Art Bell’s 2008 Predictions Night 1 (2007) features callers forecasting Euro dominance, a $50/barrel oil crash by May, Guantanamo’s return to Cuba, and Ron Paul’s presidency with Area 51 tours. Others warn of Yellowstone eruptions, dirty nukes in Iraq, or the U.S. dollar collapsing March 10–15, while dismissing Bush’s election avoidance via Directive No. 51. A caller predicts a steamroller mass homicide near Charleston, and another envisions a North American unified currency by 2008—echoing fears of economic instability amid global shifts. Skepticism lingers as Bell critiques past misses, yet the episode underscores how fringe predictions often reflect real-world anxieties over geopolitics, finance, and disaster. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world's time zones, each and every one covered like a blanket by this program.
Coast to coast, A.M. I. Mart Bell, filling in.
I'm not sure who I'm filling in for.
Raleigh James, maybe Ian or George.
Anyway, I'm here tonight, and I know I'll be filling in for George tomorrow night, so I'm filling in for whoever would have been here this night, otherwise.
All the ABs are well.
That would be Art Bell, me.
Aaron Bell, Asia Bell.
The little furry ones as well.
Yeti, Abby, Dolly.
All well.
As a matter of fact, there is a photograph taken of Asia Christmas.
So just a few days ago, up on the website right now, CoastCoastAM.com, just go to the very top.
You'll see arts webcam.
Click on that and you'll see a picture of Asia.
She is as cute as can be and today is seven months old.
Now she rolls over.
She is beginning to think about crawling and all that kind of thing.
So right on course, on glide path, as she should be.
I am going through a bit of an odyssey.
Three weeks, as you know, some time ago, I gave up smoking and I took up nicotine gum.
Well, that helps, I guess, your lungs.
But, you know, I found that you become hooked on nicotine gum.
So three weeks ago, I gave up all nicotine, including the gum, and I'm taking something called Shantex, which is a unique, you've got to get a prescription from your doctor to do it.
And what Shantex, C-H-A-N-T-I-X, what it does is block the receptors in your brain, I guess, to the effects of nicotine.
And so for three weeks, I've been without nicotine.
And I'll tell you, it has been an adventure.
They tell me that nicotine, and of course I smoked for, what, 40 some odd years, is as difficult or more so to give up than heroin.
And at this point in my experiment to give it up, I can say they're right.
It probably is.
Not that I was ever hooked on heroin, but if anything's harder than this, it's just impossible to imagine.
All right, we are here gathering this night and tomorrow night to do an annual thing, and that is predictions for the coming year.
As this year wraps up, and it's rapidly doing that, isn't it?
It's been quite a year, and we'll, of course, review it and the predictions we took last year for this year.
This is a unique process.
And we have rules for what's about to happen.
Number one, every prediction we take will be numbered.
You'll receive a number, and then it'll be reviewed next year.
There are no pros allowed, unless you can go down the lines.
And by that, I mean no pros.
No remote viewers, no professionals, psychics, just all of you.
There is one prediction per customer only.
One only.
So I want you to think very, very hard before you begin dialing.
No predictions of domestic assassinations allowed.
And the reason for that is that when you predict presidents and political leaders of various sorts getting assassinated, I get visits from the Secret Service.
And that occurs because somebody out there in Missouri somewhere calls up and says, they said so-and-so was going to get assassinated.
And of course, Secret Service has to do what they do, and it wastes their time.
So, therefore, no predictions of that sort allowed.
Now, here's the deal, folks.
This audience, the Coast audience, is a special audience.
I think you have more insight, more sensitivity to things like predictions, to things like anticipating the future, catching it in a dream, catching it in an intuitive flash of a moment.
However it is, you get it.
You're a little bit ahead of the game of any other audience in the land, the world, because this is the kind of thing that this audience is interested in, right?
So I would ask that again, before you call, and I know some of you will have done this prior to the show and be ready to make your prediction, and that's fine.
But for those of you who have not yet made it, don't just call.
Please, think really hard about it.
Go deep inside your psychic center and try to come up with something that's realistic.
Now, for example, every year, California is predicted to fall into the sea.
The Pope is predicted to die.
They see the Pope's death.
Nuclear war is seen every year.
You get the idea, right?
Now, thus far, none of those things have happened.
They've always been bonks.
I suppose the Pope goes every now and then, right?
But aside from that, nuclear war has not yet occurred.
And if so, we probably wouldn't be doing the program.
California has not yet fallen into the sea, or my real estate here in Nevada would be considerably more valuable.
So, you know, if you want to predict that, you can.
I'm not going to say you cannot predict that kind of thing.
I'm just saying the likelihood of it coming true, Giving a lot of years now of waiting for it is pretty low.
