go here and just do one more.
Anthony from Florida.
The east coast of the U.S. will be hit by a tidal wave.
Thank goodness.
That's a bonk.
All right.
In a moment, we will continue with predictions for 2007.
All right.
Here we go.
Prediction number 73 is going to be next, and it's going to be made by Chris in Denver, Colorado.
Hi, Chris.
unidentified
Yes, sir.
Hi, Art.
I have a prediction about a new kind of music coming out in 2007.
We're due, by the way, for something new based on whale music.
unidentified
Yeah, I think it'll have a message that will be interpreted in the music, in the human language, and what they have to tell us through the mainstream, either be on the internet or in the mainstream.
We're overdue, aren't we, for a shift in the music world?
And what an unusual shift that would be if we began to understand what the whales are singing at a higher level, that is to say.
Let me look at some of these.
People are asking, by the way, in droves, whether I'm screening calls.
And the answer is, yes, indeed, I am screening calls.
There was not enough time to get the phone lines in here so that I could directly pick them up.
So we are doing call screening.
And I don't have the normals set up here.
In other words, I'm not playing my own music and that sort of thing.
The board ops are doing that.
So just so you know, on the record, just as we were doing from Manila, because of the time element, the network had, bless their hearts.
And I want to thank Bill Hickey and Trevor Oliver and a lot of other people who, once, and I gave them very, very short notice that I was going to return to the U.S., they got up here like that and got enough of a setup so That I could get on the air when I got back home because we had these critical prediction shows to do.
So the answer is yes, we are screening calls, and I suspect that we'll get back to the norm, for me, anyway, eventually, and get the lines in and all the rest of it.
But just for the sake of laying it out the way it is, we are screening calls.
All right, well, I've got it, and I hope to hell you're wrong.
The people of the Philippines have had enough happen to them recently.
The current situation, there are communications in the Philippines right now, but it's very spotty.
And as you know, there was a large earthquake in Taiwan, and that cut all of the fiber cables that went to the Philippines.
So communications are being rerouted, but they're spotty, not good at all.
And with all the typhoons that have hit the Philippines, the earthquakes, the tsunamis, it's just, it's been a rough time for the Philippines, and I got to experience most of it while I was there.
So I certainly don't want to have more happening, but that part of the world, undeniably, is very, very active.
Let's go to the international line, Nova Scotia, all the way to Nova Scotia with Al.
Buddy, well, my prediction is there's going to be a well-known Canadian politician who belongs to the Liberal Party will be revealed as an alien, man Leah Gray.
You know, we've got to get going with energy, some sort of alternative energy, because as we continue to pump oil in pipelines and carry it in tankers, the inevitable, the inevitable will continue to occur.
West of the Rockies, again in Alaska, Frenchie, hello.
Thank you for shutting that woman down on your singing thing.
And anybody that's such a fruit loop that's going to say, yeah, I can predict people that can change lanes and backing out of their driveway and stuff like that, any fool can see that because that's what directional lights are for and backup lights are for.
Well, I know, but I think he was going past the signaling part of it and knowing what they would do.
There are people who are pretty good at that kind of thing.
unidentified
Okay.
My prediction is going to be that Art Bell, that will be you, sir, is going to stop being a pansy about this mass consciousness thing, and you're going to start using yourself in your program to try to get things done, like, for instance, securing the border, stop abortion, have some UFO sightings over the White House, little things like that.
Well, I can tell you right now, I can tell you right now, buddy, that you're off in Fruit Loopville yourself because I am committed not to use it unless we're virtually looking at the end of the world.
unidentified
Yeah, but if you use it for good things, I mean, a UFO over the White House isn't a bad thing.
Yeah, but see, the problem is you cannot guarantee that.
That's the problem.
You simply cannot guarantee that.
So there you go.
I don't know what to say to you except that bonk.
I'm bonking that right now.
But I'll leave it down.
Actually, I'll leave it right there.
East of the Rockies, Frank in Queens, New York.
unidentified
Yes, this is E. Frank from Astoria Queens, New York City.
Yeah, I just want to make a prediction for 2007.
You know, my prediction is that they will discover a secret document in Saddam Hussein's home in Tikrit, Iraq, that will prove that one of President George W. Bush's ancestors wrote the book of Daniel from the Old Testament in the 14th century.
Well, they're going to find a secret document, Art, that will prove that one of the ancestors of President Bush wrote the book of Daniel.
He had a premonition that these things would come to light in the 21st century.
And it was written.
And even though they state that the book of Daniel was written in the first century or before that time, they're going to discover that it was basically submitted and changed around in the 14th century.
