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Dec. 30, 2008 - Art Bell

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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Predictions 2009 - Part 1

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	From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world's time zones, all of them ever so well covered like a blanket by this program, Coast to Coast AM.
	In for George Norrie tonight, tomorrow night, I'm Art Bell.
	And this is the Annual Predictions Show, part one this evening.
	Now, it is an opportunity for you to make A single prediction.
	One prediction!
	Now, we'll get to these specific rules here in a few moments, but we've been doing this now for more years than I care to count.
	What a very, very long time.
	Now, you're going to be flooded over the next few days on the radio and the television with, you know, various professionals making predictions.
	And I've learned over the years that you are as good, if not better, than the pros at doing it.
	Now, this audience is a special audience.
	This audience... This audience, I believe, over the years, has congealed into a group of people who have a bit more sensitivity, a bit more cognitive ability than the general population.
	Well, that better be true anyway.
	So, we're going to review last year's predictions made for the year 2008.
	Now, that's going to be a tough one.
	Really a tough one.
	Because 2008 was really a tough one.
	Boy, when it's gone, good riddance to 2008 in more ways than one.
	For me, not so good personally.
	For the nation, definitely not so hot.
	For those who don't know, I lost my mom December 23rd.
	This is cool.
	The link to the server went down from my phone calls.
	That's going to be problematic.
	Let me check on it very quickly here.
	A little message came up and said your link to the server is gone.
	So we'll give it a shot here and see what we can do.
	That will be problematic for doing a prediction show, won't it?
	Bring it back up here.
	Anyway, 2008, PUI.
	2008 PUI and I mean PUI December 23rd
	Personally, you know, I lost my mom.
	So for me, that was really tough.
	And I guess most of you know that I was very close to my mom.
	And now it says a link to the server could not be established.
	Let's try taking the whole thing down here and try again.
	Fascinating.
	This is going to be problematic.
	Um, very close to my mom, and very fortunately, folks, I did, as I guess some of you know, I got back to visit my mom shortly before she passed, at a time when she was still in good shape mentally, if not physically.
	After the awards ceremony, the induction to the National Radio Hall of Fame, I went directly to North Carolina because I heard she was not well.
	And, of course, she got to meet her granddaughter, And that was it was really something.
	And I mean, it was really something.
	So there you have it.
	So I'll mourn my mom.
	She had a good long life, lived to be in her 90s.
	And I doubt that I'll make it that far.
	But but she certainly did.
	And most of it in superb condition.
	And for those guys back in the network, yeah, I'm not getting through.
	It says now the director is not free.
	That's an interesting response.
	Oh, there it is.
	Okay, now I've got something.
	I don't know what.
	We have a little software.
	I should explain what all this is.
	There's a little, we do this by ISDN, and there's a little software program we have that allows me to answer my own calls.
	Now, if all goes well and the software stays together, We'll take unscreened calls.
	I don't believe in call screening, so we'll take unscreened calls.
	And it looks like a lot of lines are ringing, so I suppose it's working now.
	And we'll let you make a prediction.
	Now, there are going to be some rules to these predictions.
	And they're simple.
	One prediction per customer.
	And only one.
	I will only register one prediction.
	No matter how you beg and scream.
	Now you can make more than one, but I will only register one.
	So you make up your mind what it's going to be and don't make it lightly.
	Take a moment.
	You know, we'll do a break here if nothing else.
	Quiet your mind.
	Look ahead to the very near 2009.
	Even based on current events.
	Come up with something you think is going to occur in 2009 that, when we look at it, at the end of 2009, we will say, my God, this person was right on!
	We'd better get them on the air and interview them, they're good!
	There were a few last year like that, we'll talk about them.
	So in other words, quiet your mind, let it come to you, if you would, please.
	No predictions of assassinations!
	Do I make myself clear?
	I will push the little button on you that erases you as if you never existed.
	We have a time delay.
	So I can erase portions of the program.
	You won't even know they disappeared.
	It'll be like you never existed.
	So, no predictions of assassinations!
	Not allowed!
	That inevitably brings guys with guns to my door, and I hate it.
	Happened to me many, many years now.
	Guys in suits, yes, with sunglasses.
	Bulges, you know, where the gun is.
	And they put me through this interview process.
	It's a real pain in the pizoo.
	So, you know, and I say, look, it's a talk show and we're doing predictions.
	And they say, yeah, but we have to do this.
	It's our job, Mr. Bell.
	You know, so why put up with it?
	No predictions of assassinations at all.
	Now, one last thing.
	I know it sounds like a lot, but it's not.
	Please make them predictions, not wishes.
	If wishes were fishes, I don't want to hear your political wish.
	Whatever it is.
	You know, something you just want to get on the air.
	So it's got to be a prediction.
	You know, a prediction is just that, right?
	With that, what I do is I I have this list numbered, and I will assign each prediction you make a number.
	It will go into the Bell Family Vault after tomorrow's program for another year, and we'll review it as we're about to review those made last year for 2008.
	Again, a rotten year in my opinion.
	I mean, my God, look at this year!
	What could still turn out to be a fatal blow to the economy.
	I know that's a little on the glass-half-full side, but it sure feels like that.
	Could be a fatal blow to the economy.
	Nothing like this since the Great Depression.
	And it may yet turn into one.
	Now, the start of a war, here recently, where it is said all wars and mankind, for that matter, may end.
	The Middle East again.
	A guy who made off with your money.
	Fifty billion dollars of it or something.
	Allegedly.
	Yeah, a guy who made off with your money.
	A historic president-elect.
	No question about that.
	And oh, what a campaign, huh?
	A bailout for all from Uncle Sam dressed up as Santa.
	I mean, this just was a wild year.
	It was a wild year.
	So, listen, with the phone lines tonight, it's a little different.
	As I said, I do open lines.
	I don't screen the calls.
	And so, call me before you start drinking, right?
	If I detect levels of alcohol that are inconsistent with good radio, you're gone.
	Push the button.
	You don't exist.
	So, that's it.
	It's easy after that, otherwise you get to make your predictions.
	In a moment, I will review some of the predictions that all of you made last year for 2008, the rotten year.
	2008, we'll be right back.
	All right, by the way, if you want to make your way to coasttocoastam.com and check out Art's webcam, there's a picture of my precious little Asia Bell.
	That was taken, by the way, not very long ago on the on the way back from Hawaii, on the way to Hawaii, on a Holland America ship.
	And she, we were way up at the top of the ship and they had this, I don't know, it's kind of like a, I don't know what you'd call that.
	It's like, it was like an inside a volcano or something.
	But it was really cool on the ship.
	And so we took some photos and she loved it.
	She was having a blast as you can see there.
	She's a darling, as is Aaron, and so all the ABs, both those fleshed and those with fur, are all well.
	All right, looking back now on what you said for 2008.
	Number one, there would be tornadoes, terrible tornadoes in the Midwest, really bad.
	And that immediately gets a ding, ding, ding, ding.
	It was a horrible year.
	Absolutely an awful year for tornadoes all through the Midwest.
	And while obviously we have them every year, we don't have the kind of intensity that this caller predicted and occurred.
	That's a definite ding, ding, ding, ding.
	Number two, that Mitt Romney and Giuliani would be the candidates.
	That would be a giant bonk.
	Number three, and this is a little difficult to read, it's my own handwriting, that's why.
	2007, something about Mars, something will hit Mars and reveal a prior civilization.
	Bonk.
	Nothing hit Mars.
	There could be a prior civilization, but we don't know about it yet.
	Number four, a civil suit against Hillary and Bill for campaign fraud.
	Bonk.
	As far as I know.
	Although, everybody sues everybody for everything.
	You never know.
	No. Number five...
	Number 5.
	Ha ha ha ha ha!
	Number five was that in May of 2008, oil would go below $50 a barrel.
	Well, it's too bad that the person said in May of 2008, who in the world would have expected oil below $50 a barrel,
	but it did go below $50.
	In fact, flirting now below the $40 level, and some say it could be at $25.
	So, you know, I'm going to bonk that, but it really, it deserves a sort of a sympathetic ding, ding, ding.
	Because who in the world could have predicted that?
	Number six, a major metro area helicopter hits a building.
	I'm going to have to ask your help on that one.
	I remember something about a big helicopter and a building, but it's a tentative bonk until I hear differently.
	Number seven, the Dow to fall below 11,000.
	Well, hell yes!
	Ding, ding, ding!
	Way below.
	Down to what?
	About $8,600 to do even with today's gains.
	Number 8.
	Art Bell comes to Colorado.
	Bonk.
	I guess I flew over Colorado.
	That's about all.
	Number 9.
	Bugs leads us to Bigfoot.
	Well, not yet, Ollie.
	Bonk.
	Number 10.
	The economy falls apart.
	It's a two-parter.
	Economy falls apart and election delayed.
	Well, the election was not delayed, but for the economy falling apart, hell yes.
	Ding, ding, ding, ding.
	So, no question about that one, huh?
	Number 11, three earthquakes in Hawaii.
	Gosh, I remember something about that.
	I'll leave that one kind of debunked, but I'll leave Uh, to correction, number 12, a number of UFO sightings, the number of UFO sightings will quadruple in 2008, and I believe that would be a bonk.
	There were a lot of sightings, but not that many.
	Number 13, US and China go to war.
	Thank God that's a bonk.
	And number 14, voter fraud in the primaries.
	Well, now.
	There were allegations of not so much voter fraud in the primaries as the registration fraud.
	You remember all that?
	By the way, what the hell happened to that story?
	What the heck happened to that story anyway?
	It just disappeared.
	Did you ever notice that after the election?
	You know, that whole story just went away.
	It wasn't even important.
	Only important at the moment.
	Alright, we'll stop there at number 14 for now.
	We will continue to review those made for 2008 periodically during the show, but not bad.
	Remember, these predictions are made for specific things to occur, wild things to occur.
	In a specific year.
	So if you hit one, it's pretty impressive.
	And there were several hits in those first 14, at least a few.
	So I'm impressed so far.
	Here are the numbers.
	West of the Rockies, 800-618-8255.
	East of the Rockies, 800-825-5033.
	First time callers, we love you.
	Area code 818-501-4721.
	Wildcard line.
	Actually lines, plural, we have many.
	Area code 818-501-4109.
	That's 818-501-4109.
	first-time callers we love you area code 818 501 4721 wildcard line actually
	lines plural we have many area code 818 501 4109 that's 818 501 4109
	internationally if you can get hold of the international operator 800
	That's 800-893-0903 from wherever you are in the world.
	Well, all right, let's give it a shot, shall we?
	Let's go... Where is this?
	I think it's the first time caller line.
	If you guys back there would mark these lines, that would be of great assistance.
	Well, that's interesting.
	I notice that I'm...
	hitting this and it's not not happening let's try it this way have perhaps an idea this happened before and again our software has decided it's going to it's not going to work at the moment so kind of odd wouldn't you say I think this is as it should be folks if you're You're listening back there in California.
	Go ahead and key up the first-time caller line for me back there, if you would please, if you're able, and I'll say, hey, good morning.
	You're on the air.
	Yes, good morning.
	How are you doing?
	Well, I'm okay.
	Better than my software.
	Yeah, man, I am a first-time caller.
	And you're on the cell phone too, aren't you?
	Yes, I am.
	Can you hear me?
	I can.
	Okay, I'd like to give my prediction for 2009.
	Yes, sir.
	Okay, I predict that alien spacecrafts will land in Memphis, Tennessee, or they will prepare the airport area to land because they need a special platform.