Reviewing 2007, what kind of year it was, according to the Associated Press, the 10 big stories: 10 would be Iran's nuclear program, or now I guess we could say lack of it.
Nine would be the immigration debate.
I thought that would have been higher.
Eight would be the presidential campaign.
I'm sure that'll move up to number one for the coming year.
Seven, the bridge collapse in Minnesota.
Six, global warming.
Five, Chinese exports.
Ah, those toys.
Four, oil prices.
Three, the Iraq War.
Two, the mortgage crisis.
That could well move up to number one.
And number one, the Virginia Tech killings.
So in a moment, I'm going to open the lines.
And again, please, above all, remember you only get one prediction.
That's it.
I'll give it a number.
It'll be held in the Bell Vault for a year and then pulled out, just as I now have in my hand.
And by the way, the ones that you made for 2007, I've given an initial quick review.
And I would say the first half you did very poorly.
The second half you did quite well.
So kind of a passing grade is what I would give you.
And you'll see what I mean.
The first, oh, I don't know, 50 or so are not so good.
And the last 50 are pretty good.
So I'm not sure what that means.
But in a moment, we'll open the lines and we'll see what you think is coming for 2008.
Again, please consider carefully.
Here are the numbers.
West of the Rockies, 1-800-618-8255.
East of the Rockies, 1-800-825-5033.
First time callers, you're welcome at Area Code 818-5014721.
Wildcard Line.
Area Code 818-501-40.
Make that 4109.
I'm No Ross Mitchell, International Line, 800-893-0903.
In a moment, your predictions.
Now, there is one other difference tonight, everybody, if you're used to calling the program, and that is that we're not going to screen calls.
There is absolutely no point.
I know that everybody calling is going to have a prediction, so there's no point in screening calls.
Therefore, when you get a ring on whatever line you're dialing on, just let it ring.
You know, we'll get to you.
And it's kind of interesting because if you're calling one of the 818 numbers, that means you're not charged until we actually pick up, which is a good deal.
It has, for those who don't know, it was a very hot summer here in the desert, and it's been a damn cold winter.
My God, the winds have blown here, and it's cold.
Right, Collar?
unidentified
Oh, I tell you, when the winds get going out here, I mean, people look and they might look at the weather and think, oh, it's 30 or 40 in Vegas, and that's not too bad where they're at.
All right, that's a perfectly reasonable kind of prediction to be making, in my opinion.
And very likely to come true with global warming.
And that's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Instead of predicting California falling into the ocean or a nine-point earthquake somewhere, while these things might happen, they're pretty unlikely.
So try and come up with something that your mind tells you really will happen.
On the other hand, if you come with the nine-pointers or California going into the ocean, I'll not turn you away.
So Mitt Romney and Giuliani, I would think probably as you gave it to me, if it were to happen, it'd be Mitt Romney and Giuliani as vice president, but that'd just be my guess.
You really see that as a strong possibility, sir, that anybody on the right Is going to get elected.
Well, in other words, next year, at about this time, I'll read back the predictions that have been made, and yours, as number two, will be adjudged to be, you know, a very wise prediction, and we'll listen to everything you have to say from that point forward, or you will have missed it and will say, gee, not much of a psychic mind there.
My prediction is that as many in the coast-to-coast audience know, there's an asteroid known as 2007WD-5 headed for Mars right now, and it's 164 feet wide, and it's supposed to impact Mars with a 1 in 25 chance at the end of January.
Some parts of a broken building, that sort of thing?
unidentified
Yeah, it's kind of like if you go back and look at Richard Hoagland's website, there's a lot of satellite imagery that was taken that shows grid-like formations underneath the surface, probably just dozens of buildings.
And I believe it's going to come to the forefront, and indeed she will be under oath along with Al Gore and Ed Rendell and the leadership of the Democratic Party.
Well, I'll take that and I'll put it down as number four, but I am suspicious of that as being both a promo and a political wish.
I kind of wish we would keep political wishes, be they for good or evil, out of this.
And if I see one more, you know, if I see one coming my way that's even more clearly so than that one, I will strike it.
Because I don't want political, I don't want you to use your phone call and your prediction ability to, I don't know, make a political statement or a political wish or something like that.
I want these really to be psychic-centered predictions.
First time, call or line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello, how are you?
I have a prediction that is this Chris from New York City?
So as you can see, a pretty poor mark for the first part of the predictions made last year.
Therefore, when you make your prediction for this year, and so far they've been quite realistic, think it through, go to your very psychic center, and come up with one that's going to happen this coming year.
We'll be right back.
By the way, a lot of people fast blasting me, like this man from Portland, Oregon, who says, Art, welcome back.
Good luck on quitting smoking.
One positive thing in stopping smoking is your chances of super gluing your lip a lot lower.
Others saying, hey, Art, they say the drug Shentex makes you have bizarre and sometimes frightening dreams.