And they're going to find that it was written in an English cottage during that Renaissance period.
That said, before I can come back and talk with you again, actually, Erin will be here.
It's going to be midnight.
It's going to be the new year here on the West Coast.
And then she heads toward Alaska and Hawaii.
So, folks, get ready.
Here it comes.
I'm Art Bell.
That's right.
From the high desert, here is Art Bell.
Happy New Year, everybody.
Boy, they've got, I'm telling you, it went off in Las Vegas, and it's still going off.
What an incredible celebration is going on right now in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Holy smokes, they're going berserk.
Listen, I'm going to take a moment out here, and I'm going to let Erin, who's, what, three or four days now only in the United States, say hello to all of you.
So it'll be a little clumsy because I've got to put this mic on her head.
So here we go.
unidentified
Hello.
Happy, happy new year to everyone.
Hope this year, 2007, is a good year to all of us.
So thank you so much for your email, for sending us your welcome home for art and also for me.
And especially for those who send the email about baked potato.
It's crazy, but it's true.
I'm really craving for baked potato.
And tonight we made our own baked potato during our dinner and we made it.
And so thank you so much for that.
And once again, happy, happy new year.
Put smile in your face for the next long year.
So thank you so much.
And happy, happy new year, especially to my sister Sharon, Carl, and his family.
105, Linda in Indiana in the first week of May 2006.
Mount Denali will explode, taking Yellowstone with it.
The Mid-Continent Rift will open.
God, a bonk.
106, Jason from Oregon, Michio Kaku will confirm that time travel to the past and perpetual motion go hand in hand.
And that's certainly a bonk.
107, Brenda from Alberta, Canada.
Super drought in North America.
Farmers will be devastated.
Food prices will skyrocket.
And there was a second prediction, which shouldn't have been allowed.
Secrets of Coral Castle revealed.
And that's a bonk.
Now, there was some drought, certainly in North America, but not anything that drove food prices through the roof.
Oh, let me keep going here.
In 2006, Art Bell will produce a new 30-minute radio program three to five times a week.
That is a bonk.
That was 108.
Okay, I'll stop there for now, and we will continue with predictions.
It was a bad, bad year, wasn't it?
For 2007, I've got a feel.
We're doing much, much better.
I have a feeling we're doing better is what I guess I ought to say.
Diana in Fort Myers, Florida, you're on the air.
unidentified
Art, I love your wife.
She's a sweetheart.
And happy to her, too.
Bless her heart.
But I wanted to say, and I'm serious in this, not since the time of the Grapes of the Raft, you know, the John Steinbeck movie, but I see a drought, a major drought, a dust bowl from Texas all the way up into the Canadian borderline even.
And people will be displaced and moved because of it.
But the flip side is where you're at, it's going to become a wetland with even new rivers.
Yeah, I'm afraid that one is absolutely going to occur.
So it's a safe bet you're making, and that actually is a concern to me because I live here in the desert that regularly experiences some of the highest temperatures.
What I will hope, because I realize and have realized for a long time that global warming is inevitable.
I've seen the process underway, as you all well know.
And I guess I have to hope that whatever effect it has produces more rainfall in the desert.
Now, that certainly is a distinct possibility, because as I mentioned, if the temperatures here went up significantly, it would become unlivable if for a couple of weeks during the summer, we can get temperatures that approach 116 degrees or so.
And that's kind of on the edge of what people can stand and live with.
And, of course, we live with it with air conditioning.
But if you were to push that up another 10 degrees, you're really talking about an uninhabitable place.
So this is one of those places that's kind of on the edge.
Some shorelines are going to experience erosion because of rising sea levels.
Other areas will experience temperature differentials.
And we're in just one of those, you know, edgy kind of areas where we couldn't stand very much.
Let's go to, let's see, East of the Rockies, I guess, and John in the Bronx, New York.
Wouldn't that be weird if some small country that we did not expect suddenly announced they were a nuclear power?
unidentified
Right.
And again, not somebody that would be considered hostile, but that doesn't like the current conditions around the world where they're not secure with global, with international law and everything like that, where countries don't trust each other anymore.
So I see that either next year in 207 or 2008, unless political conditions change and we get more professional statesmen like Ford was that can get countries to act together again and trust each other.
I would say your prediction is one of the more interesting.
And believe me, that's a high compliment because we've had some darn good ones.
All right, thank you, and take care.
Number 82, that could happen.
Think about it.
Some small country that you wouldn't expect, perhaps some South American country that has been secretly working on a nuclear weapon, you know, refining or perhaps even purchasing refined uranium, enriched uranium, and they suddenly simply announce they are now in the list of countries that possess nuclear weapons.
