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Dec. 30, 2007 - Art Bell

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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - 2008 Predictions Night 1

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	From the high desert in 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 AM.
	I'm Art 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, Coast2CoastAM.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 7 months old.
	Now she rolls over, she is beginning to think about crawling, and all that kind of thing.
	So, right on course, On GlidePath, 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've 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 call in on the lines, and by that I mean No pros, no remote viewers, no, you know, 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, given 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 ten big stories.
	Ten 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 prices.
	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.
	Rockies, 1-800-618-8255.
	East of the Rockies, 1-800-825-5033.
	First time callers, you're welcome at area code 818-523-4233.
	Area code 818-501-40, make that 4109.
	I'm Noel Ross Mitchell, international line 800-893-0903.
	Area code 818-501-40... make that 4109. I'm Noel 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.
	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.
	All right, who's going to be number one?
	It's going to be West of the Rockies.
	You're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Well, good morning, Art.
	How are you?
	Just spiffy, sir.
	Where are you?
	Well, I'm in Las Vegas.
	Las Vegas, just over the hill.
	Just over the hill from you.
	All right, you are going to get the prestigious number one spot.
	All right.
	Okay, well, you know, Last summer was hot here in the Valley, as you know.
	Oh my God, it was hot.
	Well, there was a week there that was hard to believe.
	Yes.
	And I was tempted to go with the prediction of really hot temperatures, but I just don't want to bring that down on us.
	So instead, with all the global warming and the El Ninos, hurricanes get a lot of attention, but I'm feeling tornadoes in the Midwest this spring.
	Big breakouts of tornadoes, something that will get the weather channel hopping.
	I bet you're right, too.
	With global warming, the tornado seasons are going to get scarier and scarier.
	There's no question about it.
	Have you ever been in one?
	I have, because I'm originally from Kansas.
	Lawrence, Kansas.
	So we know the tornado sirens and we know what that looks like.
	I've been out here now for a decade.
	So now I'm seasoned by the warm weather out here.
	Yeah, I guess this would be one place that doesn't have too much of anything except hot weather during the summer.
	I know, and the winds.
	Oh my God, the winds.
	It has, for those who don't know, it was 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, Caller?
	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.
	Except that it's 30 or 40 miles an hour of wind, too.
	I know.
	I know, it's terrible.
	Alright, so tornadoes in the Midwest.
	Got it.
	Get to your basements.
	Alright, so that's a perfectly reasonable, perfectly reasonable A 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, you know, 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.
	East of the Rockies, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello, Art Bell.
	Howdy.
	Where are you, sir?
	This is Bob calling from Massachusetts, listening on WRKO Radio.
	Welcome.
	Thank you very much.
	It's an honor to talk to you.
	Honor to have you, and you will be number two.
	Great.
	I have a prediction concerning the presidential election.
	Okay.
	I'm going to say that Mitt Romney and Rudolph Giuliani will be in office, and I'm not sure who will be president or who will be vice president.
	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.
	Okay.
	You really see that as a strong possibility, sir, that anybody on the right is going to get elected?
	Any Republican at all is going to get elected?
	I think so.
	Yes.
	It seems, in some ways, a remote possibility.
	Now, it's kind of like the country's had enough of the Republicans and they're ready to move on.
	Okay.
	That's an opinion, not a prediction.
	Right.
	Anyway, I've got Mitt Romney and Giuliani.
	Great.
	Alright, thank you very, very much for the call.
	May I ask when the results will be in?
	Well, in November, sir.
	I mean, as far as your take on things, on your tally.
	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 we'll say, gee, not much of a psychic mind there.
	I'm looking forward to it.
	I'll be listening in the interim.
	Yeah, take care.
	All right, there you have it.
	So that's how it works.
	You make the prediction.
	I'll give it a number.
	Next year, we will review it for accuracy.
	Now, to give you a little idea, let me go through a few of these.
	I'll hold them until the bottom of the hour.
	Coming out of the bottom of the hour, we'll begin reviewing some of the... Boy, you did not do well in the beginning.
	Not well at all.
	Let's go to Wild Card Line 3.
	You are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hey Art, this is Rick.
	I'm calling from Franklin, Tennessee, outside of Nashville, listening to 1510 WLAC.
	Hey Rick.
	Hey, how are you?
	Just spiffy.
	My prediction is that, as many in the Coast to Coast audience know, there's an asteroid known as 2007 WD-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.
	Well, the 1 in 25, I thought it was 1 in 75.
	Now, have they upped that?
	Yes, they've upgraded as of last week.
	Okay.
	And my prediction is that it will hit Mars, and it will reveal a pre-civilization that people like Richard Hoagland have always known was there.
	Okay, Reveal Civilization, what do you expect to see?
	Some parts of a broken building, that sort of thing?
	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.
	I remember that particular photograph really did get my attention.
	So yeah, maybe something would kick up a bunch of Mars dust, and there it would be.
	It sure is interesting that it's even one in a thousand, let alone one in 75.
	Well, listen, that's Mars, right?
	And I'm told the explosion would be about like Tunguska, right?
	Yeah, that's right.
	So, it would kick up dust, but it wouldn't be a calamitous event on Mars.
	I mean, geographically, it wouldn't affect that much of Mars.
	You know, when I was a little kid, my parents took me to the Meteor Crater out in Arizona, and that's something I will never forget.
	So, maybe I'll make a crater about that size.
	Oh, maybe.
	All right.
	Well, that's a good prediction.
	I appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	Thank you so much.
	Bye.
	All right.
	So, WD-5, so-called, will smack Mars and, in the process, reveal, well, something that shows there were others.
	Would that be something?
	First time caller line, you are on the air.
	Hi.
	Hey R, so good to hear your voice again.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, my prediction.
	In 2008, after Hillary gets the nomination, she's going to be called to a deposition in a civil suit.
	The depositions in that suit are going to reveal her involvement in the greatest campaign finance fraud ever and a scandal that eclipses Watergate.
	Really?
	So civil suit against Hillary?
	It's not against Hillary, it's against Bill, but she will be called to testify.
	Against Bill?
	It's coming to Los Angeles Superior Court.
	I've actually done a documentary film on it.
	Okay.
	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.
	Alright, so campaign finance, what, fraud?
	Okay.
	All right.
	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.
	I have a prediction that, is this Chris from New York City?
	Yes, Chris.
	Okay, I predict that in a major reverse, around May of 2008, oil prices will be below $50.
	How is this going to happen?
	Well, I think that The markets are going to finally realize that a lot of the price right now is based on fear, and fear only, and China's growth and India's growth, although... Well, that's what I would have said, China and India's growth.
	I mean, after all, oil is bought on a spot market, some of it driven by fear, I'll give you that.
	But usually it settles back down to reality.
	So you're saying reality is way down around 50 bucks a barrel?
	And the Chinese-Indian growth will still be considered a major factor, but that has been a feeding frenzy that has been overbought.
	And I truly believe that there'll be perhaps a couple of hints of some more major fines as well.
	I'm interested.
	Has the price of oil changed the way you live your life yet?
	In New York, no, not really.
	No.
	In Manhattan, everything's so expensive that it hasn't changed.
	It hasn't changed most of the people I know around here either.
	Has the price of a cab gone up?
	They have, but it's... Alright, listen, I've got to hold it right there.
	I really, really appreciate the call, but I've got to go.
	We're at a break point.
	Predictions for 2008.
	This is Coast to Coast AM.
	Indeed, here I am.
	Let's look very quickly at some of the predictions made for 2007.
	You'll see the first bunch are pretty pathetic, really.
	Number one.
	NASA loses somebody.
	Bonk.
	Certainly not in space travel, and that's what they meant.
	Number two, Philippine earthquakes.
	Well, at that time, I was taking these predictions.
	Was I in the Phil... Yes, I was in the Philippines, and I think they... You're right.
	Ding, ding, ding.
	There certainly were Philippine earthquakes.
	Number three, Saddam's execution faked.
	There are still people saying that, but it's a bonk.
	Number four, Iraq splits into three parts, and tentatively giving that certainly a bonk, but that may eventually occur.
	Number five, UFO sightings will triple.
	Well, I see nothing that would indicate that's occurred.
	Bonk.
	Number six, Republicans gain Senate control.
	Considering that the Senate majority leaders here in my state, that's a big bonk.
	Number seven, Israel attacks Iran.
	Israel attacks Iran.
	Well, bonk.
	Number eight, a treaty.
	We enter into a treaty with China.
	Now, we have trade treaties, but no new big one that I know of.
	Bonk.
	Number nine, major communications breakdown.
	Bonk, as far as I know.
	Now, listen folks, if I'm wrong on any of these, feel free to fast blast me and let me know that I'm full of it.
	Number 10, Israel will offer Iraq assistance.
	Bonk.
	Number 11, government gets Osama.
	Bonk.
	Number 12, big deal in our skies.
	Well, tentative bonk.
	A big deal would be, you know, I don't know, like a Phoenix Light, something like that.
	So it's a bonk.
	Number 13, Killer whale killed by trainer.
	Now I have got a question mark by this because I recall something in the news about a killer whale.
	I can't recall what it was, so...
	I'll leave a question mark there, and you can fill me in.
	I think it's a tentative bonk, but there might have been something.
	Number 14.
	Artbell.com, my website, becomes active.
	I can tell you that's a bonk.
	Number 15.
	Syria, Iran, Russia attack Israel.
	Bonk.
	Number 16.
	Base on moon revealed.
	Bonk.
	Number 17, increase in animal attacks on humans.
	I'll give that a ding, ding, ding, ding.
	Number 18, economy falters.
	Dollar weakens further.
	A big ding, ding, ding, ding.
	And number 19, in August, in the Pacific, a volcano erupts, creating a new island.
	Well, hmm.
	That's an ongoing process in Hawaii.
	I'm going to give it a tentative ding.
	I'm not sure it's a new island.
	Well, there's a new part of it.
	A tentative ding for that.
	Ding, ding, ding, ding.
	And I'll stop right there.
	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.
	This is 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 Shantex 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 Chantex 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 Shantex 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 Shantex because it'll just, it'll cause you to just dream like crazy.