	Why Memphis?
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	How did this come to you?
	Actually, it was a prediction that the late Jean Dixon made in the 70s, and apparently, it's a long story, you don't have the time for me to tell you, but the late Jean Dixon did come to Memphis in about 1970, and she made a prediction, and apparently I'm part of the prophecy.
	I see.
	That there would be four, maybe five people at the airport to greet them, and that they would, you know, accept these four or five people.
	Okay, are you calling from Memphis, by the way?
	Oh, yes I am, yeah.
	So you plan to go to the airport there and meet them when they land?
	Yes, since I am part of the prophecy.
	I know you don't have the time now, I would like to... No, I really don't.
	Do you fancy they might take you along?
	Well, not that much as being just sort of an official spokesman.
	Well, if they land in 2009, they're really coming down in the middle of a mess, huh?
	Oh, yeah.
	All right.
	Well, listen, good luck in 2009, with or without the aliens.
	Have a good one, sir.
	Thank you very much for the call, and take care.
	Let's move on to the west of the Rockies line.
	I'll let them pull these up for me back there.
	Good morning.
	You're on the air.
	Hello, Art.
	Hi.
	Yes, Happy New Year to you and your family.
	Thank you.
	I'm not sure how to put this.
	When I was younger in my teens, I had a very, very vivid dream of a nuclear holocaust.
	And the last couple of days, I've been having the same feeling that I had back then.
	And I keep getting glimpses of this again.
	So I don't know.
	It's something I'm feeling is going to happen in 2009.
	It's going to be nuclear.
	And I think it's going to be in the States.
	So you're predicting a nuclear device detonates in the U.S.?
	In the U.S., yes.
	Oh, boy.
	I know.
	I don't like to put things out that I'm a very positive person, but this has really been weighing on me here the last couple of days.
	All right.
	I hate to put this down, but I will.
	I know.
	I know.
	I even hate to call it in, but it's something that's just really feeling strong.
	I've got it.
	Thank you very, very much.
	I certainly appreciate the call.
	That's horrible.
	What have we got so far?
	I'd rather have the aliens landing in Memphis than something detonating in the United States.
	You have to imagine that's a possibility, though.
	No question about it.
	Eventually, somebody's going to get their hands on one.
	All right.
	East of the Rockies, I think I've got control, and you're on the air.
	Yes.
	Hi, Art.
	This is Bill in West Hartford, Connecticut.
	Hello, Bill.
	Hi.
	And I have a prediction for 2009, and it relates to the fact that I am emotionally, as well as intellectually, connected to the space program.
	As you might know, I'm an amateur astronomer, and my prediction is Next year, NASA, using its Kepler spacecraft that will be launched in March or April of next year, 2009, Kepler is going to look for Earth-size extrasolar planets, meaning Earth-terrestrial planets about the size of Earth.
	Preferably in the habitable zone.
	So your prediction is Kepler will find one or what?
	Well, Kepler is, there's a saying now, they don't know right now yet, but they're saying tentatively it could find a hundred.
	Okay, what is your prediction?
	Kepler will find dozens of planets in the habitable zone and Seto Stack will have places to aim its antenna to.
	Wow.
	All right.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	I couldn't scratch a prediction out of that.
	I'm sorry, Bill.
	From the high desert, we'll be right back.
	Predictions.
	Predictions for 2009.
	Thus far, I'm not...
	Really revved about what we've got.
	Aliens landing in Memphis and a nuclear device detonating in the United States.
	Both of them, you know, probably going to get bombed next year.
	So try and keep these.
	I mean, I'm going to write them down, you know, through your predictions.
	I'll write them down.
	I couldn't get one from Bill.
	He's a good example of what not to do when you call.
	You've got to have a specific prediction ready for me to write down.
	If I don't know what to write by the time the commercial break gets here, it's, you know, what can I do?
	All right.
	Back to it.
	Well, no, wait.
	There's this thing about commercials.
	So we'll do those, then we'll get back to it.
	We'll be right back.
	All right, now we can do it.
	Let's go back to the lines and say hi there on the wildcard line.
	You are on the air.
	Hi, Art.
	This is Dan in Los Angeles.
	You, Dan.
	Okay, my prediction for 2009.
	Nine is a number associated with Satan, the devil.
	So, according to the book of Revelation, Satan will rule planet Earth for five months.
	And the number nine, the ninth commandment is, thou shalt not bear false witness.
	Satan is the father of lies.
	I thought it was six.
	No, six is thou shalt not kill.
	No, six, six, six.
	A cat has nine lives.
	Satan is the angel of death.
	Also, the Beatles were involved in the occult.
	They used the number nine.
	Paul is dead.
	So your prediction is?
	Satan will rule planet Earth for a period of five months using the demonically possessed body of Bill Clinton, the Antichrist.
	See, that's a wish, not a prediction.
	And that's ridiculous anyway.
	I'm not putting it down.
	So there you have it.
	I'm just, I'm not going to do it.
	What you have given me is a sort of a politically motivated opportunity to slam Bill Clinton and a bunch of nonsense.
	So I'm not putting it down.
	I'm not.
	So I'm still up for number three.
	I'm pretty tough at this, so hey, don't mess with me.
	This would be, I think, East of the Rockies.
	You're on the air low.
	Yes, this is Eric from Alabama.
	Hello, Eric.
	Yes, my prediction for 2009 is that there's going to be a new monarch on the throne of England.
	And it won't be Prince Charles.
	Really?
	Do you want to tell us how you think that might happen?
	I'm not sure if the Queen will pass.
	I think there's going to be an illness involved and she will either abdicate or she will pass.
	I'm leaning towards abdication and Charles will be passed over because of all the scandals and he will basically pass over the throne for his son William in order to avoid whatever.
	Alright, well that's what I call real prediction.
	Now if I might ask, I mean you don't have to answer, but I wonder how this came to you.
	Actually, I get a lot of predictions a lot of the time.
	In 2005, I called and predicted about the Pope dying, and I was within two weeks of that.
	So, I actually get a lot of predictions a lot, and I even got a little book about it.
	All right, buddy.
	It's down.
	It's number three, and it is now part of the list.
	As you can see this year, I'm going to be a little tough.
	Predictions, not wishes, not political speeches, but real, thought-out predictions, if you would please.
	And you can help bring our overall score up.
	It's not too late for that.
	And the way you can do that is, you know, just sort of quiet your mind a little bit, think about what's happened in 2008, and then project forward and come up with something that, well, that you come up with in that manner.
	That I guess we could call precognition, or close to it.
	And if we hold ourselves to that, instead of sort of trying to make a political statement or a wish or a little humor or something like that, we're going to have a pretty good record because if you look at the first 14, and by the way there was a helicopter into a building I think up in Michigan, Grand Rapids as a matter of fact, so I will turn that, I'll turn that into a ding.
	Where is it?
	At any rate, I'll turn that into a ding.
	And if I've screwed something up, here it is.
	Feel free to go to the past blast and, you know, give me what for and I'll change it.
	Let's go to a wild card line.
	Hello, you're on the air.
	Hello, good evening, Art.
	Yes, yes sir.
	Hi, my name is Ricardo from San Francisco.
	We've spoken many times when Ramona had left us and talked about your back many times, so I hope you're feeling good, your back as well.
	My back is going to eternally be a problem for me.
	That's just the way it is and I go through cycles with it.
	Sometimes it's out and I'm out of service for a little while.
	That's just the way it is.
	But you're going, ticking along.
	I'm still ticking.
	Great.
	And condolences for your mom, by the way.
	Thank you.
	From the heart.
	These end-of-the-year things and beginning-of-the-year things have started to get really bad for me, and I've been losing people at this time of the year.
	I don't like it.
	I'm sorry.
	I concur with you with my condolence from the heart.
	Anyway, you have a prediction.
	Oh, yes.
	I'm calling about a representative of Congress who will be Put under hypnotized by either Bud Hopkins or David Jacobs or someone else who will take the opportunity to find out if he had missing time.
	Really?
	And that person will be Dennis Kucinich, Congressman of Ohio, Cleveland 10th District.
	Considering he was in Shirley MacLaine's book, page 143, 144, during the time where he said he had seen a UFO over his house, Which is a triangle that Washington over at Shirley MacLaine's house during vacation, and I'm sure you heard the whole story, but this is what I predict that he will be fined out to have had the missing time concept because he said he was actually on a deck and a porch where he was telepathically spoken to and got messages.
	And this is a man who is very astute in congressional circles and Very well versed in impeachment and everything else that was going on in this process during the last year with John Conyers and so forth and then some.
	But in regard to this, I mean that I think this will come to pass and I mean it because it has to because we have to reveal and bring this out to the public and greater opportunity.
	And that is not a wish.
	It is a command from the source.
	What do you think will be revealed, since you seem to know so much about this, when he goes under and tells us all?
	He will be revealing what is the essence of what most people have said over time about our progenitors and about The format for our planet beyond what they say is the regular ruminations of peace and brotherly love and so forth.
	Things will come out because he was chosen as a particular figure in our time and space, who is that high in the circuit of Congress and government, world government, the United States and so forth.
	Considering we're still the top food chain state on this planet.
	So there are progenitors, that's what you're saying, right?
	Oh yeah, that we will find out more from him than most other people and then the rest... How's this going to work out with all this stuff from the Bible, you know, about Jesus?
	Oh, it doesn't matter because they don't have Bibles on other worlds.
	They only need...
	Planet Earth to be spoken for at this point so we can stop our madness and the man who revealed that, for instance, that we will have a nuclear device go off next year.
	Oh, yes.
	And so forth.
	It's just a matter of time.
	But in this regard, it is most preeminent that this come to pass because we need the help of all to speak forward.
	All right.
	Got it.
	Number four.
	You know they don't have Bibles in their worlds.
	Can't say that one for sure.
	They might.
	Wouldn't that be a surprise?
	You know, if they did land.
	Came down the plank, carrying a Bible.
	That'd surprise a lot of people.
	Okay, first time caller line, you are on the air and hopefully will make a good prediction for us.
	Hey, my name's Eric.
	I'm in LA.
	How are you doing?
	I'm doing okay, Eric.
	You are a first-time caller, right?
	Yes, yes I am.
	Long-time listener.
	I want to make a prediction that there will be a major earthquake in West Coast City.
	Not sure if it's clear for Seattle yet, but I think it's overdue.
	Okay, so some West Coast City.
	It might be Seattle, but you're not sure?
	I can't say.
	I don't know.
	I just had a weird feeling lately.
	You're right.
	You know, we are overdue.
	Last time I had that weird feeling was 94.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, um, and you said you're calling from LA, right?
	Yes.
	You guys are really overdue for the really big one, right?
	I haven't heard that since I was a kid.
	Right.
	And we've also been hearing a lot of things like one of these days, Wall Street's going to melt down.
	We've been hearing that since we were kids too.
	And look what happened.
	Exactly.
	All right, thank you very much for the call, and take care.
	Your prediction is number five, there's going to be a major earthquake, and I hope I don't have to ding that one, in a West Coast city.
	Possibly, he said Seattle, but we'll accept any city, I guess, in the West.
	I'm not so sure I'd be really comfortable living on the West Coast, because we really are overdue.
	It's been a while, hasn't it?
	Okay, let's go to, you know, I'm not really sure if this is it, but I think it's the international line.
	You're on the air, hi.
	Hello, Art?
	Yes.
	It's Angela calling from Paris, British Columbia.
	Okay.
	And I have a prediction for you, that United States and Canada in 2009 will be increasingly more communist, and the legislation of petty laws Well now, wait a minute, wait a minute.