I wonder what we would do.
This really has been, it may be an interesting year.
If even a small part of these come true, it's going to be an interesting year, isn't it?
Wildcard line is Joe in Boston.
You're on the air, Joe.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
Welcome back to the U.S. Thank you.
Erin misses her hometown.
I don't know what it's like to live in the tropics, but it must be rough.
I have a prediction.
I have a question for you.
A prediction is that we will go either into North Korea or Tehran this year, or Iran.
I'm not saying it right.
I hope we don't.
And so does your screener.
I hope we don't, because it's a terrible thing when we get mixed up in that.
George Bush, I know, wants to go into that country, those countries.
First, two years ago, I told you I was six for six, and my on-air predictions that year was for race wars, I said, which happened in U.S. and Paris and Australia, and that put me seven for seven.
Now, Art, my prediction for last year was number 33, if you have it.
On October the 28th, I seen on the CNN ticker tape at the bottom of the screen, it said actress Adrian Shelley was found stabbed to death at her home by a construction worker.
But I'm telling you right now, there are people researching, and if it turns out that Adrian Shelley was an unknown, wasn't an actress, you know, it's going back to a bonk.
This is not really a coast-to-coast topic, but if you remember, there was a wrestling tragedy in 1997 of Owen Hart, where he plummeted from the top of the cable and he plummeted down to the ring.
C-H-A-N-T-I-X is a new drug that apparently or claims to affect the brain's receptors, not allowing nicotine to attach to the receptors, which I guess really does do the job, I'm told, by many people.
So I'm going to go get some from my doctor, and we'll see if we can complete the task here.
I'm close.
unidentified
Well, you're going to be inspired by your surroundings, and this is going to be the real cause for you to quit.
In late 2007, a man with a distinguished military career with very strong libertarian leanings will announce his candidacy for President of the United States.
And he is the wild card that's yet to be played.
He will not be a darling by the media.
He'll be something and someone totally unique that we've seen in politics in many, many years, if ever.
And that is my point.
Awesome.
Wonderful.
Well, good luck with your baby, and Happy New Year to you and Aaron.
Well, you know, I saw a recent news story indicating that the American automobile industry was supposed to make a comeback this year.
But you could be right.
unidentified
I don't think it's going to.
It's going to get worse for them people.
I myself, I'm a security guard, and I wouldn't even want to be a security guard at a place that even made anything to do with cars because I don't have faith in anything to do with cars.
Sooner or later, you know, you're going to get laid off or they're going to close your plan or something because it's dwindling down.
It's getting worse.
They're going to offer these people another big buyout this year.
You know, and it's just going to get worse and worse.
Well, I guess in a way that would be an ultimate both failure and success.
I mean, if we're wrong, well, I hope you're wrong, too.
But if you're not, then it would be kind of an ultimate success, even though it would represent a failure.
Actually, sir, if you think about it, it would be not just a failure of coast, but it would be a failure of the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights and everything else that we cherish as American citizens.
So if the CIA and FBI got together and decided they didn't...
I think that COAST exists, continues to exist, because groups like the CIA and FBI, although I'm sure they're worried And bugged and even angry at times.
We've had the government very angry at us, believe me.
But I think they're able to kind of write us off as conspiracy kooks, UFO people.
And frankly, to some degree, that is what we are.
However, we're a lot more.
We all know that.
I think they simply kind of write us off that way, though.
Well, you know, a lot of people fault and joke about people like Brett because they, you know, they talk about retirement year after year after year and or retire and then come back.
It's a very common thing among popular sports figures and people in the media.
Look at me.
I've retired.
I've tried to retire a few times, but it's in your blood.
And so I'll add to your prediction.
And I'll bet that if Brett Favre retires, he makes a comeback.
unidentified
Oh, I don't think that.
I think he'll just, if he retires, he'll maybe take a year or two off, and then he'll go into the media and be like one of the broadcasts.
Okay, my prediction is this, that President Bush will appoint his brother, Jeb Bush, now the ex-governor of Florida, as a special emissary to Latin America.
And I feel that this appointment will be announced within the next two months.
2006 was a terrible, terrible year for predictions.
Let me continue with just a few more.
112, Sean from California.
The truth will be revealed about TWA Flight 800.
It was shot down.
Bonk.
113, Tom from New Jersey.
I'm not saying it wasn't, by the way.
Tom from New Jersey, massive ethnic violence in Mexico.
Well, there was some trouble in southern Mexico, but massive?
No, bonk.