	So, again, it's a thing, though, that you cannot just go and buy.
	You've got to get a doctor's prescript for Shantex.
	All right, let's go wildcard line one and say you're on the air.
	Hi, Art.
	This is Yvonne from New York.
	Hello, Yvonne.
	I reached into my psychic center and... Thanks.
	I predict that in a major metropolitan area, possibly New York, there will be at least one helicopter crash into a building.
	It won't be a residential building.
	It'll either be a medical facility or business.
	I see tinted windows, very large.
	Alright, this is quite a specific prediction, and I would like to ask how it comes to you.
	I'm psychic.
	I'm not a professional psychic, but I'm very psychic.
	I get my visions a lot like Evelyn Pat Glinney does.
	I don't really have control over it.
	Boy, she's the one who hits it again and again.
	You know, even her latest prediction.
	You remember her latest prediction, hun, of a new cold, a new virus of some kind?
	I don't remember that one.
	I remember she was right on with the fires, though.
	Yes, she was.
	And after the fires, she came on, took credit, I gave her credit, and then she predicted a new virus.
	And it looks like we've got one, a cold, that preys on young people, young, healthy people.
	Kind of scary.
	Very.
	Can I mention something?
	You may.
	A coast-to-coast chat room I'm on right now?
	Okay.
	Nighthawk Zone, a.k.a.
	Angel Rider.
	Sure.
	Hi, guys.
	We love you, Art.
	We miss you.
	Well, it's very kind.
	Thank you very much.
	We love you so much, Art.
	Take care.
	Take care.
	It's good to be here.
	And I know, you know, people ask me all the time, do I miss it?
	Yeah, of course I miss it.
	Of course I do.
	But I must say, raising now a seven-month-old has been incredible.
	Absolutely incredible.
	My little girl, our little girl.
	Go look at the photograph.
	Go take a good look at the photograph.
	I've had a series, you know, ever since she's been born, when I've had the chance, like a proud papa, I've put up photographs.
	But she's really a darling.
	I mean, this little girl.
	She could be, you know, on the front of Parents Magazine.
	She could be, she's just beautiful.
	That's all there is to it.
	She's beautiful and she smiles all the time.
	Now she laughs.
	Big hearty laugh.
	You know, about six months she began converting that smile into a laugh.
	She is really just a darling.
	So, you know, it's a good way to spend your time.
	West of the Rockies, you are on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Howdy.
	Where are you?
	California.
	Welcome to the program.
	What is your first name?
	Max.
	Max?
	Okay, Max.
	Your prediction is going to be number 7.
	What do you think is coming next year?
	I believe that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will trade below 11,000.
	$11,000.
	Oh, Dow falls below $11,000 and you think it will remain there all the year or what?
	That I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it will trade below $11,000.
	Okay.
	You don't want to predict whether it'll recover or give the market people a little bit of hope for the end of the year, or what?
	Well, I'm sure it'll ultimately all work out, but it'll get a little bit scary.
	A little scary, huh?
	Yes.
	All right.
	Thank you very, very much.
	That is prediction number seven, and these are all, so far, quite good Exactly what I had in mind.
	Predictions.
	And again, you know, California falling into the ocean is okay, and I suppose the Pope dying, we get that every year, and other, you know, aliens taking over the world.
	All of these things are okay, but they're not really likely.
	And the ones we're getting so far, I think, have a fairly decent chance of coming true.
	And again, try and go down into your psychic center and really see or feel however it is you.
	I am interested, by the way, in how people get or come up with their predictions.
	Wildcard Line 3, you are on the air.
	Hello!
	Hi, Art.
	This is Lewis in Colorado.
	Hey, Lewis.
	I have a prediction for you.
	Okay.
	I predict that in 2008, you're going to come to Colorado specifically to see me.
	Really?
	Yes.
	You must have some idea why I would do that?
	Yes, I do.
	It has everything to do with the fact that you will not be smoking in 2008.
	Well, I hope you're right.
	I know I'm right.
	I think it's a very good chance of it.
	I mean, you know, I'm three weeks into not so much as any nicotine whatsoever, and I'm on the uphill side of it.
	In other words, it's getting easier.
	Well, I know it's going to work because I predicted it.
	Okay, but what does my not smoking an eight have to do with coming to see you in Colorado?
	I'm going to get you and Aaron and Asia introduced to a family exercise program.
	Something that's fun.
	All right, all right.
	I'll leave it at that.
	Thank you very much.
	Your prediction is number eight.
	Okay.
	And again, I appreciate your making it.
	We'll see what happens.
	I am indeed doing some exercise.
	Well, this is recumbent bicycles.
	Are we coming bicycles, huh?
	You're coming to Colorado, and I'm going to... Yeah, but you've got real big mountains in Colorado.
	Oh, yes, but we've got the most beautiful bicycle trails that are paved.
	Yeah, but I don't want to go uphill.
	Oh, you don't have to.
	All right, listen.
	Thank you very, very much for the call.
	We'll see.
	Big, big mountains in Colorado.
	I am beginning to do some exercise.
	We're thinking of perhaps going on a cruise, maybe to Europe, somewhere down the line.
	So I'm beginning to exercise with that in mind.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello, Art Bell?
	Yes, indeed.
	Hi, this is Bill Salinas.
	Salinas, California, yes.
	Okay, it's an honor to speak to you finally, you know, long time listener.
	Been listening since 2000.
	Great to have you.
	Okay, my prediction for 2008, I believe that former guest of yours, Buggs, I believe he will resurface and lead investigators to the remains of Bigfoot out there in Texas somewhere.
	Boy, I wish he would do that.
	And I believe you'll be in on that too, sir.
	Well, I would be.
	I'd be willing to certainly go there.
	I told him that.
	I wonder if the bodies are still viable, you know, if we could still find out.
	True, I mean, it was, what, 30 years ago, somewhere in the 70s?
	Yes.
	And, you know, it would be damp ground.
	I believe you said it was near a stream somewhere, if you recall.
	Right, right.
	So, I'm not sure they'd still be viable, but they might be.
	I mean, that's, you know, years ago he was ready to, you know, go for it, and then all of a sudden he, you know, disappeared.
	It sure was.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Take care.
	So, Bugs comes out of hiding.
	Is that correct?
	And leads us to Bigfoot.
	It was interesting, I thought, when we had the Bigfoot expert on.
	Remember that?
	And luckily, Bugs decided to come out of hiding and got on the air.
	And I thought our guest almost passed out.
	I mean, he was sort of here suggesting that, yes, Bigfoot is real.
	And Bigfoot needs to be protected.
	And as he listened to Bug's story, I could almost see his face turning green.
	It really got to him.
	It got to the point where he almost couldn't say anything.
	Wildcard Line 4, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi Art, this is Rick out here in Arkansas.
	It's a long-time listener.
	What part of Arkansas, Rick?
	I'm in the western part along the river in the I-40.
	Okay.
	I started listening to you in 01 and on the other radio in 03, and I don't know if you're aware, I wanted to ask you, are you aware of the movie I Know You Like Abba?
	Yes, I am aware of the movie.
	I've seen it.
	Okay, I was just wondering, I've seen it a month or two ago on a documentary channel, and it was pretty good.
	Oh, there's no way I'd miss something like that.
	Yeah, well, I thought you would, but anyway, congrats on Stop Smoking, and I'm glad everything's going well for you.
	I see in 2008 that it starts kind of falling apart and sometime in... Wait, I'm sorry, what is going to fall apart?
	Pretty much the U.S.
	itself.
	The economy, I think, and everything's going to start going down.
	But my big thing is I see something happening by before the election.
	Something's going to happen and they're going to either cancel it or delay it or something is going to happen and they won't have the election.
	Um, that would be like some third world country.
	In America we don't delay elections, so if that happened it would really be... Yeah, I think something big.
	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 don't see it really coming out too well.
	Wow.
	Alright, 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.
	First time caller line, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hey, this is Darren in Gig Harbor.
	Hi, Darren.
	Hey, I got a prediction.
	It's kind of three parts.
	I had a dream the other night, and I had a dream that there would be three earthquakes in Hawaii.
	It's either going to be on Maui or Oahu.
	I think Maui.
	Okay, this constitutes one, and you're only allowed one.
	Yes.
	It was an 8.6 followed by a 7.2 followed by a 6.3.
	Okay.
	And it would be on, my dream was, because those two islands look the same, it was like I was looking at a newspaper in my dream.
	Right.
	And those two islands have similar shapes.
	From what I remember in my dream, I think it would more likely be Maui.
	Give me the magnitudes again please.
	8.6.
	Oh my god.
	Followed by a 7.2.
	You know, they could call these aftershocks, I guess.
	The last one would be a 6.3.
	Yeah, an 8.6 would likely produce a tsunami that would roll toward the U.S.
	West Coast, yes?
	Yes.
	Well, I didn't see that.
	All I saw was a newspaper image in my dream looking at the islands with, you know, the little graph that they show the epicenters.
	Do you think these are real earthquakes or do you think they're volcanic?
	I don't know.
	All I know is that I had the dream.
	I woke up and I told my wife so that I had somebody that, you know, witnessed it.
	I've had other things that have come true.
	So when I do have things like that that are very real, I wake up and make a point of telling somebody.
	Oh, you have to.
	Otherwise, you know, you forget it.
	Yes, and I have had something validated before, so another time I could tell you about it, but you don't have time for all that tonight.
	Well, if you've got something else right, I'll listen to that.
	That's not a problem.
	Well, you know what Reiki is, right?
	Sure.
	Okay, we were taking a Reiki class and the Reiki master was showing the points of, you know, 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, my wife and I went to a restaurant, never been to before, ever.
	We sit down at a small restaurant and Lo and behold, all the walls around us all painted like the ocean floor.
	Wow.
	Fish, kelp, everything.
	All of that came true?
	Yes.
	Above our table, and only our table, and the entire restaurant was a sea turtle painted on the ceiling.
	All right, my friend.
	And I had told everybody in that class about it before, when I came out of the Dream State, so I had validation from other people.
	Got it.
	All right, listen, gotta run.
	We're at the top of the hour.
	This is Coast to Coast AM.
	I'm Art Bell.