Would be interested in your comments.
That's from Santa Fe.
Yes.
One of the side effects of Shentex is clearly dreaming a lot.
And I like a little slice of death when I go to sleep.
And that's why I started Chantex and then stopped because, oh my God, I started dreaming like crazy.
Well, that put me off for a few months.
And I went back a second time to Chantex and said, the hell with it, I want to quit smoking.
It really does work.
I'll put up with the dreams.
And frankly, the dreams have not been bad.
For the most part, they've been pretty good dreams.
Not very many bad dreams at all, but a lot of them.
So that is one side effect and but one.
There are a couple.
So dreaming, yes, you'll have dreams.
If you enjoy dreams, you're going to love Shandex because it'll cause you to just dream like crazy.
So again, it's a thing, though, that you cannot just go out and buy.
You've got to get a doctor's prescript for Shandex.
All right, let's go wildcard line one and say you're on the air.
I reached into my psychic center, and I predict that in a major metropolitan area, possibly New York, there will be at least one helicopter crash into a building.
Okay, my prediction for 2008, I believe that former guest of yours, Bugs, I believe he will resurface and lead investigators to the remains of Bigfoot out there in Texas somewhere.
I'm not sure if it's either something natural or maybe even something, a bomb or something, but maybe something like martial law or something, and they have to delay it or push it back or something like that.
I hope you're wrong about both the economy and the elections being delayed.
You know, that would be horrible.
I can't imagine what would do it.
Perhaps, as he pointed out, some sort of terrorist activity that was at the level of a nuclear weapon or something of that sort.
As far as the economy falling apart, the housing bubble will continue to, I think, break during this coming year.
Oil prices are going up.
That's going to contribute to sort of an erosion, perhaps even a fairly quick erosion of the American economy.
All of that is true.
But imagining that it got to the point where something delayed the elections and we had martial law, that's kind of third world-ish, and I would hate to see that ever happen to America.
Okay, we were taking a Reiki class, and the Reiki master was showing the points of touching on when I was laying down so she could use me as a demonstration.
And I went into a dream state, and I had fish and kelp around me, and I had a sea turtle swim over my head just before I came out of this vision.
Well, that night we went to a, my wife and I went to a restaurant, never been to before, ever.
We sit down, it was a small restaurant, and lo and behold, all the walls around us, all painted like the ocean floor.
John, if you were an alien and you had, I don't know, millennia, thousands of years, millions of years of technological advance over our society, and you were viewing our world right now, looking at everything that's going on, what would you conclude?
unidentified
We don't know how to take care of the planet, first of all.
And we don't know what, you know, the UFOs, how did they really originate?
There might be other reasons we would be in conflict with China, Taiwan, for example, or something even more significant.
But I would think over the I don't want to call them little things because they're not.
If you have a child, you worry about the toys they get, but it's not worth a war, particularly one that would no doubt be nuclear in nature.
When you talk about two nations in military conflict, nations that both possess nuclear weapons, if you're not talking about Armageddon, you're talking about something close enough, so you want to think real hard before doing it.
Well, when Buchanan was robbed in 1996, it wasn't the electronic voting things, it was the precinct captains and the higher-ups who were pretty much bought off after the votes were already cast, and they sort of suppressed the votes then.
But now, yeah, I don't know how Iowa is, if there's electronic voting going on there.
But, I mean, there's already been cases that have gone to court in Ohio about software engineers writing bad code for the Iowa Diebolt Machine.
Americans don't really know what election fraud is.
Now, as you know, I spent, oh, I don't know, eight months in the Philippines.
And when they have election fraud there, well, I spoke to my wife.
She's from Mindanao, as you know.
I think you might know.
It's a southern island.
The southern part of Mindanao is where they have real difficulty with Al-Qaeda, that sort of thing.
But the elections there are something to behold.
And my wife recalls when she was younger being offered during every election, every candidate would be out offering X number of pesos for the vote.
And then there would be frequently somebody near the election place to try and ensure that you voted the way you promised you would according to how many pesos you took.
There would be people out there shopping for the best offer of X number of pesos.
And she said a lot of times, oh, you could just take the pesos and go ahead and vote for whoever you wanted to anyway.
But it was always fun to see who was making the best offer.
So that was almost kind of a way of life there.
So when we talk about election fraud, it's a matter of scale.
Can you imagine that sort of out shopping for who offers the most pesos?
What I'm wanting to call it, or label it as this, as a voice recognition translator.
It's about the size of a harmonica, but instead of going into it, you speak into it, and the sound that comes out the other side is whatever language you want to be heard in.
There'll be buttons on this device selecting whatever language, Spanish, French, whatever.
With the computer power and the processing getting to be what it is, I can imagine that soon there will be a little machine you can speak into, and out the other end will come exactly your meaning in another language.