	Canada, as it is now, is, well, compared to the way we used to be, socialist.
	Not communist, but certainly I think you could suggest more socialist, right?
	Yes.
	Well, it's more that the Liberals here are connected to the Catholic Church, and the Catholics' black communism and red communism are supposed to be different.
	The Catholic Church is black communist, while the communists are red communist.
	Well... That's how it's rationalized.
	Well, okay.
	And why do you think the U.S.
	will... Well, I don't even know why I'm asking that.
	We're already moving toward... See, I can't deal with the communist thing, but socialism... We're clearly moving toward being a more socialist country.
	I've often thought that it's not just a prediction that I've thought of just now, but it's a prediction that I've had in mind for several years.
	That Communists and the Capitalists will shift, will shift around.
	That Communism in the East will be more Capitalist and in North America it'll be more Communist.
	All right.
	I appreciate your prediction, I guess.
	I would have said Socialist, but number six it shall be.
	Communism is going a little far, but I mean, gosh, with what they've been doing.
	And listen, I'm not against what they've done.
	I think that if they had not come up with these big bailouts, the big 750 billion, 850, whatever it is, That there would have been a financial collapse, the whole thing would have gone down.
	So it's hard to be against it because so far what they have done has proven to be holding it up.
	Now whether they are simply delaying the inevitable or they actually have prevented what occurred in the Great Depression, you know, that's a history that is really yet to be written and I don't think we're going to know until well past the end of 2009.
	And by the way, I really do want some financial predictions for 2009.
	Anybody willing to stick their neck out, don't be afraid to make a financial prediction about what will happen with the markets, the credit markets, the banks, and so forth and so on.
	You know, all those things are going to be so important to us.
	West of the Rockies, you are on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hello.
	I predict that I in Palmdale saw some rings at a facility and I predict maybe they are for teleportation or something.
	No, no, no.
	And also I wanted to say.
	No, no, no.
	Slow up.
	You're going to clear that up.
	You saw some rings in Palmdale.
	I got pictures of it too.
	What kind of rings?
	They're roughly a hundred, 300 feet.
	of across. I they were I went I got it behind this fence.
	They were about a half mile away. So I predict there about 300 ft across. It
	could be for teleportation. It's really funny. They chased me away.
	The rings chased you away?
	No, the people there on a truck.
	The guardians of the rings?
	Yes, but I was there the other day and they didn't bother me at all.
	And the rings were there, so... Maybe you looked a little less threatening or something.
	And I want to say my Filipina girlfriend died in September 12, 2004.
	Very sorry.
	2004 very sorry I in a boy you'll can late day
	I'm very very sorry to hear that And I don't know what to put down for your predictions.
	I really don't.
	That's not exactly a prediction.
	That's sort of a report that you gave us.
	Again, I'm going to be kind of tough this year, folks.
	I want specific predictions and I kind of get a sense that some of these are not that.
	I don't know, I want to talk on the radio and say something about rings that I saw.
	Or, you know, like that.
	So please keep it to predictions.
	Things that have come to you hopefully in some sort of psychic manner.
	Some sort of ability of yours.
	Just quiet your mind and try and come up with something that really is a prediction that That you think is going to occur in 2009, not sort of a gentle reference to rings and your adventure with them.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hi, Art.
	Hi.
	Hi, it's Rick in Arkansas.
	I called you last year.
	I was number 10.
	Number 10?
	Oh my God, you're the one who said the economy falls apart, but you also said elections delayed.
	Yeah, I thought that it would fall apart and it would push back the election.
	There was some talk about some of the congressmen were threatened with martial law.
	Did you hear about that?
	Well, there's always talk.
	If they didn't pass the bill out.
	Every single time that we have a national election, there's talk of, you know, that President Bush will not allow the election.
	He will declare martial law.
	He will hold on to power.
	You know, we get that every cycle.
	Right, well I think it might just be because of it floundering and maybe going into a depression, people started panicking.
	Sure as hell though, the economy.
	So you got that part right.
	I mean it really fell apart.
	The 2009 is, I believe it's going to flounder and there will be martial law declared in some cities.
	I mean you can put down that there will be a depression or the economy will flounder.
	I am.
	Okay, and you believe that, and I don't necessarily agree with you, if we have a real depression, you know, if we were to have the soup lines or anything even approaching them in a lot, you know, if unemployment went to 25% or more, which is what it was in the Great Depression.
	I think the American people would not handle it well at all.
	I think that there would be a Mad Max scenario, kind of.
	I think there would be a lot of violence and it would be awful.
	Yeah, I believe that, especially in the biggest cities, that if it does flounder, it depends on how good Barack Obama can bring us around.
	There's still a chance.
	Listen, I'm curious, on what did you base your prediction last year?
	In other words, my God, the economy was just ripping along at 13,000 in the Dow and so forth and so on.
	What did you base that on?
	Well, they started, what really got me is they started with talking about the housing starting to fall out in December.
	And you could see, you know, everything coming around, you could see that we were in a big bubble.
	We'd hit 14,000.
	And everything was just over the top.
	People were accredited out.
	Everybody was overspending.
	It was just writing on the wall.
	And I believe we're in the end time, so we've got to falter before the end will come.
	You can talk about this afterwards, but I want to know what you think about the sun, because the conditions and the sun's been pretty much dead since the summer of 06.
	Okay, I will indeed discuss that and I have your prediction down.
	It will be number seven, okay?
	Alright, thank you very much.
	What do I think about the sun?
	God!
	Here's a headline for you.
	Sun power hits new low.
	May endanger Earth.
	This is serious stuff.
	We've never seen anything like it.
	Those of us who have been watching the sun, and I'm not going to read the story now, I can hear the music in the background, but those of us who watch the sun have never, ever seen anything like what we're seeing right now.
	It's astounding!
	There have been no, virtually no, sunspots.
	No new sunspots.
	It's been dead for months and months and months and months.
	Historically, I don't think there's ever been a time like this.
	Good morning, everybody.
	The Sun was mentioned at the end of last hour, and I've got an article here that I want you to hear, because this is serious stuff.
	What it's going to lead to?
	You're going to notice as you listen to the article, if you listen closely and read between the lines, not too far at that, that they're concerned.
	Even the Sun appears headed for a recession, is the way it begins.
	By the way, this is entitled, Sun's Power Hits New Low, May Endanger Earth?
	It's September 24th, 2008, National Geographic News, and nothing has changed since that article, which makes it even wilder.
	The Ulysses Space Probe has detected fewer sunspots, decreased solar winds, and a weakening Magnetic field, the lowest solar activity observed in 50 years, according to NASA back in September.
	Now that translates into a shrinking of the heliosphere, the invisible bubble of solar wind that extends beyond Pluto and guards the planets, including ours, from bombardment by cosmic rays.
	Speaking yesterday, back in September now, at a NASA teleconference, scientists refused To draw conclusions from their observations, especially with respect to whether the changes are influencing Earth's climate.
	That area of science is in the realm of speculation at this point, said a researcher at Boston University, Nancy Crooker.
	Should be an interesting interview, surely.
	But David J. McComas of the Southwest Research Institute, who leads one of the experiments on board Ulysses, called the changes significant.
	This is a whole sun phenomenon.
	The entire sun is blowing significantly less hard than it was 10 to 15 years ago.
	He said over the entire record of sun observations, this is the longest prolonged, he calls it low pressure, that we've observed.
	Some variances in solar activity is normal for the sun, which has a 22-year magnetic cycle and an 11-year sunspot cycle, but McComas said in a statement that researchers have been surprised to find that the solar wind is much less powerful than it has been in previous solar minimums.
	Despite its name, the solar wind is actually a stream of charged particles expanding out from the sun.
	Now, it's already lasted significantly longer than predicted.
	This was back in September.
	I don't think any of us, certainly in our lifetimes, and I believe historically, have ever, ever seen a period of time, when you look at the sun and the x-ray output from the sun, you know, and solar flares, it's virtually a flat line, folks.
	It's like the patient is dead.
	Now, I don't want to get overly dramatic, and we're in between cycles, but nobody has ever seen one go this quiet for this long, and it's beginning to negatively affect the magnetic field around the Earth.
	Now, I understand these scientists wouldn't want to comment specifically on that, but if this were to continue, could it be a precursor To a polar switch.
	In other words, could we be seeing a period of time, I might as well say it, go ahead and say it, when the Sun would become so quiet, the magnetic field so, well, virtually non-existent eventually, that it's a precursor to a polar switch for the Earth.
	Not the Sun, the Earth.
	Actually, both.
	And I'll just leave it at that.
	Those who know about the sun know what I'm talking about and know what the concern here is.
	These indeed are strange times we live in, aren't they?
	More predictions for 2009 coming up next.
	All right, we're all about predictions.
	Remember, one per customer.
	Please do indeed make them predictions, not wishes or political points of view or speeches or anything like that, but predictions, hopefully from your psychic center.
	So do your very best for the year 2009 only.
	We will continue to review those made for 2008.
	And again, no predictions of assassinations, otherwise the world is your oyster.
	First, no, wildcard line, you're on the air, hello.
	Oh, hello?
	Me?
	Yes.
	Yes, you!
	Oh, wow.
	Sorry.
	I was expecting to get answered.
	No, we're not.
	During this time, we're not going to screen any calls.
	There's no point.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, this is Brian.
	I'm in the Portland, Oregon area.
	All right.
	My prediction is that we're going to have increasingly harsh winter, which is going to cause some famine, shortage
	of food in the springtime.
	I would say that a prediction of a harsh winter coinciding with little to no activity at all from our sun is probably
	a very, very good bet.
	So a harsh winter and eventually leading to food shortages?
	How do you think people will deal with it, sir, if there are food shortages?
	If you go to the grocery store and you can't get food, how are people going to deal with that?
	Oh, well, they're not going to deal with it very well.
	Not at all.
	There's going to be a lot of violence and martial law, probably, at some point.
	And you think this is all likely for 2009, eh?
	I appreciate the prediction.
	I'm sorry to hear something like that, but I sort of... You know, I don't know how things have become so bad so quickly.
	We are the United States.
	We are the strongest country in the world.
	Yes, we've been doing some things not so well of late.
	But for it to come unglued so quickly, for things to have deteriorated to the point where we were on the verge of complete economic collapse, just like that!
	I mean, so fast!
	How could it come unglued so fast?
	So, a year ago I would have chuckled at a I had a prediction of that kind, you know, that the economy would have unwound and banks would be going belly up and that sort of thing.
	I'd have said, no, no, no.
	Not that quickly, it could happen, but not that fast.
	And yet, it did.
	So, I don't chuckle at the kind of prediction that man just made.
	A harsh winter, food shortages, violence, that sort of thing.
	Yeah, it could happen.
	First time caller line, you are on the air.
	Hello, Jason from Fallon, Nevada.
	Hi, Jason.
	Hello, been listening to you for 16 years.
	My prediction is a nuclear device will go off at the Saudi oil fields.
	Oh my God.
	In 2009?
	Yes.
	in 2009. Yes. How did this come to you?
	I've just been thinking about it.
	I always had a feeling that the device will be going off down there, but didn't know where.
	And I really feel like it's going to be hitting Saudi Arabia to make the oil prices go back up.
	Oh, they'd go back up.
	Hell yeah, flying.
	Definitely go back up, all right.
	That might be the end of all.
	I mean, the only thing that it seems, no matter what the government has done with their stimulation of this and that, and their bailout of this and that, The fact that oil prices have just gone right back down again is the biggest stimulation of all.