	We are doing predictions for the year ahead, 2008.
	We are reviewing those you made last year for 2007.
	The first half of those being sort of, well, not so good.
	Not so many hits.
	But the second half I would rate a little bit above average, so I guess all in all it's a little better than a passing grade.
	We'll review some of the others in a while here.
	And we will continue to take them in a moment.
	In terms of quitting smoking, one of the difficult parts of it is what are called triggers.
	Every smoker knows that when you get on the phone, you want a cigarette.
	At least I did.
	And I was on the phone a lot.
	Obviously.
	When you have a meal, you know, right after lunch or dinner, you really want a cigarette.
	But the biggest trigger of all, for me, was getting on the air.
	And so far, so good.
	You see, the last time I was on, there have been several weeks, you know, it's been an interim of several weeks, which I wanted to have, give myself a chance really to get going before I had to be on the air again.
	But I would say being on the air was the biggest trigger of all for me to smoke.
	Now, a lot of broadcasters know that smoking and broadcasting have always gone together.
	Always.
	And so it's a gigantic trigger and somehow I'm doing just fine and I hope it stays that way.
	All right, back to predictions for the coming year in a moment.
	All right, this is the real McCoy.
	No professionals, no psychics, no professionals of any sort.
	Only all of you making predictions for the coming year.
	Now, I will not take predictions made by Fastblast, though I enjoy hearing from you on Fastblast, nor predictions made by email or any other way.
	Only ones made here on the air, so we all hear them, we all hear them numbered, and there's no hanky-panky at all possible.
	By the way, if you would like to email me, you're welcome to do so.
	I am Artbell, A-R-T-B-E-L-L at AOL.com or Artbell at MindSpring.com.
	That's A-R-T-B-E-L-L, lowercase, at MindSpring, M-I-N-D-S-P-R-I-N-G.com.
	Back to the phone lines, wildcard line one, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Hello, how are you doing?
	Just fine, sir.
	Where are you and what is your first name?
	Okay, this is John from Long Island, New York.
	Yes, sir.
	And that was on last year about Prediction Night.
	Oh.
	I predicted that, um... What number?
	Excuse me?
	Uh, what number was your prediction last year?
	I'm not sure of the number, John, from Long Island.
	I talked about the UFOs, and I only got a double, but actually triple.
	Uh, that's right.
	UFOs will triple.
	That was prediction number five, John.
	Yeah, I called you in February, just to, you said I already, you know, it actually was a ding already.
	Well, no.
	No, you can't say that for the year UFO sightings tripled.
	Well, the sightings in the newspapers in the foreign countries, it seems to have gone up at least two or threefold.
	Yeah, you know, I remember your call and I remember dinging it in February, but if you take the year as a whole, after that it kind of calmed down, right?
	It depends.
	There's a lot of reports we won't even know that happened.
	There could be a lot of things really going on that wasn't reported.
	So, you know, you can't get everything.
	But I'm going to go out on a limb and I'm going to say not double or triple for 2008.
	I'm going to say at least quadruple.
	I think it's going to be a lot more than 2007.
	Really?
	I think there's going to be some really big hits coming up here soon.
	Might I ask why?
	As I can see, the world is getting worse and worse.
	The wars are getting... A lot of... Just more bad karma.
	A lot of bad things are going on.
	And we're being visited, being viewed.
	It's just seeing what's going... No, they're checking us out, basically, to see what's going on.
	Progress or whatever.
	Aggression, whatever's going on.
	So I just believe just the world's going to pot.
	The worse it gets, there's going to be more sightings.
	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?
	Well, 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?
	Did they start civilization on this, you know, on Earth?
	We don't know.
	Maybe they're checking progress?
	We don't know.
	Certain things you just can't answer.
	We don't know what's really going on.
	But like, to answer your question, the world's going to hell here.
	It's getting worse and worse.
	The ozone, you can go over a million things.
	It does seem so, John.
	All right, so this time he says quadruples.
	He's right, you know.
	He did call in February when we had a real spate of UFO sightings, and I said already it's a ding.
	But the rest of the year, so the year taken as a whole, wouldn't be triple the previous year.
	Anyway, he predicts for 2008... Oh, hell, I'll give him a ding.
	Let's make number five.
	Instead of a bonk, we'll make it a ding.
	Because I really did say that in February.
	I was going crazy then.
	Remember that?
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hello?
	Hello.
	Is this Coast to Coast, Andrew?
	Ah, yes it is.
	This is Andrew from St.
	Louis.
	Hello, Andrew.
	My prediction is that the U.S.
	and China will go at war in 2008.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Why?
	Oh, well, the recent events, like, uh, well, they've been, like, sending us a lot of bad stuff, you know?
	Like, uh, the... They're gonna go to war because of toys with lead paint?
	Yeah, like, the... and the green beans that were tainted and the toothpaste thing.
	Yeah.
	Well... I'm not sure that justifies, uh, Armageddon.
	It's not Armageddon, it's just a war, you know?
	Well, you know, it's a nuclear-armed nation.
	It might not be Armageddon, but it'd be a big mess at the very least.
	Well, okay.
	And China tried to prove their military dominance by defeating the U.S.
	Alright, well thank you very much.
	I think that's kind of a reach.
	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.
	Wild Card Line 2, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hey Art, how are you?
	Just fine, sir.
	I'm Josh in Boston.
	Okay, Josh.
	Yes, my prediction is that there will be voter fraud in Either the Iowa, New Hampshire, or Florida Republican primary elections.
	Oh my.
	I won't say which candidate the fraud is going to be against, but yeah, I think it's going to cause, it's going to be a lot worse than Florida was in 2000, I think.
	Worse than Florida?
	That was a mess.
	Florida was like a legal issue and there was a lot of protesting.
	I think this one's going to be a lot worse because of that.
	A lot of people don't trust these voter machines.
	Do you think it'll be connected to that?
	that? Well, when Buchanan was robbed in 1996, it wasn't so much...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.
	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 Diebold machine.
	So there's a precedent for all this.
	All right.
	I appreciate the call.
	Thank you.
	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, why, I spoke to my wife, she's from Mininao, as you know, I think you might know, it's a southern island, the southern part of Mininao is where they have real difficulty with Al-Qaeda, that sort of thing.
	But 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 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.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Oh, Art Bell.
	Oh, this is a total honor beyond belief.
	Thank you so much.
	Thank you.
	What is your first name and where are you?
	Oh, this is Leonard in Alabama.
	Okay.
	This is a prediction of a vision that came to me while I was awake about two years ago and I want to Let's make it a part of the 2008 prediction.
	It will be number 15.
	15, okay.
	What I wanted 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.
	I could sure use one of those.
	Oh yeah, me too.
	And yeah, the vision came to me as a group of people communicating with each other face-to-face and communicating by speaking into these devices.
	And that's my prediction, sir.
	All right, thank you very much for the call.
	And that was a very interesting prediction.
	Can you imagine a little machine I certainly can 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.
	I think that would be helpful.
	That would be so helpful, particularly in world travel.
	And I think it's something that's certainly possible, so that would be cool.
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi, Art.
	This is Manny, driving in Florida, listening on XM.
	Yes, sir.
	I got a prediction.
	I believe this coming year, the two border guards, Campagnon and Chong, or Campagnon and Cheech, whoever it is, I think they'll be pardoned or released somehow.
	You think it'll come pretty early in the year?
	Yeah, mm-hmm.
	And do you think it'll be one of the final... Well, let's see.
	Would that come really early in the year, or do you think it would come before the President leaves office?
	Yeah, before he leaves office, I think.
	That's what's kind of behind it, I think.
	I believe they could have been pardoned earlier, but maybe they held off.
	I mean, the reason they're there in the first place is probably something we'll never understand.
	Yeah, the whole thing is a scandal.
	Yeah, uh-huh.
	But I got a feeling politics will play into it, and in an election year, they may use that as leverage.
	Do you think this whole immigration business will get straightened out?
	Uh, my personal opinion, I think no matter who's elected, things keep on going the way they're going, and it didn't happen overnight.
	I believe this was blueprinted many years ago, unfortunately.
	You know, that NAFTA thing and, you know, North American unification of Canada, U.S., and Mexico.
	I very, very much appreciate your call, and I've got it down.
	The two border guards in the middle of all this controversy pardoned.
	I would think that would indeed be done.
	Hopefully, it won't take until very near the end of the year.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Good morning.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Your first name and location?
	My name is John.
	I'm from Spokane.
	Okay, John.
	I have a prediction for you.
	I've seen in my own vision that we're going to have 90 days of satellite shutdown in 2008.
	I'm sorry, I don't mean to laugh, but 90 days of satellite shutdown?
	You mean all of them?
	It's an attack.
	You guys won't know where it comes from.
	Nobody would know.
	But it's going to be a while without satellite.
	And what would that be due to, do you believe, John?
	I believe that it's... I just said that it's going to... you know, the satellite's coming down, and because of all the... I think it's... I have no idea, but I just say it.
	All right, all right, John.
	Thank you.
	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 groceries.
	I mean, it was a mess.
	I don't know if any of you recall that, but if all 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 communications.
	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.
	Wildcard Line 1, you are on the air.
	Well, my goodness, I got through.
	Art, how are you?
	Quite well, sir.
	Thank you.
	Good.
	In 22 years time, I hope to be making my predictions on the Asia Belt, Joe.
	So, I had to throw that in.
	This is Jim in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania.
	I was one of your predictors from last year, and I got a half a ding.
	I got the event right, and I got the location wrong.
	Remind me.
	Volcanic explosion.
	I said it was probably going to be the island of Montserrat.
	Oh, that's right.
	What number was that?
	Oh, 70-something, I think.
	It's been a year.
	My memory doesn't go back that far.
	Oh, let's see.
	Alright, I'm looking.
	And I don't... I remember it, though.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so for this year...
	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.
	So, explains 2012 calendar.
	The Mayan calendar.
	Not Aztec Mayan calendar.
	I'm sorry.
	I've got Aztec on my brain tonight.
	Mayan.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	There may be a scientific reason why the Mind Calendar ends in 2012.
	I'm not sure we'd like it, or like the explanation.