114, Jeff from Missouri, a zombie plague.
Now, that would have been interesting, but it's bonk.
115, Mexico border trouble.
People from the U.S. enter Mexico to prevent immigration with bows and arrows.
If he hadn't added with bows and arrows, I probably could have dinged that.
There certainly has been plenty of border trouble and talk of border trouble.
But bows and arrows?
Bonk.
116.
Mad in Israel.
Ariel Sharon won't make it through 2006.
Mad in Israel.
I'm not sure what that means, but I'll give it a.
I'll try a ding on this and see what happens.
117, December 18th, 2006.
Osama bin Laden killed.
In retaliation, a dirty bomb will detonate.
Bonk.
And 118, Michael from Texas said a comet and or asteroid will strike Earth in May.
Bonk.
So there you have a few more.
The record is very poor.
I've got some that we'll review at the bottom of the hour.
But in a moment, when we come back, we will continue with predictions.
And I have much higher hopes for 2007.
I am really enjoying this year's predictions.
There's just something about it.
You're doing a tremendous job.
Wildguard Line, you're on the air, Chris, in New York.
unidentified
Hey, Art.
I just want to preface this by saying that I have a really terrible feeling about this prediction.
I have a feeling that it's maybe even something awful.
Okay.
My prediction for 2007 is that it's going to be revealed that the sun is actually a sentenent entity and that this revelation is going to first be revealed to the Russians.
It's basically the way to describe it is after a processor puts, draws the stuff on the screen like an L C D screen, it doesn't have to keep it powered up.
It can actually shut down, which instead of having hours on a battery, you can actually have weeks on the battery.
If they decide to put more troops in Iraq, and I think that's what they're going to do.
unidentified
It's going to be even more NADART.
I do believe, you know, that I think North Korea, I think that guy, even though if he doesn't attack the U.S., he's going to draw the U.S. into a confrontation by sending a missile over to either Japan or South Korea.
That would take a gigantic change in mindset in the country.
What do you think could produce that, sir?
unidentified
The indications like the ice that broke off last week, satellite photos that's floating around out there that may hit ships.
And here in Fort Lauderdale, I'm, what, a mile and a half from the Atlantic Ocean near Commercial Boulevard, all it takes is a few feet, and hotels are underwater, and it takes just one little thing like that combined with several others around the country to where people say, you know what, we do have a problem here.
You know, I'm going to make a statement right now.
I'm going to bet you that the predictions that you all have made on these two programs this year, and I guess really now it's 2007 technically, so a few hours into the new year, I am going to be willing to bet you that we get a better hit rate out of these predictions than any of the professional psychics who come on the air and make predictions.
That's my prediction.
That's how much I believe in what I've been hearing the last couple of days.
East of the Rockies, Rob in Hammond, Indiana, you're on the air.
And this dream that I've been having the last few nights is a little bit more gossipier than or gossipier than most of my predictions.
But basically my prediction is that in 2007, one of the news hosts of one of the CNN news programs will be taken off the air due to an inappropriate affair.
I don't really want to name names because I don't really have it that clear, but I think it's either Nancy.
We'll, in a moment, review the last of the main failures made last year and make a few more predictions.
I'm Art Bell.
Yes, indeed.
Here I am.
Well, this is probably a fair moment for reflection just before the break.
Man, you heard from Aaron shortly after midnight.
And how did all this happen?
A lot of people are asking.
Very briefly, it happened this way.
As you all know, I lost the love of my life, Ramona.
And I was in a very bad place, a very extremely dark place.
And I began getting emails from this young Filipino gal in my private email.
And of course, they were condolences, but they were coming in my private email.
Now, I had thousands and thousands of condolences that came in my public emails.
But how in the world could I be getting these private emails from a young Filipino gal on the other side of the world?
I couldn't figure it out.
And for a long time, I was in too much shock to even ask.
Anyway, it developed into one of those things that went on for months.
And finally, we ended up doing video conferences.
And I don't know.
It's just, it's one of those things.
Months went by, and I decided the only, I just fell for this gal, and she fell for me.
The way it happened, anyway, to cut all this short is a very good friend of mine, Carl Richardson, who was engaged at that point to Aaron's sister, is now married to Erin's sister, and she's back in the U.S., knew how in what a dark place I was.
And so he asked Sharon, Erin's sister, to ask Erin to write to me.
That's how it all began.
And at that point, Erin was about to graduate from college.
And in fact, I attended her graduation from college.
I was actually there when she graduated.
I decided the only real way to know was to go to the Philippines.
And so, as you well know, I did.
I went to the Philippines, and I met her.