	So if what you just predicted should occur, it really would be more or less the end, I think.
	And it might not even have to be a nuke.
	It could just be, you know, a series of very serious terrorism in the fields there.
	And that might be all it would take.
	That would be awful, sir.
	Awful.
	I appreciate your call.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	That's just an awful possibility, but I'm going to certainly put it down, because again, you know, I wasn't in the business of, even though I would write them down, thinking these things could happen, and yet 2008 has brought, look at what it's brought.
	It's just, it's unbelievable to me.
	We are the U.S.
	of A. How could this have happened?
	Thank you.
	Let us go east of the Rockies.
	You're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Good morning, Art.
	I have a prediction.
	Let me turn this radio down.
	Sure.
	Tell me where you're calling from.
	I'm calling from Boston.
	Boston, okay.
	I believe despite positive talk of an economic upturn, the media will still find a reason for the honeymoon of Barack Obama to be over by the end of this year, coming up.
	Well, honeymoons don't generally last much more than a year, do they?
	Not much more.
	Political honeymoons.
	However, I believe this is going to happen at least by October.
	At least by October.
	How do you think Obama's going to do?
	I think he's going to do fairly well.
	One thing I see with Obama is he's very careful.
	And all his comics concerning the current president.
	And I believe how he runs the government will be very careful.
	All right.
	So I'm going to put down Obama Honeymoon over by October.
	How's that?
	Absolutely.
	All right.
	Done deal.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much for the call.
	That's number 10.
	And to the first time caller line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Morning.
	How are you?
	I'm fairly well, sir.
	Okay.
	It is.
	Where are you and what's your first name?
	Patrick from Cleveland.
	Okay.
	I haven't spoken to you for 2009.
	First, my condolences to you and your family from your losing your mom.
	Thanks.
	Long-time listener, first-time caller.
	My prediction is that I think that there will be a great, finally Bigfoot saying that he really does exist.
	I'm sorry, who will say, oh, in other words, we're going to talk to, hear from a Bigfoot?
	No, we're going to, somebody's going to have solid proof that a Bigfoot actually does exist.
	Okay, proof?
	Whether it be living or dead, that there's going to be proof there that does exist.
	Okay.
	You've never seen one, have you?
	Actually, I have on three separate occasions.
	Most people have never seen a Bigfoot and you've seen it three times?
	On three separate occasions.
	Wow.
	Throughout about a four-year period.
	Do you think this evidence will be dead or alive?
	I think it'll be either or.
	Either or.
	And the reason I think so is because with this recent so-called hoax with these two, I wanted a freezer.
	I think it's captured interest of a lot of people, and not only is a lot of people good.
	Would you shoot a Bigfoot?
	No, I wouldn't.
	Not even to get the proof?
	No.
	I don't believe in killing anything without the, without killing anything without the use of, with a beer food source.
	That's my belief.
	I'm with you there.
	All right.
	Thank you very much.
	I also agree with you.
	I killed a squirrel when I was 12.
	I guess I was 12, maybe almost 13.
	And my dad gave me a 22.
	And we were living in Maryland at the time.
	I guess I couldn't resist and from my my room I had a you know like a little radio room up on the third floor of the house and I shot this squirrel and oh god I cried and I cried.
	It was, I suppose, kind of silly.
	I'm no Sarah Palin.
	I can't kill things.
	And I have never, since that time, other than an occasional mosquito or something of that sort, have I killed anything that lives.
	And, you know, I just, I'm like that.
	I just, I guess that really taught me a lesson.
	Killing that squirrel.
	I don't think I ever felt so awful in my life.
	It just was a lifelong lesson for me, and so I don't kill anything that lives, and even to get the evidence of Bigfoot, no way would I shoot, and obviously that caller as well.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Good morning, Art, and Happy New Year to you.
	Thank you.
	My name is Bill.
	I'm calling from Toronto.
	Hey, Bill.
	Hi.
	Last year I called in and I think my number was 61 on the prediction list.
	Well, let's have a look.
	61, huh?
	Okay, 61 would have been BlackBerry, $2 billion in sales.
	Yep, yep, that's it.
	Man, that's going to be a ding, isn't it?
	I took a fast look at their website.
	I think it's $2.7 billion in sales.
	Wow.
	And their share price was $38.77 a share.
	All right.
	You get credit.
	Credit is due.
	You hit it.
	All right, so you hit it.
	I'll ding it when it comes up.
	In the meantime, since you hit one, we're going to be very, very interested in what you're going to predict tonight.
	Yeah, this one's a bit humorous, not this dull thing like last year.
	I'm doing a prediction in 2009, coast-to-coast listeners will form an insomniacs club.
	They're already a loose confederation anyway, aren't they?
	Yeah, in this time zone, we're up till 2, 3, 4, 5 in the morning listening to you.
	I guess in other time zones as well, so I predict that coast-to-coast listeners will form an Insomniacs Club.
	All right, are you ready to begin that yourself?
	Well, we do it every night, yes.
	Well, no, I mean for real, would you actually form a group?
	No, but I'm predicting that some of your coast-to-coast listeners will.
	But there's a lot of us that stay up quite late and, you know, we become insomniacs.
	Got it.
	I have actually tried to mend my ways a little bit in terms of the hours that I keep, and I have not had a lot of luck.
	I always start out well, you know, and, for example, when I come from the Philippines, back here, then, boy, suddenly, I'm really...
	I'm getting up at 8 o'clock in the morning, it's great!
	But then I slowly, slowly slide back into the nighttime life.
	Oh, okay.
	Thank you!
	Alright, take care.
	Take care.
	Your prediction is number 12.
	And let's see if we can do a quick one west of the Rockies.
	You're on the air, hi.
	Hi Art, how are you doing?
	Very well.
	Extinguish your radio and give us your first name and tell us where you are.
	My name is Sonny and I'm from Pahrump.
	You're here in Pahrump?
	Yes, sir.
	Interrupt at the moment?
	This is the first time in all the years I've been listening to you that I got through.
	Listening to K-N-Y-E.
	Yes, I win prizes all the time.
	All right.
	Everywhere I go, people say, where are you from?
	And I tell them, they say, do you know Art Bell?
	I know, I know, I know.
	My prediction is that Art Bell will have a fabulous year in 2009 based on your knowledge,
	and knowledge for people is power.
	Also, I don't know what to write down for that.
	You're going to have to be a little more specific, I'm afraid.
	Otherwise, what am I going to write down?
	I'm going to have a great year?
	Oh, yeah.
	You're going to have a fabulous year.
	You're going to have a fabulous year.
	Because you're self-proclaimed.
	You are the man.
	I mean, people ask about you all the time.
	I'm not saying that I'm the man.
	You're saying it.
	That's not self-proclaimed.
	You're claiming it.
	I appreciate the thought and everything, but I don't know if I want to write that down.
	Come on, make a prediction about the larger world for me.
	Well, I think we will have another ditto of 208 and 209 if you ask me.
	Meaning economically or what?
	Um, everything.
	Economically, as far as the things over there and other countries, I feel that we should take care of our country first before we put our nose in someone else's country.
	I have a daughter that's in the National Guard.
	That's why I'm kind of against that.
	And I predict that that will even go further before it ends.
	All right, all right.
	You know, I don't really have a prediction out of all this, but I appreciate your call, and I appreciate the fact you're listening to KNYE Night 5.1 FM here in Pahrump, Nevada.
	Thank you, sir.
	And take care.
	That would have been number 13, but I just couldn't... Well, anyway, let's take a break.
	Be right back.
	From the high desert, I am Art Bell, and Dawn in Flushing, New York says, Art, you shouldn't be surprised at the bank fallout.
	If you remember, Evelyn Paglini predicted these things on your show.
	Remember?
	That large financial institution said she would fall.
	In 2006, she predicted the major fires of 07.
	It's time to have her on again.
	Look, Dawn, you are so right.
	You are so correct.
	Of all the people that we've had on this program, and believe me, we have had the best.
	Prognosticators.
	The best of the best, right?
	Remote viewers.
	Psychics?
	Sensitives of all sorts?
	Who claim to be the best?
	There is nobody, and I repeat, nobody, who's come anywhere near the hit record of Evelyn Paglini.
	Not even close!
	And yes, she predicted this financial mess.
	She predicted so many other things that it's a little frightening.
	When you look at her track record, if you're a longtime listener, and you actually dissect the Paglini track record, It's almost suspicious it's so good.
	We'll be right back.
	All right, let's review a few more predictions made for 2008.
	Number 15 was that there'll be a language translator, a machine which will translate language for us.
	Now, I've not heard of any great giant improvements in this area, but it's possible there have been.
	So again, if I mess these up, please feel free to correct me with a fast blast and I
	will change it.
	But bonk for now.
	16.
	Two border guards pardoned.
	And you know the border guard controversy, right?
	And the opportunity came and it didn't occur.
	They did not pardon them.
	So bonk.
	Even though they certainly ought to be.
	90 days of satellite shutdown is number 17.
	That's an easy bonk.
	Didn't happen.
	18.
	Dr. Kaku explains why the 2012 Mayan calendar ends.
	And I don't believe that he did, so that'll be a bonk.
	Number 19.
	Gitmo handed over to Cuba.
	Well, we're certainly considering what to do with Gitmo, but I believe that handing it back to Cuba is not one of those things.
	Number 20.
	The euro overtakes the dollar.
	That one... That one... I don't know what's close.
	I'm going to... I'm going to tentatively bonk that, but it's very close.
	Takes over the dollar as the main peg for the world?
	No.
	But, obviously things are changing.
	It's close.
	U.S.
	economy hits a wall mid-year?
	Oh my god, yes.
	Ding, ding, ding, ding.
	So whoever gave us number 21, again, it was just that the U.S.
	economy hits a wall mid-year.
	That's exactly when it began.
	So that's a gigantic ding, ding, ding, ding.
	You know, that's, how many is that on the economy?
	Several.
	And there are several more.
	Obviously, the audience knew something was up with the economy.
	And how could they?
	It was just roaring along so well.
	22.
	President Bush takes control.
	No election.
	Bonk.
	Didn't happen.
	Number 23.
	Major train wreck.
	I believe that would be a ding.
	I don't recall where it was offhand, but we did have one.
	24.
	Air Force One disappears and or crashes.
	Bonk.
	Didn't happen.
	Number 25, and I don't understand this.
	It's my own handwriting, my fault.
	It says, TMNM, get in trouble.
	So, I need help with that.
	25, TMNM.
	I should not abbreviate like that.
	Get in trouble.
	I have no idea what it means.
	Number 26, Zahi Awas, steps down.
	Well, bonk as far as I know.
	27, dirty nuke in Iraq.
	Thank God.
	28.
	Yellowstone goes kaboom.
	That'll be a bonk.
	29.
	Something occurs so that transit between here and South America becomes impossible.
	Bonk.
	30.
	Action against Iran.
	Well, it certainly was discussed a lot, wasn't it?
	But it's a bonk so far.
	31.
	Dollar tanks.
	The second week of March, dollar tanks, well, the dollar certainly has its problems, though, interestingly, it's remained stronger than one might imagine with the printing presses cranked up the way they are.
	Tentative bond, 32, big disease from crows.
	Hmm.
	Bonk, as far as I know.
	33.
	A bad earthquake in California, June 21st.
	Bonk.
	34.
	Not one named hurricane all year.
	Big bonk.
	There were several.
	35.
	New Orleans.
	Trouble at the NBA All-Star Game.