	Personally, I think that the explanation is so simple, it's right under everybody's noses, and it's going to take somebody of Dr. Kaku's ilk to be able to explain it on a scientific basis.
	Do you think we'll be happy with the explanation?
	Oh, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	It's going to dispel any fears about it, you know, being the end of the world and Armageddon and all that kind of stuff.
	Oh, good.
	All right.
	Thank you very, very much.
	From the high desert, this is Coast to Coast AM.
	Here I am, Steve, in 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.
	22, George Bush commits suicide.
	Well, They didn't say political, so I'm going to give it a bonk.
	As close as I want to get to something I don't want on the air.
	23.
	A nuke exchange, limited albeit, someplace in the world.
	A bonk.
	24.
	Swampland.
	Swampland goes up in price.
	Bonk.
	25.
	HAARP announces they've developed a defense for missiles.
	Bonk.
	26.
	Although, you know, we don't know for sure.
	A new Jacques Cousteau.
	Bonk, as far as I know.
	27.
	The 9-11 truth movement becomes mainstream.
	Well, I thought about that one.
	Unless you count Rosie.
	That's gonna be a bonk.
	But it certainly did gain ground.
	Number 28.
	Owner of the Yankees turns over team.
	Owner of the Yankees turns over team.
	I've got a question mark by that.
	What happened with the Yankees?
	I'm not big on baseball.
	29.
	So I'll come back to that.
	29. 2007.
	I don't think I knew then, nor do I know now, what that meant, but bonk.
	Number 30, Bush vetoes legislation on election fraud.
	Now that may be true.
	I've got a question mark by that.
	So two of them you can help me out with.
	Did he in fact veto legislation on election fraud?
	He might have.
	And the owner of the Yankees turns over team.
	I'm not sure of those two.
	31 big UFO events.
	At some big UFO event.
	In other words, at some sort of a conference, they see a UFO and that's going to be a bong too, as far as I know.
	So, I'll kind of hold on to number 27 and I'll make that 28 and 30.
	You can let me know by fast blast.
	In the meantime, back to predictions for the coming year.
	Let's go to wildcard line 4.
	You're on the air.
	Yeah.
	My prediction is that Gitmo is going to be handed over to Cuba.
	Oh, now why would we do that?
	Oh, I believe that there has been or will be an incident involving a Cuban national on base.
	But really, it was a relative of an Eastern Bloc nation.
	And they're kind of embarrassed over it.
	And given about six to eight months, they're going to hand it over back to Cuba.
	So the Russians can have a warm water port.
	In our hemisphere.
	Well, of course, Russians are sort of acting a little Cold War-ish lately.
	Well, they need a warm water port and there's something to that global warming thing.
	Oh yes, there is, indeed.
	But I don't see Gitmo getting handed back because of some relatively small embarrassment.
	Nevertheless, your prediction is recorded as number 19.
	Okay, thank you.
	All right, thank you very much.
	I don't see it happening.
	If we did it, I would be more shocked than I was when we gave the Panama Canal away, which I didn't think was a really bright idea.
	So, Guantanamo Bay.
	It's handed back over to the Cubans.
	In fact, actually, I'm surprised nobody has predicted the death of Castro.
	Now, by the way, predicting the death of foreign leaders is okay.
	I just don't want domestic assassinations.
	Because that always gets me a visit.
	So if you want to visit the possibility of a foreign leader being assassinated or whatever, you can do that.
	And you would think Castro, of course we keep thinking Castro's about ready to go, and then of course we think Cuba might go in a different direction even though he's already got a successor all lined up.
	First time caller on the line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello Art.
	Matt from Salt Lake City, Utah.
	Hi Matt.
	Hi.
	I predict Ron Paul will win the presidency and Judge Napolitano will be his vice president.
	Really?
	And as part of his platform of removing government secrecy, he opens up Area 51 for daily tours so citizens can see what's really going on out there.
	You really think so, huh?
	Well, it's just as good as any other, so I guess I'll just put that down.
	Okay.
	I would say in 2000 is probably more when that'll happen.
	Let me ask you this.
	Is this really a psychic prediction or is it a political hope?
	It's a hope.
	Okay.
	You know what I'm going to do?
	I'm going to, as I said I was, I'm going to cancel that one.
	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 Armageddon, 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.
	I will not admit it.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello?
	Hello, Art?
	Yes, turn your radio off, please.
	Yes, I did.
	Thank you.
	Okay, good.
	Happy holidays.
	What a pleasure.
	Thank you.
	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.
	Almost happening already, right?
	It's getting pretty darn close.
	The dollar's dropping like a stone, and I know there's been a lot of talk about it, but I do believe this upcoming year that's going to happen.
	Well, let me tell you.
	As you know, I spent eight months in the Philippines.
	When I first got to the Philippines, the exchange rate was 53 pesos to the dollar.
	Yes.
	Today's exchange rate is hovering around 41 or 42 pesos to the dollar.
	That's a big difference.
	Major difference.
	That's why I've got a lot of friends aren't going over to Europe these days too.
	Yeah, I know it's scary and it's gonna be kind of weird to live in a world where the good old US dollar is not the ruler anymore.
	Absolutely.
	And I just think that that's the way it's going.
	And several of these folks have said, you know, that the world is kind of going to hell in a handbasket.
	And I somewhat agree with that.
	But I think along with that, the dominance of the United States is kind of waning as we speak.
	I appreciate the call, sir, 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.
	So, I don't know.
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hi, this is Joe calling you from Pittsburgh.
	I have a prediction if no one else has made it.
	Well, even if they have, you can still go ahead and make it.
	Okay, I think that sometime in mid-2008 that the United States economy is Going to hit a major wall that is going to affect everywhere.
	How much of a wall?
	In other words, describe to me what you think will happen.
	I think it has to do with our reliance on oil and the fact that the United States could not handle an oil crisis right now.
	And that would be the weakest thing that, other than the United States currency, to really bring our country and the world to its knees.
	Alright, I guess I want a little more.
	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?
	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 having tough times coming up.
	And, you know, she was 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 health care is and diseases in the first rate nation of the world are just killing millions and millions
	of people that shouldn't be happening.
	So it's almost as if it's meant to happen for some reason, the powers that be.
	But, 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.
	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 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 the 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.
	Good morning, Art.
	How are you?
	My name is Rick, and I'm calling from the wonderful little city of Rio Linda, California.
	Hi, Rick.
	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 where he takes control, and all its ramifications.
	Meaning what?
	That there will be no election, that kind of thing?
	No election, because there's going to be an event.
	There's going to be... There's 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 dictation.
	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.
	Well, 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, there's This world's about ready to fly apart.
	Okay, I'm you know Yeah, there's a lot of trouble in the world.
	There's a lot of discontent and trouble but You know I just 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.
	Hello.
	Hello, Art.
	11 years I've been trying to get in touch with you.
	It is an honor.
	Okay, it will be number 23, sir.
	Okay, number 23.
	This is Leonard, by the way.
	I'm in Tupelo, Mississippi right now.
	Okay.
	For some reason, and we'll go other than politics and all this, for some reason I keep having dreams about trains.
	And for some reason they're involving a major train crash.
	Now I don't know if that involves a lot of destruction or a lot of death or both.
	But I think sometime next year.
	And again, it's just based on my dreams.
	I'm not psychic or anything.
	Right.
	And I don't mean you're a type where you hear, you know, a train derail and the car's got chemicals in it.
	I'm talking about this is going to be a really, really major one.
	One that kind of goes down in the record books.
	Out of curiosity, sir, is this a repetitive dream?
	Do you have this dream over and over again?
	You know, actually, I do.
	And this is just straight up honest truth.
	Before I took my little trip this evening, I always take a little nap.
	And I had another dream about trains.
	And the one I was on, we stopped and got off.
	And here comes one just flying by us, right up the center of town.
	And it just crashes everywhere.
	And yes, this is a dream.
	I've had this It's been about a year now, just all the time about trains, and I don't have any past bad experiences with trains, but it's just one of those weird things.
	Okay, it is so recorded as number 23.
	I have always enjoyed trains.
	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 marked 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 Hal 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 CostaCostaAM.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 cash from some earlier time.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air, and I hope with a prediction for 08.
	Yes, sir.
	I have a prediction for Air Force One.
	I 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.
	Air Force One disappears?
	Yes, sir.
	According to a dream I've had on a few occasions.
	I don't know if it means a crash.
	I'd hate to say a crash, but either that or possibly something else.
	Well, a crash wouldn't be disappearing, exactly.
	No, sir.
	When I say disappear, I don't mean to disappear as in vanish from sight, but either they will revoke having Air Force One as a 747 and Discontinue flying the President in that manner, or God forbid something else happens.
	All right.
	That'll be recorded as prediction number 24.
	Thank you much.
	Pleasure talking with you.
	Pleasure talking to you.
	Although that's kind of a scary prediction.
	Very scary prediction.
	I would think that they watch what they're doing with Air Force One more than any other airplane that flies and plies our skies.
	Unintentional pun, sorry.
	Wild Card Line 3, you're on the air.
	Oh, great.
	Yes, indeed.
	Is this Coast to Coast?
	That would be the place, yes.
	Turn your radio off, please.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I did.
	Okay, your first name?
	Davida.
	Say that again?
	Davida.
	Davida?
	Uh-huh.
	Very pretty.
	Thank you.
	Okay, where are you?
	Kansas City.
	Okay.
	Okay, 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.
	This is a very broad prediction.
	Well, hang on.
	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, and it's not limited to two people.
	I don't know what to write down here.
	Well, two of them, their real initials of their real identities, Our T.M.
	and N.M.
	And I don't want to say more than that because I don't want you to get a visit because I know who this is I'm talking about.
	I didn't know it when I dreamed about it.
	Well, I dreamed about this, but... Okay, wait.
	T.M.
	and N.M.?
	Right.
	That's the initials of their true identities.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	TM and NM get in trouble.
	How about that?
	Well, yeah, they've been orbiting political circles both domestically and worldwide.
	These are well-known figures.
	All right.
	But they're working with alias identities.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Lisa, I've got something to write down now.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And take care.
	TN and NM.