My God, that would be helpful.
That would be so helpful, particularly in world travel.
And I think it's something that's certainly possible.
I believe this coming year, the two border guards, Campagnon and Chon, or Campagnon and Chief, whoever, I think they'll be pardoned or released somehow.
And what would that be due to, do you believe, John?
unidentified
I believe that it's I just said that it's going to, you know, new satellites coming down and because of all the I think it's, I have no idea, but I just see it.
And I guess the reason I laughed is because our society is so dependent now on satellites.
You may recall a few years ago, I can't recall which one it was offhand, but one of the satellites actually did, in fact, fail.
And all of the ATMs, or many or most of the ATMs, quit.
Not only that, but stores were unable to process people who were trying to buy growth.
I mean, it was a mess.
I don't know if any of you recall that, but if all of, or even most of our satellites were to, for a period of 90 days, fail, it would decimate our economy.
It would cause simply massive disruption of communication.
So last year we had a major communication breakdown prediction.
That one certainly would come true.
It would be a disaster.
And I guess it would even affect internet communications to some degree.
What a mess that would be.
So if it were due to sun flares or if it were due to any other reason, China, for example, beginning to shoot down our satellites, even though I know we have spares up there sitting and parked behind or near the current and primary satellites right now, what a mess that would be.
For this year, I'm predicting that either Dr. Michio Kaku or one of his ilk is going to come on the Coast to Coast show as a guest and explain scientifically why the Aztec calendar ends in the year 2012 and dispel any myths about it being Armageddon.
This is Coast to Coast A.M. Here I am, Steve and Two Rivers something or another, referring to the very open way they buy votes in the Philippines sometimes, says, buying votes, voter fraud.
That's capitalism, he says, as opposed to the system here in the U.S. where special interests wait until the candidates get elected to buy them.
I suppose that's a way of looking at it.
Just capitalism one way or the other.
In a moment, we'll continue with predictions for 2008.
All right, let's review, just before we jump to the lines again, let's review a few more predictions made for 2007.
And again, we're in this area where you didn't do very well.
Number 20, Israel nukes Iran.
Bonk.
Number 21, terrorism at a major sporting event, you know, like Black Sunday, bonk.
I'm going to, as I said I was, I'm going to cancel that one by taking that out.
Why?
Because what I want are psychic predictions.
In fact, maybe it's time to roll over this a little bit.
The rules for the predictions, all right?
Number one, each prediction will be given a number.
No pros.
In other words, no remote viewers, professionals, psychics, just all of you out there.
Only one prediction per customer.
No predictions of domestic assassination because they always get me in trouble.
And I do ask that you pull from your psychic center.
Now, these are predictions, not wishes, not hopes or political statements.
And last came under that category.
And I'll add that every year somebody predicts California is going to fall into the sea, the Pope will die, you know, all the normal stuff, war, nuclear arm again, that sort of thing.
And while one day it may occur, so far they have not.
So I would ask that you try and keep your predictions to the, you know, I'm not going to turn you down if you've got one of those, but if you admit to me that it's a political hope or a political statement when you call and not a prediction, I'm going to do what I just did and not admit it.
I do have a prediction, and that is on the world currency markets that the Euro will overtake the U.S. dollar as the number one currency that other currencies are pegged to.
And it does have to be kept in mind that Rome managed to rule the world, or what the world was at that time, for an awfully long time.
England really managed to, well, the sun never set for quite a number of years, eh?
And the U.S. has really not been at it that long.
So it is possible that if we make the wrong choices, and at the moment I can't say we're making the right ones, we're not going to be the world leaders that we have become accustomed to being.
And that's kind of sad when you think about it, but we have not been ruling the world for that long.
We really haven't.
If you look at other civilizations that have come and then gone or just sort of faded away, they were at it a great deal longer than we've been at it so far.
If what you're suggesting occurs, and it could, how far to our knees does it bring us?
I mean, is there massive unemployment?
Are we into another depression?
What do you see?
unidentified
To put it this way, my grandmother lived through the Great Depression, and she always said, you know what, I am glad that I am at the end of my life and that regardless of what's going to happen, that it is not going to really affect me.
However, she's like, I really do see my family happen, tough times coming up.
And, you know, she was in the middle of what would have been 12, ended up being 10 because, you know, look at our health care.
I think this is also just another sign of the times is, you know, beyond the dollar, just our health care, the way the healthcare is.
And diseases in the first-rate, you know, nation of the world are just, you know, killing millions and millions of people that shouldn't be happening.
So it's almost as if it's, you know, meant to happen for some reason, you know, the powers of that bee.
And I also, with the rules that you had, I don't know.
I don't want to say until I have your permission who I think will become president because of it.