	Bonk.
	36.
	People turned to the Catholic Church in, you know, large crowds.
	Large numbers of people turned to Catholicism.
	Bonk.
	37, the Mayan calendar ends early.
	As far as I know, that's not occurred.
	Bonk.
	And number 38, silver, goes over $20 an ounce.
	Now, I believe that it hit around $26, didn't it?
	That would be a big ding, ding, ding.
	So, number 38 is a ding.
	Again, if I, you know, if you can correct me on any of these, feel free to do so with a fast blast and I will indeed change them.
	But that was a main, that was kind of a bonk party, as it were.
	First time caller line, you are on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Ah, Art.
	So good to see you.
	Thank you.
	And I love your program.
	It's the greatest in the world.
	Thank you.
	Where are you and what is your first name?
	I'm in Los Angeles.
	My name's Steve.
	Okay, Steve.
	And my prediction for this year is that, well, Google will not become the greatest search engine, that itssmoking.com will be the greatest search engine, and that Google will be second place.
	Oh, wait a minute now.
	A new search engine, which it sounds like you're plugging?
	It's Smoking?
	Is that the name of it?
	Yes, it's Smoking.com.
	Well, you know Bart, you had that problem with smoking and this is the greatest cessation and ability to You know, have power over your habits.
	And you know, 500,000 people die every, well, two days from smoking-related diseases.
	Every two days?
	Yeah, yeah.
	There's about 500,000 people die every day, actually.
	It's not, you know, Blue Oyster Cult said 40,000, but it's actually 500,000.
	And 800,000 people are born every day.
	Are you involved in this search engine?
	Well, I tried.
	I tried this search engine and it was great.
	It was great.
	Fantastic.
	Yes.
	Are you involved in its business?
	Well... Okay, all right.
	Goodbye.
	That is an example of one that's not getting registered.
	Now, fine.
	You want to call up?
	You want to give somebody a plug?
	Fine, you got your plug in.
	I didn't erase it.
	But that's not an honest prediction.
	That's you being involved with a company wanting to plug it on the air.
	Come on!
	Don't come at me with this stuff.
	Even though you were successful and got it on the air, it's not the spirit of what we're trying to do here.
	We're trying to reach into your psychic center and get an honest prediction from you.
	Not a plug for a business, or a political wish, or a little political speech you want to give.
	Not putting it down.
	Number 13.
	Let's see if we can get it from somebody here.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi Art, hello sir, this is Keith Hanson, or sorry, Keith in Hamilton, Ontario.
	Okay, Keith.
	I made a slip there.
	Last year I told you I was at a nine straight consecutive streak being correct.
	I remember I predicted the wrestling tragedy, which you said was a big ding?
	Yes.
	Yeah, a year before I predicted an actress murdered, who was Adrienne Shelley, a year before that I predicted Race Wars.
	So, before I can go 10 for 10, my last year's prediction was number 57.
	Now let me look at it.
	Okay.
	57.
	All right.
	That would be more school shootings.
	Yes.
	Yeah, I guess there were.
	Oh yeah.
	Sorry to have to ding that one.
	Yeah, if you look at the media too, like the last half, it was mostly focused on, you know, mostly Obama.
	But I know that there's a big one in Illinois where six are shot.
	I know one in Toronto, there's three in Arizona.
	I know, it's a ding.
	You're absolutely right.
	Alright, now that you've got that right and we know some of your track record.
	I think there's a big one too in Iceland, was there not?
	20 dead or something?
	Yeah, we don't have to list them all.
	Alright, so what are you predicting for 09?
	Well, this is another bad one, Ark.
	I'm sorry.
	Hopefully, well, not hopefully, it'd be bad, I guess.
	But that would put me at 11 for 11.
	And I know this to be a fact, and the way you look around the world, I don't know how this would be measured.
	This is going to be the year of the homicide.
	Year of the homicide?
	Yes, this will be the most homicides, basically, I'm projecting most in America.
	But yeah, this would be the highest rate of homicides in America, in the U.S.
	Why do you think that will be?
	In other words, what will be the precipitating factor?
	A lot looking at the economy and a lot of the layoffs, a lot of foreclosures, a lot of homeless.
	People are just going to want what somebody else has.
	Well said, sir.
	I really, really hope you're wrong, and I really fear that you might be right.
	And to top it off, you're going to be number 13.
	Okay.
	Y'all take care.
	Thank you very much.
	I'm really worried about that.
	The year of the homicide.
	If the economy continues to tank, if we have another Great Depression, I really fear that his prediction could be spot on, as the British might say.
	I just don't think that we would take it well.
	We've had it so good so long that we just don't know what rough times really are.
	Unless you're old enough to have lived through the Great Depression.
	Boy, I hope that's wrong.
	Let's go to another wild card line.
	You're on the air.
	Hi.
	Good evening, Art.
	Good evening, sir.
	Art, this is Mark in Oregon.
	Right.
	And first, I'd like to offer my condolences, sincere condolences, to you on the loss of your mom.
	Thanks.
	I'll really miss her.
	Most welcome.
	I'm sure you will.
	I know you all were close from what you said in past shows.
	I want to wish you and yours the very best New Year, Art.
	Well, thank you.
	Despite it all.
	As rotten as 8 has been and 9 is likely to be, I'm afraid.
	It just makes us swim harder when we have to go upstream.
	We just have to try harder.
	In fact, yes.
	Well, what do you foresee for 09?
	Well, I think it's really, it's almost a non-prediction, but it's a prediction because it's still in the future, but it seems so foreordained by the economic forces and conditions which are occurring right now that there's a natural lead-in to Basically, the commercial real estate sector folding, essentially, just like the residential real estate sector has largely folded.
	But the commercial real estate sector, I believe, will fold at least as fast, and it will happen within the first quarter of 2009.
	All right.
	I've heard also that this is another shoe that's coming that's going to drop.
	The other shoe to drop, right?
	It's spoken of.
	I think it's at least implied by the economically knowledgeable people whom I've heard use that terminology that that's really the straw that breaks the camel's back, essentially.
	When you say the camel has its back broken, elucidate a little further.
	What do you think is going to happen?
	Well, if large retail outlets cannot continue to provide on the mercantile basis, that's one thing.
	But if it goes into the grocery store aspect of this, in the sense that I understand that most grocery stores somehow, through whatever change in the way things used to be done some time ago, that these days they buy their groceries on credit.
	And they do this on a regular basis.
	Uh, in the short term, so that if credit's not available to them, the system has shut down to the point, due to the collapse of the real estate sector, to the point where it affects, you know, the actual, um, ability of anything to really turn over anymore as far as the payment for goods and the delivery of goods.
	And this is just what I've heard some people say as to, somewhat in detail, as to how things could actually shut down completely.
	But I may not be as clear as they were on that.
	I didn't mean to confuse you on it.
	You're clear enough to be scaring me.
	How would you handle it personally?
	Well, Art, you know, this is actually, you had mentioned before this evening, I think several times, that this has just happened all so fast that the extent of the collapse is that it's breathtaking.
	You can hardly believe it could happen in such a short period of time.
	Right.
	And that's really due to the fact that It has been manipulated and that can well be proven if someone takes a little bit of time to research it.
	And there's much information in the mainstream economic discussion of it by people who have done a thorough amount of research.
	And no solution will be attempted to be found by those who have enough power to be in a position to actually have the influence to provide a solution because no solution is desired.
	What is desired is actually the implosion of our economy and also the world's economy to bring about that one world economy that we've heard about for so many years.
	And that's what this is all about, is a consolidation, gigantic transfer of wealth that's left out of the hands of the few who hold most of the wealth in the world for eons, essentially taking up what relatively small amount is owned by the people themselves, and it will abscond with their rights at the same time, and of course It's multifaceted and objective.
	I'm clear on all that.
	Let me ask you again, though.
	How will you personally handle this?
	How will you try and get through it?
	Personally, Art, I don't know any of us unless we take steps to secure our assets and move them out of U.S.
	dollars.
	That was the other part of my prediction, if I can have a two-part prediction.
	No, you can't.
	I mean, you can say it, but I just can't record it.
	Well, it's actually another main piece of information by those who study the trends
	and study the economy on a daily basis and for many years is that the U.S. dollar will
	become completely valueless by June of 2009, right around that time.
	Oh my God, that's horrible.
	So to turn it around, Art, it's really very easy to do.
	One would do basically just the opposite of what's been done.
	Okay, all right, I've got it and I appreciate it.
	It's number 14, okay?
	Thank you.
	Take care.
	And I fear that could be correct too.
	That is the other shoe ahead of us, one of the shoes.
	Unfortunately, there's several shoes, but the big one, there's a big one in commercial real estate.
	I understand they're already looking to TARP funds.
	I don't know how many more shoes we can take.
	Let's see.
	Let's go to a wild card line.
	You're on the air.
	Hello.
	Good evening, Art.
	This is John calling from Chicago, Illinois, epicenter of all things politically paranormal.
	I wish to predict that core inflation plus food and energy will rise between 12 and 15
	percent, precipitating federal price fixing and food shortages, massive food shortages.
	Back up, back up just a little bit.
	You're giving me a lot.
	Yeah.
	You think inflation will go up to 15 percent, you said?
	And that'll occur by about when?
	Oh, I'd say third, fourth quarter, fourth quarter, put it down.
	Wow.
	And you're basing this on the...
	Some projections that I've seen based on...
	They took the Federal Reserve still issues weekly reports on the cash that's been injected
	into the economy.
	Right, right.
	And I've seen compilations of those and projections based on that, which seem to put it...
	I mean, I'm being conservative.
	I've seen projections up to 17 and 18 percent.
	Holy mackerel.
	Yeah.
	They're talking about this quantitative easing thing.
	Yeah.
	I'm dubious of that.
	Because when you think about what happened in the 1970s, people said, all the economists before then said, you can't have inflation and a depression concurrently.
	And we did.
	And this looks like this could potentially be that on steroids.
	I hope not.
	That would be horrible.
	15% by third or fourth quarter.
	All right.
	I really, really appreciate your call.
	Your prediction is number 15 and certainly is recorded.
	Thank you.
	And take care.
	10 to 15 percent inflation by the third or fourth quarter, if that's the case.
	Oh, baby.
	It's going to be a rough year.
	And the predictions we're getting are beginning to reflect that fact.
	There's a lot of fear out there.
	The fear index is up through the roof.
	It's the nature of the beast, and by that I mean that predictions are sort of negative.
	I mean, not sort of negative, very negative.
	They always have been.
	It's just the nature of the beast on coast.
	And what is not so normal, though, is that they keep coming true, these very negative predictions, these things that Unbelievable that the United States could begin unraveling economically in such a short period of time.
	Yes, we got a lot of those predictions for 2008 and unravel indeed it did.
	We'll be right back.
	Alright, here we go again.
	Predictions this night for the year 2009.
	This is an annual event, and of course I don't allow predictions of assassinations of political leaders, that sort of thing.
	It's one prediction per customer, and again, please make them indeed predictions.
	Hopefully from your psychic center, not wishes, not political speeches, but predictions for the year 2009.
	And so here we go again, first time caller line, you are on the air, good morning.
	Hello, my name is Serge, and I predict that Mr. Obama will nationalize every electrical producing company.
	Really?
	Okay, I'll put that down.
	He will nationalize electric producing companies.
	Yeah.
	Why do you believe that?
	Because the way it is, they should do it.
	We did it in Quebec and it was favorable for us.
	It should be favorable for you.
	I see.
	So what's good for Canada should be good for America too, huh?