	I'm not even going to try and discern who they are.
	For a first-time call, no.
	Wildcard Line 1, you're on the air.
	Always great to hear your voice, Art.
	Thank you.
	This is Steve in La Jolla.
	Hey, Steve.
	It's 6 a.m.
	I'm enjoying my last week of cigarettes.
	I'm going on Chantix January 7th.
	In other words, you have already started the half pills?
	No, I don't get the prescription until the 7th.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, the way you do it, when you get Chantix, just so you know, Steve, is that you begin taking the half pills, half milligram pills, and at that point, you set a date about a week away.
	So, you've got a little longer to go.
	Okay.
	With that in mind, your prediction coming up will be number 26.
	Alrighty.
	Well, I bonked big time last time around, but I think I have a good one.
	I think your pyramid pal Zahi is going to step down in 08.
	I don't have any sense about the replacement, but I do see him stepping down and moving on.
	Zahi Awa steps down.
	Yes.
	How did you receive this?
	Most of what I get is in a dream state, and the majority of those are actually in dreams while I'm sleeping.
	Okay.
	As an example, I had a dream two days prior to the Challenger explosion in 86.
	And I actually told friends, and in the morning it happened, they were all calling me going, how did you know?
	Really?
	Yes, sir.
	Ah, that's pretty scary.
	Yes, it was.
	I woke up from that dream, literally.
	I mean, it was so realistic.
	And I said, yep, something big time is going to happen there, so.
	Wow.
	But listen, the best to you and your new family.
	I'm so happy for you.
	Thank you.
	You take care.
	Thank you so very much, and take care.
	So Zahi steps down.
	Okay, that is number 26.
	Each one gets a number, and we review it a year later.
	You, let's see, this will be one of the wildcard lines.
	You're on the air.
	Uh, yes, Art.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Uh, this is Gary in Portland, and, uh, let's see, I predict that, uh, suicide terrorists will get a hold of some dirty nukes, and, um, we'll use them in Iraq, and probably cause a lot of damage.
	So a dirty nuke in Iraq, huh?
	Yeah.
	The ultimate, uh, improvised device.
	Well, it would kill thousands.
	Um, actually, actually, actually.
	I mean, they already have the material.
	Yeah, actually, a dirty nuke probably would not kill thousands.
	It would scare thousands.
	Unless it was really dirty, I'm told that a dirty nuke would have more of a psychological effect than a real effect.
	Well?
	Unless you mean a real nuclear weapon.
	No, no, I don't think they have that.
	But they would have the materials to For a dirty nuke.
	Okay, so you're just talking about a weapon that would scatter nuclear waste, for example, over a pretty good size area.
	A populated area, yeah.
	And this would, if it was done maybe in the middle of the year, put our November elections on tilt.
	Okay.
	Alright, well I don't think that would happen.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	It wouldn't be as bad as they suggest.
	First time caller on the line, you're on the air.
	Oh, it's an honor to speak to you again.
	It's been a long time, Art Bell.
	This is Igor.
	Igor?
	Yeah.
	Where are you, Igor?
	Well, I'm in the great state of Arizona.
	I want to make a prediction about the supervolcanoes.
	Okay, it'll be number 28.
	You know, the one up in Yellowstone, I predict it's either that one or an unknown one in the Phoenix area that's going to blast its cap like a cotton blinker.
	If the caldera in Yellowstone goes, most of the western third of the U.S.
	would be in deep doo-doo.
	That would be a severe understatement.
	And it's going to cause California to hit and at least a 9-5 earthquake.
	And how did this unhappy prediction come to you?
	Well, it's more of an internal sensor.
	I've had dreams before in threes, and they've been outside of one or two small differences.
	They were exact.
	Alright, well listen, I appreciate your prediction.
	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.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Turn your radio off, please.
	Yes, radio off.
	Okay.
	Good?
	Yep.
	Okay, your name, first name only, and where you are.
	Mike, Manhattan, Kansas.
	Okay, Mike.
	You're on the air.
	Hi, Art.
	Hi, Mike.
	Art Bale?
	That'd be me.
	Boy, I listened to you a long time, and you've really made some life changes for me.
	That I have.
	On the people you've had on your show.
	And I have a reoccurring dream every night and every afternoon.
	And it's me and another guy driving down through Texas, down through Mexico, but we can't get to South America.
	For some reason, all we see is a bunch of rocks and oceans.
	Like something happened.
	You're going to have to give me something to write down.
	In other words, you can't get through because you think what happened?
	Uh, between Panama and a small stretch along there, the dream's not clear.
	Thank you.
	But we just can't go any further.
	I don't know.
	Okay.
	I'm going to put, cannot transit to South America.
	How's that?
	Okay.
	Something really catastrophe.
	I don't know.
	I just don't know.
	That's my real... Good enough.
	No, that's good enough.
	I'll put that transit to South America is simply impossible for whatever reason.
	So yes, if you, 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
	is certainly worth knowing about as you know there is a dream
	a registry and I think that's a very good idea place where you can
	actually go and register your dreams on the internet if you
	would like to do so and that's a very worthy endeavor wildcard line you're on the air hi
	Hello? Hello? Hi Art! Hi!
	Hi, sir.
	Where are you?
	I'm in Oklahoma in Tulsa.
	I'm just pulling into Tulsa.
	I drive a truck.
	Okay.
	And your name?
	Kurt.
	Okay, Kurt.
	I really have a gut feeling that something's going to happen in Iran.
	Some kind of action is going to be taken against Iran, either a strike or internally.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Even after this latest revelation that Iran actually stopped its nuclear program?
	Well, I don't think they did.
	You don't?
	Well, I think you and the President share that thought, but the best intelligence, which hasn't been all that good really, has suggested that the Iranian nuclear program was stopped, and you wouldn't think the President would want to accept that particular point of view.
	I don't believe it.
	You don't believe it?
	All right, well, maybe our intelligence, heaven knows it hasn't been exactly spot-on each time, is wrong again and they're really going to town.
	Yeah, and can I ask you a broadcast question about a previous show?
	Sure.
	Okay, I heard a rebroadcast of your interview with Colbeck, a reporter, about the Starship that was built.
	Yes, I recall.
	Okay, what about it?
	Yeah.
	He offered for you to go see it.
	I was wondering if you ever got to go see it.
	I never did.
	No.
	I never did.
	Wow.
	That was a really interesting show.
	It sure was.
	Over the years we've done... It's the most interesting show I've ever heard of.
	Really?
	Thank you very much.
	Well it was.
	We've done many fascinating programs and of course I've received invitations to see this or that.
	But traveling, you know, sort of picking up sticks when you're doing a program five or six nights a week is very, very difficult.
	So I did take up some people's offers.
	For example, I've still got a time machine in the closet.
	Wild Card Line 4, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Good morning, Mr. Bell.
	How are you doing this morning?
	I'm doing very well.
	Well, my prediction I've heard quite a bit tonight about things with the economy.
	Yes.
	And I'm saying that the dollar is going to be tanked on the second week of March between the 10th and the 15th.
	Second week of March, huh?
	Yeah.
	This is Bob from Arkansas, by the way.
	How much?
	Well, it's going to be, you know, like financially dumped worldwide.
	Worldwide?
	Yeah.
	Any idea how it will begin?
	Well, it'll begin from corporations, foreign corporations that have bought American corporations, such as like IBM was a few weeks ago.
	And, you know, those companies will be just sold off, dumped.
	Their workers will be told to go home and that'll be it.
	And that's going to Begin a big avalanche and everybody's going to dump the dollar worldwide.
	And here in the U.S.
	that will lead to what?
	Some sort of recession or depression?
	More like an economic collapse.
	An economic collapse.
	Well, I hate to agree, you know, every time our economy gets in trouble, presidents, Come forward and they always say that the basic US economy is sound.
	And there is something to that still, isn't there?
	In other words, I can see us getting in trouble, I can see a recession perhaps, I can see the dollar dropping some more, but the kind of tanking that you're talking about, don't we have a basically sound economy that wouldn't let it get quite that bad?
	Well, if, you know, like the East Asian markets or something, you know, if they were to really drop it, it, you know, it could really go down to close to the peso.
	I mean, you were talking about that a little bit.
	Yes.
	You know, and if they really drop down hard, I mean, they'll do it right before tax season so that the dollar value itself would, you know, people are going to have thousand dollar taxes and no money to pay it.
	God, that's frightening.
	That's really frightening.
	What's occurred so far, actually, is really frightening.
	I appreciate, listen, your prediction for the record is number 31.
	Okay.
	Okay, thank you very much.
	That truly is frightening.
	I mean, what's occurring right now with the dollar, with our economy, with this housing mess, 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 US.
	Bonk.
	Number 34, a volcano goes off in the Caribbean.
	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 Caesarean 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.
	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.
	No.
	47.
	The war on terror continues.
	Ding ding.
	No.
	48.
	Al Qaeda hits some sort of cruise ship like Carnival Lines.
	Bonk.
	No.
	49.
	An earthquake in L.A.
	March 7th of 2007.
	Well, I've got a question marked 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.
	We'll leave it there for the moment.
	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 Fast Blast. US 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.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air, good morning.
	Hi, this is Beth.
	Hi Beth, where are you?
	I'm from Youngstown, Ohio.
	Alright, Beth.
	Alright, this is my prediction.
	2008, there's going to be a big disease that comes from crows.
	Really?
	Yes, and it's going to spread, I don't know why I keep thinking this, but I've just seen so many crows, and you know when you keep seeing something?
	Sure.
	Well, I don't know, I just, that's my prediction I guess.
	Is there some reason you attach disease to the sighting of these crows?
	Well, just like the whole bird flu scare.
	Yeah.
	And you just keep thinking something like that, so.
	I'm going to do a show.
	I recently read a book on the bird flu.
	Really just scared the hell out of me.
	And I'm going to have him on, I think, perhaps on the 4th.
	And so I'm going to be doing a big show on the bird flu.
	And I suggest you listen to that one.
	That scares me.
	Oh yeah, definitely.
	Okay.
	Okay, thank you.
	Alright, thank you very much for the call.