Well, you can say if you want, but I can't record it as an official prediction.
unidentified
Okay, and I don't want to have it recorded as an official prediction.
You know, being a political moderate, I really do think that this is something that Hillary Clinton can point to and say, hey, you know, this is what I've been running for, you know, and this is finally what's happened.
And I really do think that a cause of a recession is, if she gets the nomination, what will give her the presidency?
Well, the one thing that I would say on Bill Clinton's behalf when he was president, there's no way to say that a Hillary Clinton presidency would be a repeat, in essence, of the Bill Clinton presidency.
But one thing you've got to say about Bill Clinton, and there's plenty of criticism you could level at him, but he left the economy alone.
He kind of did what doctors are supposed to do and did no harm.
And as a result, our economy kind of cooked when he was president.
I wonder if a Hillary presidency would be the same.
Perhaps not.
In other words, right now, I kind of agree with last caller in Prediction 21 that the U.S. economy has got a rough year ahead.
I don't know that it's going to be as rough as he predicts, and I pray not.
But it does look like we're getting set up for a rough year ahead.
And that means for the dollar, energy costs, all the rest of it, the housing bubble, all of this seems to be coming to, you know, I think I heard George mention the perfect economic storm.
It does kind of look that way.
A bit of a quickening, if you will.
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Good morning, Art.
How are you?
My name is Rick, and I'm calling from the wonderful little city of Rio Linda, California.
Yeah, my prediction is, and I really feel it's so strong, is between August 20th and October 15th of 2008, President George Bush is going to evoke Presidential Directive No.
51, basically working case control, and all its ramifications.
That there will be no election, that kind of thing?
unidentified
No election.
Because there's going to be an event.
There's going to be a whole scenario that's going to work out over the next few months, but it's not going to move fast enough, and it's going to be a staged event for him to evoke that president's directive and basically go under a dictator.
You know, every time we have a Republican president, I remember the same kind of prediction made when Nixon was president.
And virtually every Republican president, people come and make these predictions that he'll not leave.
He'll stage some kind of event and stay in control and we'll have martial law and all the rest of it.
unidentified
Well, Art, take this into consideration.
And in the past, it was just people who didn't like the individual, but you take the pulse of the world for those previous predictions, and it just didn't stack up.
But if you really look out your window and take a look and really listen to what's happening around this globe with Islamist fascism, this world's about ready to fly apart.
There's a lot of discontent and trouble, but I cannot imagine any president of the United States who has embraced the oath he took of throwing it all away.
Throwing away the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the whole thing, and trying to take over.
Americans wouldn't stand for that.
I don't think the American military would stand for that.
I can't imagine any of us standing for that.
Can you really, as I mentioned, every time we've got a Republican president, they always imagine, people always do imagine, there'll be some nasty October surprise, perhaps cooked up, that will cause the president to call the elections off and essentially become a dictator.
I just don't see that happening, either from the right or the left.
And I think America has matured to the point where that will not happen.
Call me naive, and perhaps I am, but I just don't see it.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello, Art.
11 years I've been trying to get in touch with you.
I once took a train from Vancouver, British Columbia, all the way to Niagara Falls, went over the Canadian Rockies.
What an incredible trip that was.
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I'm Art Bell.
Indeed, here I am happily converting number 28, which I had a question mark by regarding the owner of the Yankees turning over the team into a ding-ding-ding-ding-ding.
Eric in Gulf Breeze, Florida says, regarding the Yankees' prediction, former owner George Steinbrenner passed ownership of the New York Yankees to his two sons, Hank and Howell, in October of 2007.
That is a ding-ding-ding.
Happy to convert it, at least taking the first part of these predictions, to a slightly better place than we had had.
If you have a prediction, we stand ready to receive it and number it and hold it for a year in the Bell family vault.
And we'll get back to all of that in a moment.
You know, I just don't understand.
Every time I put a picture up, every time I'm on the air, you know, Proud Daddy puts a picture of Asia up, and people say they have a hard time finding it.
It's not hard at all.
Just go to the coast2coastam.com website, and right on the front page at the very top, you'll see a thing that says arts webcam, and that's what you click on.
Now, sometimes it may be that your cache, the cache in your computer is not updated, and so you won't see the little link.
And so if you don't know how to erase your cache, that would be the solution, then I guess you're out of luck.
And that may be what it is.
That may be why people have a difficult time finding it, that they're just seeing their own cache from some earlier time.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air, and I hope with a prediction for 08.
unidentified
Yes, sir.
I have a prediction for Air Force One.
Don't know what's going to happen, but for some reason it's going to disappear if it be physically or in some other realm.
My prediction is that truth regarding multiple public figures, including truth will be revealed regarding multiple public figures, including acts of treason and true identities from World War II through to the present, will be revealed.