	Okay.
	All right.
	That is prediction number 16.
	Obama will nationalize the electric companies.
	Well, why not?
	We're nationalizing everything else.
	Essentially, that's what we're doing, you know.
	We are well into socialization of industry.
	And I don't know how, I have no idea how some people who have preached what they've preached are rationalizing what they're doing right now.
	That's not to say it's not needed.
	And it's not the right way to say this, but I don't know how they're rationalizing it.
	I really don't.
	I guess they're just cringing and doing it, huh?
	I don't know.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hey, Art.
	Hey.
	Oh, what a pleasure to speak to you.
	Long, long time listener.
	Welcome to the show.
	Glad you're on.
	What is your first name and where are you?
	I am the Max and I am calling from Little Steel City, also known as David and Pueblo.
	All right.
	Um, I do have a very serious prediction.
	Uh, September 15th of 2009, I predict that we are going to have, if not a nationwide pandemic, but a possibly global pandemic.
	Wow.
	Right.
	And, um, this doesn't come just out of thin air.
	I've been having precognitive dreams since I was about nine years old.
	And this one, Was really powerful and it came to a from a beloved family member on the other side.
	Wow.
	So I have a specific date for you.
	That's September 15th.
	You know, that's awfully specific.
	Yes, sir.
	Do you have any?
	Can you tell us anything about the nature of the pandemic?
	Anything else you know would be good.
	What I do know, and it's really frightening and it disturbs me to the core, is that it's They're going to be unleashed by our own government as a form of population control because they may already have the cure.
	You know, why do that in America?
	Our population is actually fairly well under control compared to the rest of the world.
	But not when you consider the economic crisis right now.
	Yeah, that's what makes it pretty tough.
	And one of the reasons why September 15th rings in my head over and over again is actually, pre-election, Obama was in Pueblo on September 15th of this year.
	I had this dream prior to that, and I thought that date might coincide with something, so I waited, and lo and behold, September 15th, Barack Obama is In town.
	So I thought that might have something to do with it, but that came and passed.
	Unfortunately, I didn't have a specific date when I received this dream.
	So I'm making that my prediction for 2009.
	Pretty dark stuff, but I'll put it down.
	Number 17.
	Number 17.
	Right.
	And I hope if it comes true, I'm still here to, I guess, ding it.
	Better yet, pocket, huh?
	Nationwide pandemic, huh?
	That's something I've worried about for a long time, and of course he thinks it'll be not exactly an accident.
	All right, to the international line, Methinks.
	You're on the air.
	Morning.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Hi Art.
	It's Robin from Toronto.
	Okay, Robin, extinguish thy radio and proceed.
	Yes, okay.
	Nobody said anything about any Hollywood names.
	Can I do that?
	Um, depending on the context, sure.
	Well, I just, uh, I see, like, Adam Sandler and, uh, people like that being in the headlines a lot more for 2009.
	And also there's Christian Bale, something bad there, but, um, I also see some more flooding in the South.
	Well, no, wait a minute, you're giving me a lot.
	So I can take one prediction from you.
	Which would you rather have it be?
	Okay, I will take the serious one.
	We'll stay on that note.
	I don't want to, but this is a lot more flooding for the South down there.
	Okay, flooding for the South.
	Yeah.
	Too bad.
	They really needed water, you know?
	Oh, I know.
	I know.
	It's going to get worse, but I also say, what is it, coming into Year of the Ox?
	Right.
	So, hopefully, you'll be able to just tread through it.
	The States are strong, and you'll be able to make it through.
	Okay.
	More of the same in 2008.
	Number 18, flooding for the South.
	Yeah.
	Okay, no problem.
	I love ya.
	I appreciate the call and the prediction.
	And certainly a lot of areas in the south really needed water, so I guess it's going to go the other way and they're going to get too much.
	I think it's going to be a very cold winter.
	A very, very cold winter.
	And I think that does have something to do with, despite what the scientists don't want to admit, I think it has a lot to do with the sun.
	But in case we're on a wild card line, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Yes, hi.
	I have a prediction for you tonight.
	All right.
	Where are you?
	And first name, please?
	My name is Tom, and I'm calling from Salem, Oregon.
	Okay.
	And, oh, by the way, I'm sorry about the loss of your mom.
	I just wanted to say that tonight.
	Thank you.
	My prediction is life outside of our solar system will be discovered.
	Really?
	Yes.
	Is it discovered by showing up here, or will we just sort of... I mean, how do you think that will occur?
	It will either be discovered through a NASA spacecraft that's going to be sent out in the spring, or by SETI.
	I sure would like SETI to get a signal.
	I think that would be the way to do it.
	You know, a signal that comes from many light years away, something that wouldn't panic people, but would begin to get us adjusted to the fact that we are not alone.
	Right.
	I think that'd be wonderful.
	It would be.
	That's just my thought from that.
	You think it's finally time?
	I mean, did this come, how did this come to you?
	I just have a feeling for it, that this is going to be the year that finally happens.
	And it's a spacecraft that, if it discovers it, it'll be through discovering another world out there that's very much like the Earth, and they'll get a signal from it somehow.
	Alright, so it has been recorded.
	Number 19.
	Okay, thank you very much.
	Thank you, and take care.
	Have a great night.
	Number 19.
	Life outside is discovered possibly by a SETI signal.
	That really would be something I've thought for a long time.
	That that'd be the way to go and have it be, you know, light years away and light years to answer, so it'd give us plenty of time to speculate about who it is, where they are, what they're all about, whether we ought to be happy about it, scared about it, whatever, but not panic about it.
	First time caller on the line, you're on the air, good morning.
	Hi, how are you doing?
	I'm doing okay.
	Great.
	Extinguish your radio, please.
	Uh, hang on.
	Okay.
	Uh... Very important that you turn your radio off right away, folks.
	We have a delay.
	Okay, hang on one second.
	Hanging.
	Hey, turn the radio off, please.
	Turn the radio off?
	Yeah, turn it off.
	Mm-hmm.
	Off.
	Okay, you're gonna have to get it off or I'm gonna have to leave the line.
	Okay, just turn it off.
	Thank you.
	How you doing, bud?
	I'm doing okay.
	Great.
	Who is this?
	Who were you expecting when you called?
	Art?
	Yes.
	Well, it's an honor to speak to you, Mr. Bell.
	Honor to have you.
	Do you have a prediction for me?
	Yes, I do.
	Yes, go ahead.
	I believe that the gold and the precious metals are going to be taken over by the government, seeing as how we don't have any other assets.
	So you think the government will confiscate gold?
	Yes, I believe all of these commercials on TV and everything now.
	Right.
	They're getting everybody to put their money into gold, just like before the stocks fell and everything.
	Right.
	They're going to confiscate the gold just like they did back in the 20s and 30s.
	So it would be like a knock on the door and be a government guy with a bag.
	Right.
	With gold in it.
	If you have gold in your pocket, It'll be black market.
	It'll be illegal.
	But if you have your money put into gold assets, it will just be taken for pennies for a dollar.
	I know a lot of people investing in gold mines, stuff like that.
	So that wouldn't be such a hot idea, I guess.
	All right.
	That's number 20.
	The government takes the gold back.
	And I, you know, I'm I'm not going to comment.
	I mean, there was a time when a lot of this footage just seemed outrageous.
	In light of what's happened during 2008, I'm afraid it doesn't seem that outrageous, does it?
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Good morning, Art.
	Um, I predicted last year about the moon getting closer to the Earth or being more noticeably bigger.
	Do you remember what number that was?
	No, I don't.
	But the scientists have said that the moon is, for the last, more than the last 15 years, it is bigger and brighter.
	And that's my prediction.
	Oh, here it is, right.
	It's number 55.
	And it was moon drifts closer to Earth.
	Or at least they'll notice it being closer.
	They'll notice it bigger and brighter.
	And my prediction for 09 is that it'll continue to do so.
	But, no, hold on.
	When I get down to number 55, I would have to, you know, bonk it.
	I mean, there's no evidence that the Moon has come any closer to Earth so far.
	Well, the scientists, it was on the news not too long ago, the scientists said that the Moon is bigger and brighter, but you can bonk it, but the scientists have said that it's getting bigger, or brighter.
	Who said that?
	I don't know what scientists saw, it was just on the news not too long back, that for the last 15 years it's been brighter than it has been for the last 15 years.
	So you want to make a prediction that the moon will get brighter?
	Yeah, it'll continue to get brighter.
	And bigger.
	Alright.
	Do you think that eventually it's going to No, have you ever gone swimming in a river near pylons?
	You know, the thing that holds up the bridge?
	Sure.
	And how it sucks you down and then you go past and you come back up?
	Yeah.
	That's basically what's going to happen with the moon.
	So it's going to get sucked down.
	Sucked down from the gravity change.
	I believe where our star is coming close to it's another star and it's like ducks lined, magnetic ducks lined up in a bathtub.
	They, you know, they turn to each other and you know, that's kind of the thing.
	So it'll come closer to Earth, be brighter, and then go back?
	Yeah.
	All right.
	All right.
	Why not?
	I'll put it down, number 21.
	Unlikely as it may be, the moon will get brighter.
	And that will occur because, according to that caller, it's going to be closer.
	I'll put it down.
	Okay.
	First-time caller line, you're on the air.
	Yeah, trying to get a hold of Art Bell.
	That would be me.
	Hey, fella, how you doing?
	I got a prediction for you for 2009.
	All right.
	That's why we're here.
	OK.
	At the new moon in September 09, during the Rosh Hashanah festival, probably about the 18th through the 20th, I predict there will be a great trinity of happenings consisting of the rapture of the Christian saints, Living and dead, and the second part is the nuclear exchanges on a grand scale, and number three, what many people will call first contact, where UFOs and beings, angelic and demonic, will begin to engulf the world.
	Now, will the first contact thing be with the ones who are left behind after the rapture, or would it be before the rapture?
	It will be during.
	It will be those that are deemed ready to go at the beginning of this moment.
	And also those that are dead in the ground, that were considered saints, that they will meet their souls in the sky.
	And at the same time, we're going to have nuclear conflict on the Earth, and then there are going to be UFO contact, and it's going to be all over the place.
	That's going to be quite a September, huh?
	I think so.
	Hey, September to remember.
	Alright, well thank you very much for the call.
	Rapture, first contact, UFOs all over the place, and of course the dead rising.
	You know, I always worried with respect to the Rapture that I would wake up one day and all the good people would be gone.
	There I'd be.
	Me and a few others.
	I don't know.
	Anyway, your prediction, sir, number 22 on the, let's see, I guess that's a wild card line.
	You're on the air.
	Oh, hello, Lars.
	Happy holidays, Joe and Corpus.
	Well, hey.
	I hope nobody beat me to it.
	I was away from the radio for a second, but my prediction is Chrysler and GM will merge by October.
	Really?
	There was a rumor that the Chrysler and GM financial arms were going to merge, but that the talks for the, you know, the bigger part were off.
	Yeah, well I think they're going to, the financial and the automation, I think they're all going to put the whole kit and crew together.
	Okay, and you think that'll happen, I'm sorry, by when?
	I figure October.
	October, okay.
	All right.
	And you think that would be enough to, um, you know, save them essentially, uh, making them viable?
	I think in the long run, we're all going to be okay.
	Things are going to change, but everything's going to be okay.
	Everybody just needs to get off the ledge.
	Okay.
	Well, of course people are scared and they're, you know, you know, pulling in their horns or not spending any money.
	And they're actually, for the first time, I guess, saving is what I've heard.