	Yes, the bird flu really does scare me, and I know it hasn't happened yet, that it hasn't crossed the human, well, it has crossed the human barrier, but only in small ways.
	It hasn't really taken off yet.
	Now, that doesn't mean it's not going to.
	In fact, there are those who suggest it is inevitable.
	It absolutely will cross that barrier and become very, very A serious West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Mark.
	Yes.
	Hey, this is Don from Menifee, California.
	How you doing?
	I'm fine, Don.
	Good.
	Hey, a couple things I gotta go over with you.
	Sure.
	Previous caller, you said third world country, that we would never abandon elections.
	Well, what I said is, that's a third-world kind of move to, you know, announce some sort of martial law and postpone or eliminate elections.
	Okay, but it did happen in World War II, did it not?
	I'm not... No, no, I'm just curious.
	Yeah, I'm not saying such a thing could not occur.
	I said it's a third-worldish kind of thing to imagine occurring in the U.S.
	Right, okay.
	And the second thing was, about three months ago, You're going to have to give this a ding, I think.
	Okay.
	Okay, about two to three months ago, Israel attacked Iran.
	I mean, Iran.
	Now, it was either Iran or Syria.
	I thought it was Syria.
	They attacked Syria, sir.
	Oh, they attacked Syria.
	Okay, so, well, then you've got to bop it.
	To hell with it.
	Right.
	Sorry.
	Okay, my prediction?
	Number 33, whatever it is, go ahead.
	Okay, 33.
	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.
	You think around June 21st, huh?
	Yeah, I'm thinking around June 21st, we're going to have another big one.
	I think it's coming.
	Close to the longest day of the year.
	Any relation to that?
	Close to my wife's birthday.
	Three days off.
	You don't expect California to go bobbing into the ocean?
	No, I'm hoping I'm sitting in Vegas when that happens.
	Beachfront property, right?
	Yes.
	Very jovial.
	Thank you very much.
	So a bad earthquake, folks, in California.
	He says about June 21st or so.
	Hope not.
	If there was really a bad earthquake in California, surely we would, you know, possibly be very much affected here.
	Fort, let's make it the wildcard line two.
	You're on the air.
	You're on the air, sir.
	Don't be sorry.
	Am I on the air right now?
	Yes, you are.
	Turn your radio off.
	The radio's off.
	I'm ready to go.
	Good.
	Go.
	Is this Art?
	Yes.
	Art, great.
	15 years of pushing the redial and I finally made it, sir.
	This is wonderful.
	This is Tim down here in the Gulf Coast around Houston, Texas.
	Hi, Tim.
	And thank you.
	And my prediction would be, in spite of all the naysayers, For 2008, there will not be a single named hurricane across North America.
	Really?
	That's how I feel.
	I've been here for a long time and I've watched the weather and this is a very unusual winter for us as well.
	And I just got that feeling that it has a strange feeling like one many, many years ago.
	I don't see a single hurricane Uh, hitting North America.
	Very interesting, and a positive, uh, kind of prediction.
	I mean, normally people are making negative predictions, you know, big hurricanes to hit here and there.
	Well, I'm sorry.
	No, no, no, no, not to be sorry.
	That's just how I feel.
	And that's not to say we're not going to have tropical depressions.
	That's not to say we're going to have rain, and who knows about floods, you know, how Texas is with floods.
	You know, the hurricanes have a tendency to die off occasionally and they just turn into a big waterfall.
	Absolutely.
	Listen, your prediction, thank you very much, is every bit as interesting, if not more so, than those who predict disaster.
	And this might go out as sort of a message to everybody.
	Not all predictions need be negative in nature.
	Because not all happenings are negative in nature.
	The one thing I will note about the predictions thus far this year indicates that all of you are very seriously worried about the economy.
	And I'm afraid I join you in that concern.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi, this is Simon from Baltimore, and it is an honor to finally get through to you.
	Hello, Simon.
	And God bless you, your family, and how are the kitties doing besides Asia?
	Turn your radio off for me, if you would.
	The kitties are just fine, including our little Philippine immigrant, Dolly.
	She is sitting right outside my room, outside the door, with her little nose right to the door.
	That's how close she is to me.
	Well, I love your show and everything.
	My prediction is the place you don't want to be is New Orleans for the NBA All-Star Game.
	I know last year in Vegas, they had a lot of street trouble and the media sort of suppressed it, but I think this year, I don't know if it's going to be gang war or what, but it's going to be crazy for the NBA All-Star Game in New Orleans.
	It will be anything but the Big Easy.
	I hope it's a bonk.
	Okay, I hope it's a bonk too.
	How is it you see this occurring?
	I mean, is it a dream?
	Is it a vision?
	Is it something that... It'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.
	All right, thank you very much, and take care.
	A first-time caller is going to make a prediction about now.
	Hi.
	Hello?
	First-time caller, are you there?
	Going once.
	Oh, no.
	Gone, gone, gone.
	West of the Rockies, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	I am Vicky from Seattle, Washington.
	Hi, Vicky.
	Hi.
	My prediction is that people of other faiths We'll start looking to the Pope as a spiritual leader, and no, I don't think he's going to die.
	Okay.
	And it'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, or... So in other words, will people begin turning to the Catholic Church?
	Not necessarily to the Church, but just looking as to the Pope is.
	Like, somewhat of a saviour.
	Well, looking to the Pope as a saviour.
	Just kind of like a spiritual leader, like looking to him for spiritual guidance.
	Okay.
	Alright, well I'll accept that, thank you.
	I don't see how that can be anything other than people turning to Catholicism, really.
	If you're looking to the Pope as a spiritual leader, He is the leader of the Catholic Church, right?
	So, I think it's fair to say that people turn to Catholicism, although... I'll put in parentheses here, Pope.
	How's that?
	I don't want to make these up.
	I want to record them properly.
	Wildcard Line, you are on the air.
	Yes, this is the Shibu girl's husband.
	The Cebu girls, a lot of girls from Cebu.
	And my name is Laird.
	Hi Laird, how are you?
	Just great.
	I think everybody's going to be surprised about the Mayan calendar not taking another four years before it ends.
	I think that Christ was born in 4 BC and we're going to be hitting 2012 in just a day or so.
	So Mayan calendar ends early.
	Right, because we're four years late from Christ's birth.
	And what is it you think will occur when the Mayan calendar ticks the final tick?
	I think there'll be some great celestial event.
	Some comet in the sky?
	Some crash into Earth?
	That kind of thing?
	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 try to move it.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Got it down.
	Mayan calendar ends early, and some major event comes along with it.
	He thinks it's about to tick to an end.
	I always thought maybe just, you know, the Mayans just got sick of making calendars.
	You know, maybe something else came along and they just stopped.
	You know, like many others, they thought, well, what the heck?
	We've gone far enough here.
	We're never going to live to see any of this anyway.
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	Hello?
	Hello?
	Yes, sir.
	Yeah, I was trying to get Art Bell.
	That would be me.
	Oh, hi, Art.
	How you doing?
	I'm turning my radio down right now.
	I'm fine.
	Man, I've been a longtime listener.
	I've got all your books.
	I got a signed copy of several of them.
	My prediction, silver is going to be over $20 an ounce by the end of the year.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Gold and platinum are both going to be up there.
	Well, they already are.
	I mean, gold's already up there.
	Yeah, one of your sponsors is, like, saying that, and it's like, they're absolutely online with that.
	Well, they've been saying it for years, and now it's coming true.
	Well, the U.S.
	dollar is so weak right now.
	I'm in Lexington, Kentucky.
	We are the capital of the horse sales of the world.
	There's so many European buyers and Arabs and Japanese coming in here and buying horses right now because their currency is so strong against ours.
	Sure.
	And I got that right from the auction house.
	I believe it.
	I believe it.
	Everything in the U.S.
	right now is a very good buy, as it were.
	We don't want to go to Europe right now because it costs a fortune, right?
	But that's my prediction.
	What's my number?
	All right, silver to go over $20 an ounce, the other metals also, and you know, that makes sense.
	Of course, as the dollar weakens, the precious metals are going to go up.
	That's inevitable.
	It is interesting, all these companies have been preaching this for years, and now here it is coming true.
	The question, of course, is how far all of this is going to go.
	I'm a little bit frightened by what's going on as well.
	I'm sure many of you are.
	It is a little scary, no question about it.
	Walk hard line, you're on the air.
	Yeah, I'd like to make a prediction.
	Okay, what is your first name and where are you?
	I'm in Sherwood, Arkansas, and my name is Charles.
	Okay, Charles.
	Do I tell you my prediction?
	That'd be the way.
	Okay, my prediction is that Mike Huckabee will be our next president.
	You think so?
	I pretty much know so.
	And this comes to you in what way?
	It comes to me in a dream.
	A big pardon?
	It comes to me in a dream.
	In a dream, okay.
	Well, he's certainly surging away, isn't he?
	Oh, he is.
	And almost amazingly so.
	So, that's an interesting prediction.
	Mike Huckabee, next president.
	Recorded as number 39.
	Thank you, sir.
	You're very welcome.
	Take care.
	And let's see.
	We will go to our first time caller line.
	Try that again.
	You're on the air.
	Hi.
	How we doing?
	Just fine.
	Turn your radio off, please.
	Everybody do that right away when you get through.
	Yeah.
	How we doing?
	We're doing well.
	Your first name?
	My name is Joe.
	Okay, Joe.
	And where are you?
	I'm calling from Florida.
	Okay.
	I've been driving.
	I've been hearing your radio.
	I figured I'd call in.
	I figure one of three things are going to happen.
	I think the climate is going to change and we're going to have serious problems.
	Joe, we can only take one prediction.
	That's fair enough.
	I think that greed, politics, and religion is going to be the downfall of mankind.
	That's what I predict.
	I'm not sure that qualifies as a specific prediction, Joe.
	So, do you want to make a specific prediction?
	I just think that's, you know, what's going to happen.
	Greed is ruining the world and religion ain't too far behind it.
	And I think everything's just turning to, you know, the party.
	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 the last call we had, which I really couldn't record as a prediction.
	Sort of a, uh, 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.
	Not 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 line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Art 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.
	I want you to mark this one down, although I do have a warning, and this is going to regard to 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.