And the Congress and the Senate will be stunned and stymied by the size of it.
Okay, and the public will react much in the same way initially, but with signs of unrest and demonstrations toward the end of the year, leading up to a long period of world peace and prosperity.
Now, two of these figures, two of them, it's not limited to two people.
I don't think that a dirty nuke would put our elections on tilt.
And what I've heard, now I could be wrong, but what I've heard from those really in the know, that a dirty nuke, terrible as it sounds, in reality wouldn't be as bad as it sounds.
That it would psychologically, certainly have a gigantic effect.
Probably on our economy, it would have a large effect.
People would panic.
But in reality, it wouldn't be as bad as it sounds.
So that's something you might keep in mind, because eventually there probably is going to be some sort of terrorist action that involves nuclear waste of some sort being scattered by conventional explosives.
And that's called a dirty nuke.
So keep that in mind.
I'm not saying it's something that anybody would want to happen, but it's just not as, I mean, the word nuclear just strikes terror into the hearts of just about everybody.
I'll put it down, but we'll all hope that does not occur.
I'm sure many of you have seen some of the specials, some of the TV shows that have been done on what would occur if Yellowstone really let go, and most of us here in the West would be gone.
I'll put that transit to South America is simply impossible for whatever reason.
So, yes, particularly if it's a repetitive dream, as he just suggested, again and again and again, you said every afternoon and evening, if you're having the same dream, it is certainly worth knowing about.
As you know, there is a dream registry.
And I think that's a very good idea, a place where you can actually go and register your dreams on the internet if you would like to do so.
Well, I think you and the President share that thought, but the best intelligence, which hasn't been all that good really, have suggested that the Iranian nuclear program was stopped, and you wouldn't think the President would want to accept that particular point of view.
You know, and if they really drop down hard, I mean, and they'll do it right before tax season so that the dollar value itself would, you know, people are going to have $1,000 taxes and no money to pay it.
I mean, what's occurring right now with the dollar, with our economy, with this housing mess, I think sales of new homes, what was it, down 9%, something like that, just announced.
All of this is pretty scary stuff, but could the U.S. economy really collapse that far?
Or is the U.S. economy basically sound enough that, well, yeah, we could have a recession, but it's not all going to go, is it?
Good morning from the high desert.
All right, let's look at a few more made last year.
We're in a very bad patch.
Number 32 was an economic collapse.
Well, in part, that one has already begun, hasn't it?
I'll give it a tentative ding.
Number 33, North Korea attacks Russia and the U.S. bonk.
Number 34, a volcano goes off in the Caribbean.
Well, there was something.
We'll give that, that was that caller, 34.
We'll give it a half, a little ding and a little bonk.
Or a little ding and a big bonk.
Number 35, the U.S. gets Panama Canal back, bonk.
Too bad, huh?
We could use it.
Number 36, the Bells have a boy baby.
Caesarean section.
They got the Cesarean section thing right, but we knew that.
And of course, Asia's very much a girl.
Number 37, a blown light bulb.
Now, just on general principles, I'm going to give that a ding-ding.
There are plenty of blown light bulbs, so I don't know what that really meant.
Number 38, U.S. coins worth more than their face value.
I just heard recently that indeed that has become the case.
So ding ding.
Number 39, U.S. Treasury does away with some coins and or currency.
Bonk.
40, reptilian surface.
Bonk.
Number 41, 50 million illegal aliens in America.
I don't think the number is 50 million, is it?
It's more like I had heard 20 million, is that correct?
So I'll give that a bonk.
Number 42, the Ramsey case solved, bonk.
Number 43, mosquitoes begin to appear after record rainfall virtually everywhere, I guess, bonk.
Number 44, government releases report on intelligent life on other planets, bonk.
45, west coast volcanoes are up, bonk.
46, Chargers win Super Bowl, sadly a bonk.
Number 47, the war on terror continues, ding ding.
Number 48, Al-Qaeda hits some sort of cruise ship like Carnival Lines, bonk.
Number 49, an earthquake in L.A. March 7th of 2007, bonk.
And then finally, right now, 50.
See, it's been a bad year.
U.S. announces a trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.
Well, I've got a question mark by that.
I think that might be a ding, and I'll leave that up to those of you to let me know on FastBlast.
U.S. announces a trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.
We'll leave it there for the moment.
I'm not sure about that one.
All right.
In a moment, we will continue with your predictions.
Don't budge.
All right.
Looking for your very best predictions for the year ahead, 2008.
Now, remember, if you don't get through tonight, don't worry.
We're going to do tomorrow night as well.
We always devote a couple of days to this every year.
And every year, I hope that the audience will take a moment, not call in just to express some sort of political wish, but actually reach deep into your psychic center and come up with something that really is going to occur in the coming year.
We're going to have a bad earthquake in California come June, about June 21st.