	You gave the answer to all the problems that we're facing nowadays.
	I did?
	Yes.
	What did I say?
	Your words were, this is the United States of America.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Okay, thank you very much for the call.
	Well, I wish it were the answer, you know, just that we are the U.S.
	of A, and we are.
	Never in a million years would I have expected that what has occurred could occur.
	That the United States could be unraveled as quickly as it has with a fear that the entire financial system could go up in smoke.
	Right in front of our eyes.
	That banks could close, major banks and institutions that we thought were rock-solid could disintegrate in days.
	Literally in days.
	That large corporations, and there are predictions that a lot of retailers, a lot of big corporations that I know but will not speak the names, over the next few months are going to just go away.
	Things that were as rock solid as, I don't know, mom and apple pie in the U.S.
	of A. And it all is sort of crumbling in front of our eyes.
	How in the world could it happen that quickly?
	I'm Art Bell.
	Alright, I'm getting inundated with this moon thing.
	Robert says it's true art, the atmospheric effect that makes the moon appear bigger, appear bigger, or was it its peak?
	Quite recently, it was on the news, so I'm tempted to give this a ding, ding, ding.
	So even if it wasn't technically closer to Earth, it appeared brighter, and that's what he said for his prediction in 09, that it's going to appear brighter.
	Not exactly sure what to do about this.
	I have many, many, many fast blasts on this subject, so I'll kind of watch it and we'll see what happens.
	It's prediction number 55.
	Moon drifts closer to Earth.
	That's technically, of course, going to be a bonk.
	It's in its orbit and, you know, at times it is closer, at times not.
	But it might appear brighter, so perhaps the next one will be a ding.
	All right.
	Don't wait just one moment.
	I can't do that yet.
	Let's take a quick break and more predictions directly ahead.
	All right.
	Alright, here we go.
	Once again, I'm trying to get in as many as we can.
	Predictions, this night for 2009, we will continue to review 2008 predictions as well.
	A little early to tell yet whether it was a A good year or not.
	Some of it was very good, particularly about the economy.
	You could tell the number of economic predictions that hit for last year was astounding.
	A little scary.
	Saying to me that even though the audience had a lot of misses, the economic ones were right on the money and there were so many of them that it's kind of like people, I don't know, they felt something evil a-coming.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Good morning, Art.
	My prediction comes from the bottom of my gut, kind of like the instinct, kind of an animal thing, and what I'm seeing is a cocker spaniel in the White House as first dog.
	Really?
	Yep.
	I'm afraid so.
	I know they're a little yelpy, but hey, you know, I think the young ladies fell in love with it.
	That's first dog.
	First dog.
	Has this already, this news has not broken yet, right?
	Nope, nope, has not.
	And I'm not, I don't have an exact date on it, so you have to keep it hush-hush because we don't want it influencing their choice.
	I won't tell a soul.
	Okay, great.
	It will be number, alright you bet, number 24.
	Your mouth, my ear.
	Number 24, Cocker Spaniel.
	First dog.
	The first fairly light prediction we've had.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	No, huh?
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Top of the morning.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Yes, hello.
	Hello.
	Hello again.
	Hold on, I can't hear you.
	Okay, well, holding on I can't do.
	International Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Good morning, Art.
	I have a prediction for you.
	Okay.
	The poor people living in the Pacific Northwest, all their forests are just going to die.
	Why?
	It's not going to be because of global warming.
	It's not going to be a fire or a bug infestation.
	One day in just over one week period, All the forests will die.
	Not a lot, but a vast majority of them.
	In this next year, huh?
	Within the next year.
	I predict sometime in September, October.
	Right after the leaves' foliage fall off, that's the end.
	They're not going to come back.
	Can you tell us why?
	I really can't tell.
	I can't tell you.
	Is this a, you know, like a vision?
	It's a vision.
	A vision.
	Okay.
	Do you have much of a track record with previous visions?
	80% to 70% success rate.
	That's awfully good.
	All right.
	The Pacific Northwest forests die.
	Thanks, Art.
	Talk to you next year.
	Very welcome, and thank you for the cheery little prediction.
	Great.
	The Associated Press, looking at what they've had to say about the year 2008, always do the top 10 stories.
	Number 10 would be the Russia-Georgia war.
	Number 9, Hillary Clinton.
	The AP says she didn't win, but Clinton came closer than any other woman in U.S.
	history to becoming a major party's presidential nominee, true enough.
	Number 8, the Mumbai terrorism.
	Number seven, Sarah Palin.
	Few Americans outside Alaska knew much about the governor when, well then they sure do now, right?
	So she was story number seven.
	Number six, the Chinese earthquake.
	It killed 70,000 people in Sichuan province in May.
	Number five, the Beijing Olympics.
	Wow, number five, huh?
	Number four would be Iraq.
	The much-debated surge of U.S.
	troops that helped reduce violence.
	That would be the number four story.
	Number three, oil prices.
	The price of crude soared as high as $150 a barrel in July, crashed to $33 this month.
	Number two, the economic meltdown.
	The bad news just kept coming.
	And number one, Says the Associated Press, the election of Obama.
	So, there you have the top ten from the Associated Press.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Yes sir, Arbel.
	Yes indeed.
	Yes sir, thank you for years of enlightenment.
	I have a very good prediction for you.
	Okay.
	By the end of March, the unions will fall.
	By April 13th, the stock market will be over 16,000.
	Wait a minute, that's a double prediction.
	I apologize.
	End of March, unions fall.
	Yes, sir.
	Okay, I take it you mean the United Auto Workers?
	Uh, pretty much every major union.
	Yeah.
	Because of the economy, the way that it's going, and once they cease to exist, the stock market will go up.
	Well, the money, the The car companies have received is generally thought to be good until about March.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	Okay.
	Yeah, and then after that, they're either going to get more money because they're showing they can be viable or with that money that they get in March or in that area around March, they would have to show, you know, to show viability, they might have to show the end of, you know, union contracts, for example.
	Right.
	Well, I did hear the thing on the news where they were talking about building electric cars.
	I just can't see how they can build an electric car because your electric bill will be flexed as much as your gas bill.
	Let's put gas in the car.
	I just don't see any logic behind it.
	But anyhow.
	All right, sir.
	Thank you very much.
	I appreciate the call, and we'll put it down.
	End of March.
	Unions fall.
	I've wondered about electric cars myself.
	There is one scenario where it would all work, but that would require Americans sort of relaxing their point of view on nuclear reactors.
	If we would get back into the nuclear reactor business in America, and we do make them relatively safely, Then electric cars would be an option for energy going well into the future because we'd be able to produce electricity without the use of fossil fuels.
	Of course, we'd need to solve the, you know, the fuel problem, the fuel storage problem.
	That's a big one.
	But if they can recycle it in France, we can do it here.
	It's one thing the French do that we don't.
	Let's go to the first time caller line.
	You're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Morning.
	Yes, sir.
	Mr Bell?
	Yes.
	I have a prediction that the major sports in the United States are going to collapse over the next year.
	Well, there have been a few layoffs in the NFL, but that aside, I mean, sports have been okay so far.
	Why do you think they'll go up in smoke?
	Well, I think that sports realize On three main things, on fan attendance, on merchandising, and on corporate sponsors.
	I think with the trouble the economy's in, fans aren't going to have the money to attend and they're not going to have money to spend on merchandise and with So many corporations collapsing that they're not going to have the money to sponsor the team.
	Combined with the outrageous salaries that most players draw, I don't think that sports teams as we know them are going to continue to exist.
	Alright, I'll accept that.
	27 is the number of your prediction.
	Major sports collapsed in 2009.
	Now, if the economic news is really bad, going into about mid-year or so, one could imagine, I suppose, that with the price of tickets as they are for major, for example, NFL games, major baseball games and so forth, That there could be real trouble.
	More than just a few layoffs.
	So we'll look at that.
	We'll see what happens as the year proceeds.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hello, Mr. Bell.
	Hi.
	Hi, how are you doing?
	Just fine.
	First name and where are you?
	I'm Ed from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
	Okay.
	And I'd like to make a prediction.
	That's what we're here for.
	I have a gut feeling that Russia is going to do something to flex their military might.
	How serious?
	I don't know.
	Just with the whole Georgia thing and now with the talks in Venezuela and everything down there, I don't know how serious it's going to be.
	I just have a feeling that they're just going to do it to show us that they're strong again.
	Well, one thing is clear.
	One thing really is clear, and that is when economic times really get tough, inevitably there's, you know, some major military happening somewhere.
	You know, if not in a regional, on a regional basis, then worldwide.
	I mean, it almost inevitably follows really difficult economic times.
	Yes, I would agree with that.
	I mean, so many wars are fought over Like oil and money and Germany just trying to expand in World War II and everything.
	I'm afraid that it could happen again.
	All right.
	Well, it'll be number 28 and it's a good prediction.
	Not a positive one, but a good one, I'm afraid.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Have a good New Year.
	Right.
	You too.
	We all say as we keep getting these negative predictions.
	It's very nature of them, though, that they're negative.
	I'm afraid he could be right about that.
	Russia has been kind of flexing their military might anyway.
	They certainly had some warships down off the Cuban shores recently.
	And as I mentioned, if you look at the world history, or at world history, inevitably it is true that as difficult economic times descend on the world, generally it's followed by military strife and war.
	Let's go to the International Line.
	You're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hi, is this Eric?
	Yes, it is.
	Hey, how you doing?
	Anyway, I'd like to give you some... I've been listening to you since May of 2001, just before you had the back problems and just before CHML out of Hamilton dropped your show.
	Did they now?
	Yeah, and I don't think it's quite... Oh, I remember that.
	I remember, yes.
	Yeah, you had the back problems, right?
	Right.
	Yeah, okay.
	And you sound different than on the radio, but I guess it must be you.
	Everybody says that.
	Okay, yeah.
	Anyway, there's a new station, Talk 820, that's covering your show now on Hamilton.
	I'd like to let everybody know there.
	Well, there you go.
	Okay, I wanted to mention about a good prediction here.
	I found out that predictions kind of go, they can go either bad or good, like there's two halves to the prediction.
	Well, we get mostly as bad and worse.
	Yeah, well this I think is going to be good.
	I predicted back on George's show on June 18th that things were going to get so bad that your show would have no choice but to do power of intention experiments.
	Yes.
	And I think that Like I say, things are going to look bad, but the power brokers that are trying to mess up things for everybody, whether that's organized crime or the Bilderbergers or whoever's got the control right now, I don't know.
	But they've been trying to make things really bad for us and they keep failing, I think, because there's too many people that are good and know what's going on and are doing things behind the scenes.
	Let me stop you.
	This has never made sense for me, and I'll tell you why.
	If there's some power brokers Behind all of this, you know, sort of playing us all like marionettes dancing at the end of strings, it wouldn't make sense for them to make things bad because they don't make money when that happens.
	It's about control.
	George always asks why are they, you know, doing these things.
	It's because they're afraid of losing control.
	And more and more people are becoming enlightened and they're starting to gain control.
	And when we realize how these power of intention works, we'll be able to, you know, throw them out of power.
	And that's what they're afraid of losing.
	And I believe that you'll get people like Evelyn Paglini, who will come in and she'll do her bind down the dark forces art.
	That's what you have to do to prevent the negative consequences.
	So my prediction is that your show will start to make the move for doing the intention experiments, because things are going to look bad.
	You'll get probably a lot of Geographic type of problems like volcanoes and all kinds of stuff that are going to look bad, but they won't completely be bad.