	Really?
	That would be nice for a change.
	Yes, and I was thinking just that.
	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.
	Okay, well you're almost into the land of making multiple predictions.
	Like I said, I just want you to mark down the prediction about California.
	Done.
	I just feel in my heart I should warn the people of Wichita to have their preparedness kits ready and plan with the families.
	Alright, alright.
	That's just from my heart to, you know, so that people are safe out there, but... Alright, well, it's so recorded.
	Number 40, then, as California has the lowest fire damage in many, many years.
	And, said he, though not recorded, Wichita Lookouts.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hello, Art.
	Hi.
	If I have a prediction that the Mount Etna is going to explode and cause an earthquake, Leave a crevasse and I'll find an old city in there.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	How did this come to you?
	I went to the flea market and bought some old Roman coins and cleaned them up and it just came to me.
	I just saw a vision of it.
	While you were cleaning the coins?
	Yeah.
	Maybe it was the fumes and stuff.
	I don't know.
	Well, that's honest.
	All right.
	So Mount Etna, let's go, huh?
	Yep.
	Then you find a Roman city or part of one or something.
	All right.
	Well, I appreciate the prediction.
	That is recorded as number 41.
	Sounds good.
	Take care.
	Right.
	Sorry about that.
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hello?
	Hello.
	Yes.
	Calling for Art Bell.
	Well, that would be me.
	How you doing?
	Just fine.
	Calling from Denver.
	Yes, sir.
	And your first name?
	Nick.
	Nick, okay.
	You have a prediction, I... I do.
	That the United States or the international community will boycott the 08 Olympics.
	Oh, really?
	Yes.
	Do you have any... Why?
	China will continue to project hard power and shooting down satellites in confrontations with Taiwan.
	That would be a mess.
	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.
	Yes.
	Okay, this is prediction number 42.
	That's kind of a scary one.
	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.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Going once?
	Yes.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, this is Mike in Ocala, Florida, listening on Sky 97.3 FM.
	All right, way to go, Mike.
	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.
	I'm sorry, a National what?
	Sunday Law.
	Meaning?
	That a day of worship will be enacted by law.
	Boy.
	It would take quite a change.
	I mean, there used to be... Well, like a... 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.
	Yes, sir.
	What do you think would begin to bring something like that around?
	I mean, I just don't see Congress doing that.
	How would you imagine that would occur?
	I'm not sure exactly, but this is going along with, like, taking our rights to bear arms.
	I believe in the Constitution.
	I would hate to see the thing happen, but I strongly believe that it will.
	All right, I appreciate the call, and I appreciate the prediction.
	Wild as it may be, one never knows.
	So, thank you very, very much for the call, and we'll see.
	So, a lot of people see our rights being further limited, and that's absolutely frightening.
	There's no question about it.
	It's frightening.
	Wellester the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello?
	Hello.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, this is Scott in Seattle.
	Hey, Scott.
	How are you doing?
	I'm fine.
	Turn your radio off, please.
	Oh, sorry about that.
	That's all right.
	My apologies.
	I used to call you back in the day as the freak in the Midwest.
	I don't know if you remember that or not, so... Vaguely, I do.
	Okay, good enough.
	My prediction is that something's going to happen to where they can declare martial law and Bush can stay in office.
	Oh, here we go again.
	You really believe that'll happen?
	I do believe that'll happen.
	Something just tells me that, you know, his reign of power is going to have to stay, and that's the only way they're going to be able to do it.
	Okay, well, I'll certainly put it down here.
	Again, that's kind of third-world-ish, but I suppose you never know.
	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?
	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 right by Rainier, so you never know if that's going to blow.
	And I think that if you had enough calamities going on like that, that, you know, Well, all right, let me try this.
	Do you think that the calamity that you're talking about, whatever it would be, would be a natural event or an orchestrated event?
	Well, okay, but with HAARP, is it natural?
	When I say natural, Etna going, for example, or Yellowstone, or something like that would be a natural event.
	What I'm asking is, do you think the President, in order to stay in office, would precipitate an event?
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, that's what I thought.
	Okay.
	Alright, well I've put it down as number 44.
	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 Hello?
	This is Arvell.
	I'm sorry I can't speak with Arvell.
	I'm sorry.
	This is Michael.
	do away with the precious freedoms that they promised to protect. I just don't
	see it. But then again, maybe I'm not naive. Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello? Hello. Is that Arvell? That would be me. I'm sorry, I can't believe it. This is Michael. I'm in Texas. Okay,
	Michael. Here's my prediction.
	Here, about two months ago, Norrie had a guest on that was talking about that type of stuff.
	Talking about what?
	I'm sorry, what?
	George Norrie had a guest on that was talking about certain items, and he made a comment that really struck me.
	He said that Homeland Security had just made an order for Enough ammunition.
	I mean, as far as the order goes, it was more than any department in the government history has ever made as far as one order of ammunition.
	Yes.
	And I don't personally think that they ordered it for, you know, a firing range.
	I think they know something's coming down.
	Okay.
	You're calling, hopefully, to make a prediction here.
	Yeah, the prediction is, you know, as far as the economy, as far as I do believe the dollar is going to drop to nothing.
	And I do believe when that happens, the economy is going to go into a depression.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I've got it, and your prediction is going to be recorded as number 45.
	And, you know, one thing is clear tonight.
	I mean, we're most of the way through the program tonight.
	We've got another 30 some odd minutes.
	But one thing is very clear, and that is there is a tremendous amount of concern for the economy.
	And I must say that I share that with you all.
	Clear as a bell, it's coming through that everybody is very worried about the U.S.
	economy.
	And there are already plenty of signs to be generating that kind of concern.
	I hope it's not as bad as it seems.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello, Art.
	Hello, sir.
	Yeah, I'd like to make a prediction.
	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.
	Oh my God.
	Last prediction show because of economy.
	The economy collapsed and then we get invaded by Russia and China.
	Okay.
	That's an awful lot to add to it.
	Because of the economy, I guess I could go with that one, but then an invasion of Russia and China?
	Russia, China, probably Cuba with Venezuela throwing in.
	So as we're staggering to our economic knees, our old enemy and our new enemy both come rushing in and finish us off.
	Yeah, they want what's actually worth anything in the United States, you know, our land, our agriculture.
	All right, well, I appreciate the call.
	Not so much the prediction, but I'll put it down.
	Yikes.
	You know, as bad as an economic collapse of some sort might be, he just added to it.
	Okay, let's go, oh, I don't know, here.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hi, it's John calling from Vancouver Island.
	Hi, John.
	How are you doing today?
	Well, these are getting pretty dire, these predictions, but I'm alright.
	Well, you know, we always swing to the negative, I think, don't we?
	Yes.
	Yeah, which leads me to my next, well, my only prediction.
	Well, which one do you want?
	I got two.
	I got one that's in North America and one that's in the Middle East.
	I want the one that you wish me to record.
	Well, okay, let's go with the world event.
	I believe that we're going to see A peace agreement, as it's been in the news.
	I think it's going to be successful.
	There's going to be a lot of bloodshed.
	Peace with who?
	Between the Palestinians and Israel.
	Ah, Mideast peace.
	Yes.
	It's coming.
	That would be nice.
	Well, the problem is, 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 my prediction is that 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.
	So, in other words, it'll get bad, and then it'll get better?
	I think it's going to be severely bad internally, both for the Palestinians and for Israel.
	Of course, that'll be nothing new.
	As you mentioned, it's generational.
	It's been going on for generations and generations.
	Yeah, but it's nothing like the world's seen before.
	Nothing like the world's seen before.
	Um, and I know it's, within part of my prediction, I believe it's going to have something to do with that missing nuke that you guys are missing.
	You guys?
	You guys.
	The United States.
	Oh, I see.
	You're not in the U.S.?
	No, I'm on Vancouver Island.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	There's two Vancouver's.
	I'm sorry.
	All right.
	All right.
	Listen, thank you very much for the prediction.
	It is hereby required.
	I just put down Mideast Peace.
	That sounds pretty good, doesn't it?
	Number 47, going to the first time caller line.
	You're on the air.
	Hey, good morning, Mr. Bill.
	Good morning.
	This is Keith from Illinois.
	Yes, Keith.
	Can I briefly tell you how I get my predictions?
	Give me the prediction first, because we're closing in on the bottom of the hour here.
	Sure, sure sir.
	My prediction is that the draft, military draft, will be reinstated by lottery, the way it used to be.
	Okay, and how do you get these?
	Well, it actually all started with sleep apnea.
	I sleep in a CPAC machine, but I still wake up about every 20 to 30 minutes.
	Well, when you get interrupted sleep, I'm going to have to cut it off here, you get interrupted sleep, like sleep apnea, you do a lot of dreaming, no question about it.
	A lot of dreaming.
	So, he thinks a draft is going to be reinstated.
	By the way, we had a similar prediction, which is going to get bonked, last year.
	It is interesting, though, that people who sleep very lightly, people who have interrupted sleep, do indeed a great deal of dreaming.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello, Art.
	My name is Al.
	I'm calling from St.
	Augustine, Florida, listening on WFOY.
	Welcome.
	Welcome.
	Thank you.
	I have a prediction.
	My prediction is that you, or someone like you, will take over George Norton's show next year.
	So, another host?
	Yes.
	Another host takes over the show.
	He's not very much liked by many people.
	Well, you always run into that.
	I appreciate the call, and I will so record it.
	There we go.
	Another host takes over show.
	I used to make that prediction about me all the time.
	And it was occasionally correct.
	All right, let's see.
	Let's go to West of the Rockies.
	You're on the air.
	Hello.
	This is Olin in Culver City, California.
	I remember you, Olin.
	We don't have a lot of time.
	It'll be prediction number 50.
	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.
	41% of the illegal aliens are getting welfare.
	Alright, that's Colin in Culver City.
	California runs out of money.
	Well, that's not too hard to imagine nor predict.
	This is Coast to Coast AM.
	Once again, coming through loud and clear is your concern about the economy.
	Looking again at a few of the Well, I'll tell you, these 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 would 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.
	All 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 bonked 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... It certainly would shake things up at the last moment, wouldn't it?