For some unknown reason, every time, I was born and raised in California, but for some unknown reason, every time we have a bad earthquake, it's always in the summer months.
Never in the winter months, always in the summer months for some weird reason.
Is it just something that's just a feeling because I know a lot of times it seems like wherever the NBA All-Star game has gone, there's been trouble and stuff.
As a matter of fact, there's been talk about putting it into a foreign country in the next few years.
I don't think there's going to be any deaths, but it's going to be all over the place, and that'll be the big headline during that time in February.
My prediction is that people of other faiths will start looking to the Pope as a spiritual leader, and no, I don't think he's going to die.
That's not necessarily a good thing.
And other than that, for some reason, I foresee Madonna, the singer, as having something to do with it.
Like being the spokesperson or leading the craze.
So in other words, when people begin turning to the Catholic Church, not necessarily to the church, but just looking to the Pope as somewhat of a savior.
Some comet in the sky, some crash into Earth, that kind of thing?
unidentified
I don't know, but I think it'll be something as magical as stars lining up or, yeah, I would say let's go with the meteorite or a large object heading towards the Earth that could endanger all the human species unless we put all of our heads together and all the sophisticated countries are able to get up there and
Okay, well, it's not that I disagree with you, Joe, but I'm not going to record that as a specific prediction, even though I may agree.
We'll be right back.
It really is my pleasure to be here.
I guess this stuff really is in my blood.
Good morning.
We're doing predictions, an annual event on this program.
For 2008, reviewing those for 2007.
We'll get to some of those at the bottom of the hour.
But again, I'd like you to recall you can only make one prediction, and it really does have to be a prediction, recalling last call we had, which I really couldn't record as a prediction.
Sort of a, what was that?
I guess a general comment on the state of mankind, but not a prediction.
So it's got to be a prediction for something in the year ahead.
And it needs to come, if possible, from your psychic center, not your political center.
Something you'd like to see happen, you wish would happen, or you feel if you suggest on the radio, it might happen, but something from your psychic center.
All right.
In a moment, we'll get back to your predictions.
Well, all right.
Back to all of you and your predictions for the year coming very quickly now.
West of the Rockies, good morning.
You're on the air.
Hello.
Going once, going twice, gone like the wind.
First time caller align, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Mark Bell, it's a pleasure to talk to you.
My name is Ben.
Right now I'm driving up in northern Indiana.
Hi, Ben.
The prediction I have is actually a positive one, and I want you to mark this one down, although I do have a warning, and this is going to regard the weather.
Okay.
The prediction, actually, is that I feel that California is going to have one of the lowest fire damage years this millennium, I'd say.
And I think probably San Diego County and Imperial County are going to see quite a measure of rainfall, maybe even record.
Now, here's the problem.
Places like Texas for the last few years have been flooded.
They're going to change into a drought.
The drought in the southeast could continue.
And then the warning I have is probably for people of Kansas, Nebraska, northern Oklahoma, Missouri, and Iowa, the tornadoes this spring are going to be monstrous.
And for some reason in my head, I just keep thinking Wichita needs to really watch out.
If we had a confrontation with Taiwan, if they actually shot down one of our satellites or several of our satellites, there'd be a big, big, big, big problem.
China has proven by shooting down one of their own satellites that they clearly have the technological capability to do it.
And if they would level that capability at one of our satellites, I think that there would be a disagreement that would probably be greater than one generated by an attempt to retake Taiwan or take Taiwan.
That would be a real problem.
As I mentioned earlier, we really, really, really depend on our satellites more than you know.
Yes, I'm calling, and my prediction is that Congress will repudiate some of the Constitutional Bill of Rights, one specifically by enacting a national Sunday law.
Well, like the what was what was the in a lot of the early states, the New England states, we used to have a lot of Sunday laws, and you're saying that kind of thing will come back and be national as an act of Congress.
What do you think, just for grins, let's pursue this a little bit.
What kind of thing would be big enough to precipitate such an event from the president?
unidentified
Well, maybe another 9-11 event or just with the book of Revelations and all the stuff that's going on, you already had a caller who said that Mount Edna was going to blow.
I'm really sorry to hear that sort of thing and that the American people seem to believe that is going to happen.
I guess, naively, perhaps, I have more faith in America and in George Bush and in just about every other president that I just don't believe that'll occur.
These men stand there and put their hands on Bibles and take their oath of office, and that really doesn't include orchestrating terrible events, things that will occur to the American people to grab and hold power, declare martial law, and virtually do away with the precious freedoms that they promised to protect.
Unfortunately, my prediction is I think this might be your last New Year's Eve prediction show because of the collapse of the United States economy followed by the invasion of the United States by Russia and China.
Well, the problem is that it's going to cause such, you know, people aren't aware of the generational effect that these wars have had with the people of the Middle East.