And everything that I thought was true turned out to be completely true.
And I knew she was a young gal, way too young.
But nevertheless, at this point, we're in love.
And so we married.
And I stayed in the Philippines.
Well, I was there for, what, about eight months, something like that.
And as I mentioned to that caller, it certainly is a May, December 31st relationship.
But love has a way of just bridging the gap ever so neatly.
And so we kind of never think about it.
I guess I thought about it very heavily, and I counseled her heavily against the whole idea.
But she pressed and pressed and pressed.
And here we are.
So it was a tragic and then a very happy year, and it may be a very blessed year ahead.
She's quite a gal.
I wish I could tell you more.
And I really could tell you more, but I just, I guess that's it.
Let's look at the remaining probably bonks.
Let's take a good look.
119, Robert from Massachusetts.
Government will announce that in the event of calamity, it is not responsible for its citizens.
That would be a bad move, bonk.
120.
Charlie in Florida says, proof of the Creator revealed.
Well, not positive proof, bonk.
121, Margaret from Massachusetts, Virgin Mary will appear in person in Bayside, New York.
People believe it.
I'm going to bonk that with a question, Mark.
I hadn't heard it.
122, Wade from Oregon, Blu-ray disc beats HD DVD in the new format war.
I'm not sure that's occurred, but I'm going to give that a tentative ding.
Certainly, I think Blu-ray has the edge, and I wish it would hurry up and get out.
123, race war between Mexican Americans and African Americans.
It creates media frenzy.
Thank God, that's a bonk.
124, Steve from California, jet stream changes course and wreaks havoc with Southern California.
Ensuing cloud of gas essentially turns us into rabid zombies.
And that would be a definite bonk.
And that also, being 129, is the last prediction for 2006.
In a moment, we will return to predictions for 2007.
Okay.
My board op advises me that prediction 123, a race war between Mexican Americans and African Americans, it creates media frenzy, is perhaps dingable.
I didn't ding it, but he says that in Southern California, there has been a lot of that going on between gangs, and it is hitting the media in Southern California.
So that's a localized ding, but certainly not on a national scale.
So that's the first one that gets a localized ding and a national Bonk.
We're about to go back to well, no, let's just do it.
Back to predictions.
My goodness, look at this.
Wildcard line for a mafia mike, somebody I know right here in Perump.
I don't fully understand it, but I tell you, I've had nothing less than 2,000 emails saying exactly the same thing.
It was interesting.
Earlier, I listened to a show that I had done in the Philippines, you know, a repeat before we came on live.
And I thought I sounded exactly the same.
In fact, I marveled at the quality of the audio.
And yet, thousands of emails are just saying it's incredible to have you back.
Now everything feels right, and I don't fully understand it, but there you are.
unidentified
I have, I think, a good prediction.
Okay.
I am going to predict that sometime in 2007, oceanic research groups will be successful with political decisions and research methods in increasing the amount of fish in the ocean by at least 2%, in all the bodies of water worldwide.
Well, that would certainly be a wonderful prediction because otherwise, the scientists are saying now, if nothing changes in the next 50 years, all the fish will be gone.
unidentified
And I'm not picturing that, and I know coast-to-coast listeners are not picturing that.
And I really feel humanity can, we can learn.
We can learn before tragedy occurs.
And I want to say Happy New Year, and I will be listening to your show.
Yeah, and just the fact of these dry Christmases, even like I'm formerly from Alberta, like northern Alberta, and I remember a thunderstorm on Christmas Day in northern Alberta, which is basically unheard of.
Well, can you imagine coming from near the equator, from where she has come from, which is basically way out in the styx, to suddenly coming to North America.
Boy, I'll tell you, she had a little bit of decompression going to Manila, but then ending up in America.
Four days in America.
What must it feel like?
I can only begin to guess from my, of course, I'm a world traveler, but having spent the time that I did in the Philippines, I can imagine what she's going through.
And it should be interesting.
Rusty in Millbury, California, you're on the air and perhaps the last.
unidentified
Well, I wish you a very happy and prosperous new year.
That would seem to be insane, because if we determined that a nation-state launched a chemical attack on a U.S. city, we would, without question, I think, retaliate with nuclear weapons, and we have so many that we would turn whoever it is into dust.
You have a wonderful night, and take care, and I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you in so many different ways for, I don't know, I guess bearing with me through the last year, which has been just a horrible year, and then a wonderful year, and hopefully a joyful year ahead.
That's something to look forward to.
And I hope all of you out there have a joyful year ahead.
So there's the sound of Crystal.
That's Crystal Gale, and she's just the right mood.