	Well, we'll see.
	That's my prediction, number 51.
	That said, back we go.
	First time caller line, you're on the air.
	Hello, Art.
	Hi, uh, actually, uh, I wanted to make, uh, my prediction for 2008 would be that the, uh, actually that the Cubs will, uh, make it to the World Series this year.
	Cubs make World Series.
	Okay.
	Uh, and now I want to make sure that this is, uh, really a prediction and not a hope.
	Uh, well, it's kind of a hope, but it's actually a prediction because, uh, I, uh, It's around the 100th anniversary of them playing, or winning the World Series.
	It doesn't sound like this is coming from your psychic center.
	It sounds like it's coming from the center of your fandom.
	Well, I am a fan, but I've had this feeling that they're going to make it.
	I don't think they're going to win it, but I think they're going to make it.
	Okay.
	I will then put it down as prediction number 52.
	That the Cubs make the World Series.
	But that was kind of edgy.
	Right on the edge.
	Please, folks, you're a psychic center.
	These are the Rockies.
	You're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hello, Art.
	Hi.
	This is Neil from South Carolina.
	Yes, Neil.
	I predict for 2008 You there?
	Yeah, I'm listening.
	You predict what?
	I predict for 2008 that there will be a mass homicide situation near Charleston, South Carolina involving a steamroller.
	A steamroller?
	Yeah, I had it.
	It came to me.
	It hit me all at once watching a construction site.
	A steamroller will kill upwards of 100 to 150 individuals.
	Not a good way to go at all.
	No sir, I believe this will happen between the month of March and September.
	That's awfully specific.
	How does this come to you?
	I was walking home from work and I passed a construction site and I saw it and it hit me.
	I saw the vision in my head.
	All these people under a steamroller.
	My God, that's awful.
	All right, so recorded as number 53, predictions by their very nature tend to be negative.
	And I'm getting a lot of comment on how many negative predictions there are, but that's the way it is.
	You know, that's the way the world is.
	Negativity sells.
	And that's worth doing a whole show on why negativity sells.
	In the news, you rarely get, you know, a positive story.
	It's almost all negative news.
	That's what people want.
	That's what people watch.
	That's what people are interested in.
	That's what sells.
	Everything is ratings.
	Ratings equal money.
	And that's what sells.
	It's an interesting phenomena, isn't it?
	That human beings are not more positive.
	When they think about the future, when they try and predict the future, they concentrate on the negative.
	It's just the way it is.
	And one day it's worth doing a whole show on.
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi Art.
	This is Jeff from Edmonton, Alberta.
	Hi Jeff.
	Hi, this is about the thousandth time I've tried to call you, first time in.
	Thanks very much for taking the call.
	Thanks for trying so hard.
	Thank you.
	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'm not a, I don't have a PhD or a 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 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 going towards a currency for all of the Americas.
	Just as a matter of interest, what is the difference between the US dollar and your dollar in Canada right now?
	Do you know?
	Well, it did hit $1.10 a month or two ago, and I believe that It is within one cent.
	Really?
	Of the U.S.
	dollar today.
	And I can tell you in one second here, I'm just looking at my, it is, let's see, the U.S.
	dollar is worth almost 98 cents now to the Canadian dollar.
	So the Canadian dollars were two cents more than the U.S.
	dollar.
	Good Lord!
	But you know what?
	It's going to stay like that.
	The Canadian dollar is going to be one or two cents more or one or two cents less.
	So basically, you know, it's on par with each other.
	I believe that that was by design.
	That was not by accident.
	This is so that we can go towards a currency for all of the Americas.
	I know that the U.S.
	did make a free trade agreement with or some kind of trade agreement with Peru this year.
	I don't think we're anywhere near ready for all of the Americas.
	You know, we may be pretty close to common currency with Canada, but nowhere near Mexico and on south.
	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 the 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 you know the European Union and so it's very important.
	So my prediction is that Canada for 2008 is that the United States and Canada is going to be pushing for to be on the same currency.
	Very very interesting prediction and I thank you very much.
	It's number 54 that the US and Canada combined currencies.
	I can see something like that occurring in our own defense.
	The European Union certainly has been moving forward economically.
	We can see what's beginning to form in Asia.
	And we're going to have to find a way to compete with it.
	I know everybody hates the prospect of nations joined economically.
	People just absolutely hate it, and I understand the root and the reason for that dislike, but it may be an economic reality that we just simply cannot ignore very much longer.
	I've seen it coming for years.
	A lot of people have seen it coming, and I'll leave it at that.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Good morning, sir.
	Good morning, Art.
	Listen, I hate to be doom and gloom, and I... That's all right.
	We'll just join the bunch here.
	Well, I hate to be negative, but, and this may be the big one, I seriously, seriously hope I am wrong, but they're going to begin to notice the moon drifting closer to the Earth.
	And this has been happening since around 2000, and there's going to be signs that are going to show it, and I could go into the technology a bit and all, but... Well, I wish you would a little bit.
	I thought the opposite was occurring, and the moon was actually...
	They say the moon's drifting away from the Earth at about an inch a year, but all the planets are lining up, and the gravitational pull is increasing, and we're coming closer to another star, and all of that.
	I think I mentioned that before, that the two trains pass each other, and they experiment with radiation, and they took the thing off.
	You know, it's like energy between our star and other stars creating gravitational fields.
	Anyway, the moon, you feel, is going to begin moving toward the Earth, scaring the hell out of everybody.
	Right.
	That's why these triangle-flying saucers are getting ready to offload, evacuate the elite.
	Well, a triangle, by its very nature, is not a saucer.
	No, I mean the triangle-flying saucers.
	Yeah.
	Triangles are not saucer-shaped.
	What you mean is triangle-flying UFOs.
	UFOs, the big UFOs.
	Okay.
	All right, thank you very much, and take care.
	Well, it would be something if we went outside and looked up and the moon was about twice the normal size.
	That'd be cause for worry, wouldn't it?
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Mr. Bell.
	Turn the radio off, please.
	I did.
	Good.
	And your name is?
	I'm Don, the paperboy from Brainerd.
	Okay.
	Welcome.
	My prediction is for you, I predict that our bill will hold the ghost-to-ghost net and the predictions net on 40 meters next year.
	It's to go with the prediction that you wouldn't be on the air next year.
	Well, listen, I wouldn't do that and I couldn't do that because broadcasting is not legal.
	I didn't say broadcast, I said net.
	I didn't say broadcast, I said net.
	Coast to coast net.
	You could coordinate the net and people could check in with their coast guards.
	Yes, but it would still be an entertainment item, which would be illegal.
	Bye.
	Okay.
	Okay, so I'm going to hold off from adding that one because it simply would not be legal.
	Okay.
	Not to say that, well, I'll just leave it at that.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Oh, hello.
	Am I on the air?
	You are.
	Yes.
	This is Jane calling from New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
	Welcome.
	And it's time for a positive prediction.
	Oh, let's have it.
	Little Asia Rain is going to be having a brother or sister.
	Oh, my God.
	Who will be conceived during 19, er, 2008.
	Um... Okay.
	I almost, uh, don't want to write this one down.
	He needs a little brother or sister.
	This came to you psychically?
	Absolutely.
	It's gonna happen.
	I see it as a bonk, but 56, number 56 is what it is.
	God bless you both.
	Bye-bye.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Oh, you surprised me there.
	I could have shut off my radio here.
	Yes, thank you.
	This is Keith in Hamilton, Ontario.
	Hi, Keith.
	Hello.
	I don't know if you remember me last year telling you my streak of 8 for 8 correct predictions in your show.
	And they're not all, you know, your average ones.
	Hurricanes, predicted at murdered actress, disease, race wars.
	I have to say I hit a grand slam last year, number 84.
	I mean look, I haven't of course yet come upon number 84, but let me see, 84 was another wrestling fatality.
	Oh my god, yeah you did.
	That's a big ding ding ding ding of course.
	And two, and so many levels, I mean not only was it a tragedy on his part and his family, but it also started the controversy of steroids.
	Yeah, you're absolutely right.
	That's a monster ding.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Okay, I'm impressed.
	I'm impressed.
	So then everybody's going to be looking forward to what you're going to say tonight.
	So I'm 9 for 9.
	Great.
	This year's prediction is hard to believe and mine are always very negative.
	But this is bad and it keeps happening and I don't understand why.
	There's going to be a lot more school shootings.
	Oh boy.
	Yeah.
	Um, of course that's what Evelyn predicted.
	Oh.
	I'm sure you recall that, don't you?
	Uh, no.
	More school shootings, huh?
	Yes.
	Okay, since you're so good with predictions and you're making such a negative one here, let me ask you if you have any idea why?
	I don't know.
	Because of you, actually, I make top 10s.
	This year, actually, I was 9 for 10 in my predictions.
	I did predict Habudo being assassinated, too, by the way.
	I think I was number 4 on my list, but the one I felt strongest was the wrestling tragedy.
	But in terms of why school shootings, I don't know, except for not meaning to put you down.
	Handguns are so rampant in the state.
	Well, they're going to be for all our lives.
	I mean, guns are going to be around.
	That's all there is to it.
	They're already out there.
	Yeah, the easiest thing a kid could do is bring a gun to school.
	Alright, thank you very much and take care.
	So, more school shootings, number 57.
	Let's go west of the Rockies and say you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Hi, Richard in Las Vegas.
	Hi, it's good to talk to you, Mr. Bell.
	And to you.
	Happy New Year to you and your family.
	And the very same to you, despite all the negativity in the air.
	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.
	What do you imagine?
	Well, I imagine trade.
	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.
	I've felt this kind of for a while now.
	Well, our cruise ships get close.
	I took a cruise down into the Caribbean, came within just, oh, just a very few miles of Cuba, very close to their coastal waters.
	It was interesting and, of course, Listen, thank you for your prediction.
	We're way out of time here.
	I understand and I appreciate it, and all the best for the New Year to you and your great family.
	Take care, my friend.
	That was prediction number 58.
	If you didn't get through, ah, not to worry.
	Tomorrow night, we will continue with predictions for the year 2008.
	In the meantime, you're ahead.
	Happy New Year, all.

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