I mean, we get tidbits of it through the news, but I don't think anybody really is paying attention in North America the way they should.
Hence, the dire straits.
I guess so my prediction is that, yeah, the Middle East peace talks, for all intents and purposes, will be successful by the end of 2008.
The problem is that I think it's going to cause so much internal upheaval that we're going to see probably the largest international military force moving forward to the Middle East to try and calm the waters and keep anything else from happening.
That could even lead us to a nuclear exchange around the world.
I predict that the California state budget will run out of money to give out welfare checks.
This is because of the subprime mortgage loans for closing the home building industry, and increasing hordes of illegal aliens are breaking the welfare budget.
Once again, coming through loud and clear is your concern about the economy.
Looking again at a few of the predictions made last year, not so good.
51, a major serial killer found.
I believe that would be a bonk.
Now, I can be corrected at any moment if I'm wrong.
52, our troops hit by a surprise attack with a sunburst missile.
That'd be a bonk.
53, snow and flooding.
Well, we've had plenty of snow, plenty of flooding.
I'll give that a ding.
Ding, ding, ding.
54, Hillary makes Bill vice president.
I put a question mark by that.
We're going to have to wait and see, right?
We'll leave it at that.
55, India administers Iraq in agreement, bonk.
56, E. coli terrorist attack, bonk.
57, advance in teleportation would be a bonk.
I think we had one in the previous year.
58, music unites nations.
Oh, don't we all wish?
Bonk.
59, art helps kill abortion.
Now, I don't know if they meant me or art in general.
Either way, it's a bonk.
And number 60, more attempts at gun control.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Well, there certainly have been, haven't there?
Especially since Virginia Tech.
Lots of attempts at gun control, and that will continue, but that's a big ding.
That in mind, we'll be back with more of your predictions for next year in a moment.
Well, right, I've never done this before.
Nobody's made it yet.
So I'm going to make a prediction.
My prediction will be number 51 and probably as bonk as anybody else's.
I'm going to predict that Al Gore will jump in the race at the very last moment.
I'm not going to predict where that will take him, but I am going to predict that he's going to decide to jump in the race at the last moment, hope to be drafted, and may indeed happen.
But I'm, you know, I've waited all night for somebody to mention the name Al Gore.
Nobody has, so I'm mentioning it.
And I just have this feeling that after his award, he's just sort of laying back, and it'd be a way to certainly would shake things up at the last moment, wouldn't it?
And now, I want to make sure that this is really a prediction and not a hope.
unidentified
Well, it's kind of a hope, but it's actually a prediction because it's around the 100th anniversary of 100-year anniversary of them playing or winning the World Series.
My prediction for 2008 is that there is going to be a real serious effort by the United States and Canada to put forth a currency for all of the Americas.
And it's not a dream that I had or anything like that.
I do follow politics.
I don't have a PhD or any political science degree or anything.
But right after the, I'll make this quick, right after the Conservative government was elected in Canada almost two years ago, they did say something.
I heard it one day, it was mentioned once, that maybe we should get rid of the monarchy, meaning taking Queen Elizabeth II off of the Canadian currency.
And that is, and when that was said, I said, you know, when the Canadian dollar is at par with the USA dollar, that's going to be the first step to going towards a currency for all of the Americas.
I don't think we're anywhere near ready for all of the Americas.
You know, we may be pretty close to a common currency with Canada, but nowhere near Mexico and on south.
unidentified
No, but this is going to be the first step towards it because we have to get more countries in South America on board with this thing.
I know that a trade agreement there with Peru is one step towards it.
And I believe that it is very, very important for the United States and Canada, just as important for Canada, that we do get more countries in Central and South America on board on this, because if we could have all of the Americas under one trade zone and one currency, we would have approximately 800 million consumers.
And that is the only way I believe that we are going to successfully compete against India, China, and the European Union.
And so it's very important.
So my prediction is that for 2008 is that the United States and Canada is going to be pushing to be on the same currency.
I thought the opposite was occurring, and the moon was actually...
unidentified
And all of that, I think I mentioned it before, that the two trains passing each other and they experiment with the radiation, and they took the thing off.
You know, it's like energy between our star and the star is creating gravitational fields.
And the very same to you, despite all the negativity in the air.
unidentified
Well, yes, I understand.
And maybe there can be a little bit more positive light here.
You've almost touched on it, and I've been feeling for a while that I think that once Castro dies, and I think it's going to be this year, I think that some kind of an agreement is going to be made between the United States and Cuba so that we can finally put this Cuban problem out of the way.
I imagine our people being able to go over there and stay in hotels that the United Kingdom's people have built there and visit the island and people coming back and forth.
I think more going there as perhaps a vacation destination site, perhaps through a cruise line.