	It's kind of like the movie The Ten Commandments where things happen where Ramsey finally says, all right, fine, you can go kind of thing.
	Right.
	And here's the one thing that I don't want to go on a limb to predict this, but I believe that with the Bible phrase, with the power, if you had the faith of mustard seed, You can move mountains into the sea.
	I believe Nibiru will come along.
	It'll be the size of a mountain.
	And the scientists won't be able to do anything to stop it.
	And they'll find that mustard seeds increases the power of mind power.
	And we'll be able to move this Nibiru into the sea when it was going to strike the planet.
	That's way out there, so I won't put it on record.
	Right.
	I'm putting down Intention Experiment Returns.
	All right?
	All right.
	Thank you very much for the call, and take care.
	And that would be number 29.
	A wild card line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hey Art, it's Greg from LA.
	I'm one of your regular dingers.
	Hey Greg.
	I wanted to get some redemption from you from about four years ago, because you did your show about December 23rd to take predictions for the following year.
	And my prediction at that time was about an actor of some sort or celebrity being involved with a tree accident.
	And when you read your predictions for that year, nothing happened that following year.
	However, a week after I gave you that prediction, was that Indonesian hurricane.
	And that supermodel was stuck in a tree.
	If there's something in Indonesia, it would be not a hurricane, but a typhoon.
	The typhoon, yeah, whatever took place that year.
	So it took place the week before the year because you did your show a little earlier that year.
	But then there was an actress in a tree?
	Yeah, it was that supermodel.
	A supermodel.
	And it was lost in the, lost in the flood.
	I remember something about that, yeah.
	Yeah, because she couldn't remember anything happening that year, but it did happen a week after I gave you the prediction.
	So, and that was still technically before the year.
	Okay, it's vague, but I guess it's redemption.
	Thank you so much.
	So this year, or coming up year, I see a high-profile person involved with a tire accident where a tire might blow on an airplane or car or something where people say, oh, just like that guy's accident or whatever.
	Yeah, whether the tire doesn't come down like it should or...
	You ever seen that commercial?
	I think it's so cool.
	It's like where a big giant airliner lands, right?
	Sure.
	And you know, the tire hits the tarmac and that's where they stop it, right?
	And the pilot gets out of the plane and he walks around to the tire.
	He says, when I land this big baby, I want to have one of these.
	You've seen that, right?
	I don't know.
	Did it ran in the West Coast or not?
	You haven't seen that?
	Doesn't sound familiar.
	Then he gets back on the plane and keeps landing.
	Whoever this is going to involve, it'll be high profile instead of like some actress or actor that was like a boyfriend to somebody else on another show or something like that.
	Could be a politician, could be a high profile actor.
	Okay, I'll put it down.
	High profile person, entire accident.
	All right, number 30.
	Thank you very much for the call and the prediction.
	You have a very good New Year, and I suppose there could be a version of that commercial where it gets out of the plane, goes around to kick the tire, claim how great it is, takes a look, but the plane keeps going and then cracks up.
	We'll be back.
	Reviewing some additional 2008 predictions that were made.
	Number 39, Mike Huckabee, our next president.
	Number 40 California will have low fire damage and there was normally it's the other way around right that's a bonk they had quite a bit of terrible fire damage number 41 Mount Etna explodes thank goodness that's a bonk number 42 the US boycotts The 08 Olympics, well that certainly didn't happen.
	Bonk.
	Number 43, Congress limits a Bill of Rights and enacts a Sunday Law.
	Well, they've not done either.
	So, bonk.
	Number 44, Marginal Law and Bush stays in office.
	Boy, they make that one every cycle.
	Bonk.
	Number 45, the dollar drops.
	Well, hmm.
	The dollar indeed dropped and is in the process of dropping.
	But actually, during the financial crisis, oddly, the dollar gained strength.
	Now, ultimately, that may change with, you know, the wild printing that's going on.
	So the dollar did drop, but then it regained strength on the crisis.
	So I'm not sure.
	You know what?
	I'm going to give that a ding.
	It did drop.
	So there you are.
	46.
	Last prediction show because of the economy.
	Wrong.
	It could have been correct if it had been very much worse than it is right now.
	Last prediction show because of the economy.
	In other words, The economy will become so bad in 08, how could they have predicted this?
	That it would be the last prediction show I would do.
	Close, though.
	Number 47, Mideast Peace.
	I don't mean to laugh, but obviously that's a gigantic bonk with what's going on right now.
	48, draft reinstated, meaning the U.S.
	draft, bonk.
	Number 49, another host takes over the show, coast-to-coast, no, bonk.
	Pretty much the same, George is still there.
	And I believe a number of the other hosts are as well, so everything is pretty much the same.
	50, California runs out of money, holy smokes!
	Ding, ding, ding, ding.
	California running out of money.
	How could they have come up with that one when they did?
	But they did.
	Big one.
	51.
	Gore jumps in at the last moment.
	I actually thought that.
	And it's a big bonk.
	So there you are.
	That's how psychic I am.
	Cubs make World Series.
	You know, I didn't even pay attention to the World Series.
	My God.
	Did the Cubs make it?
	I'll hold that open.
	Someone let me know.
	I'm sorry.
	I don't follow baseball.
	Mass homicide near Charleston, South Carolina.
	I think that's a bonk, but I'll leave it there.
	Fifty-four of the U.S.
	and Canada combined currencies.
	Not yet.
	Bonk.
	55.
	The moon drifts closer to the earth.
	Bonk.
	But, yes, it does appear brighter.
	56.
	Little Asia has a little brother or sister.
	Bonk.
	57.
	More high school shootings.
	Sorry to say, that's a ding.
	Ding, ding, ding.
	Several dings, I'm afraid.
	Wildcard Line, you are on the air.
	Good morning.
	All right, Mr. Bell, nice to talk to you.
	And good to talk to you as well, sir.
	Hi, I am Sam from Calabasas.
	And I'll tell you, let me tell you something really quick.
	If you call on a cell phone on the wildcard line, your phone will time out within four minutes of ringing.
	So I know.
	This is the fourth time and I got it and I'm so happy to talk to you.
	I know, that is the way it works.
	When I'm doing unscreened calls, we just let them ring.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's good and bad.
	On the one hand, it rings and rings, but on the other hand, you're not getting charged for sitting on hold.
	That's correct.
	It's cool.
	It's awesome.
	My fantasy prediction would be to have you on the air at least once a month for 09, but we won't go there.
	But, but what I do, what I do feel, what I do feel, I've had dreams, it's crazy and weird, but California is going to shake in 09, and I feel the epicenter is going to be around OC, Orange County area.
	So we, we are going to shake, we are going to shake, and you're going to be, well, you might even feel a little bit of it.
	Oh yeah, if there's something, you know, in the LA area, out in the desert, we certainly could get hit here, no question about that.
	Absolutely.
	It's wonderful to talk to you, Art.
	I don't know what to tell you, buddy.
	It's great.
	And I hope you continue to have your appearances and do Ghost to Ghost.
	Please.
	All right, my friend.
	Thank you very much for the call.
	Prediction number 31 is what it is.
	It's an awful lot of fun to be on the air.
	I wouldn't deny that.
	You know, for one second, I do have it in my blood and I'll just leave it there for now.
	We'll be right back.
	Okay, regarding last year's Prediction 52, Gordon in Florida tells me Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series.
	Apparently it was the Chicago Cubs lost in the first round, didn't make it close to the World Series.
	So it was Philadelphia Phillies versus Tampa Bay Rays.
	Okay, that's a bonk then.
	Let us proceed with... You're on the air, Coast to Coast AM on the wildcard line.
	Hello, this is Ron calling you from Houston, Texas.
	How are you?
	Hello.
	I'm just spiffy, thank you.
	It is fantastic to hear you back on the air, sir.
	I really wish we could hear you at least once every couple of weeks.
	It'd be great.
	I appreciate the sentiment, thank you.
	It's really good to be here, I can't deny it.
	Oh boy, I mean it's great just to hear your voice.
	Anyway, what's up?
	You have a prediction?
	I've got a little prediction for you and it's something I really feel in my bones.
	I believe 2009 is going to be the year of full disclosure by the United States government on UFOs.
	And I believe that Obama will be the disclosure president.
	Oh, that would be so cool.
	It's coming, Art, I'm telling you.
	It's coming.
	All these sightings we've had in 2008, and the magnitude of these sightings, it's coming.
	I mean, they're going to have to do it sooner or later, and Obama being a new To Washington, more or less.
	Being outside of the circle, so to speak.
	It's ideal.
	It would be a hell of a great way to take our minds off the financial crisis, wouldn't it?
	Well, that's another reason I believe it's going to happen, Art.
	For that additional reason that it will be an excellent diversion to take people's minds off of all this doom and gloom And guess what?
	If it happens when your prediction show comes for 2010, you won't have near as many gloomy predictions.
	That's right.
	But I suppose I could have an awful lot of listeners that have been turned into mush by, you know, death rays.
	I don't think that's going to happen.
	I'll see you later.
	All right, buddy.
	Thank you.
	Bye.
	The year of full disclosure.
	Could be.
	You know, a lot of strange things do occur when really hard financial times hit.
	As I mentioned earlier, we tend to have wars and all kinds of really weird things.
	I mean, they do that.
	They take our mind off what's going on, right?
	And that certainly would do it.
	Full disclosure about what's been going on here on Earth and done by Obama, the new guy.
	Maybe he'll just trot on in and say, like Carter wanted to do, I want all the information and I want it now.
	I want it on my desk right now.
	Before we decide about the rest of this money.
	Gotta get it there.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Art Bell, thank God you're back.
	Well, it's good to be here.
	Art, I drove a truck for 44 years and I was in the California mountains are snowing and tired as heck and couldn't get a radio station and I picked up you.
	I've been listening to you ever since you were back on the air.
	Well, thank you.
	My prediction is that from here in Arizona, in Glendale, that we're going to have a bloodbath on the Mexican-Arizona border this year before April.
	Before the end of April.
	Before April?
	Before the end of April.
	Wow.
	Okay, tell me more.
	Why?
	Well, they're going to have a drug that's coming across, and the INS is going to be involved, and there's going to be civilians involved, and it's just going to be a bloodbath, and it's going to be the catalyst that makes the U.S.
	government put troops on the border.
	Alright, I've got it.
	It's prediction number 33, and that's a pretty dire one, alright.
	A bloodbath on the Mexican border by April.
	And I suppose that could occur.
	There's certainly been a number of incidents on the border.
	I know it's been getting a lot scarier for the border guards.
	People have been trying to keep control of what goes across our border.
	It's been getting a lot more violent and a lot scarier.
	First time caller line, you are upon the air.
	Hello.
	Hi, this is Greg.
	How are you?
	I'm fine.
	Where are you calling from?
	Calling from Georgia.
	Okay.
	My prediction is that 2009 will see some event, perhaps catastrophic in nature, and I don't know what it will be, so I can't say exactly what that event will be.
	But I think it will disrupt the transportation in this country.
	And I think we'll see our food shelves dwindle within a week to nothing.
	And I think we'll see anarchy ensue.
	In the preceding weeks, months, and who knows?
	I'm sure it would.
	Let me ask you this.
	If there was suddenly nothing at the store, for how long would you be okay?
	Not near as long as I'd like to be.
	I'm not as prepared as I feel like I should be.
	Really?
	How long do you think you'd make it?
	A week?
	A month?
	No, I have the ability to plant a seed in the ground and grow it.
	Depending on the time of the year, but I would survive about three weeks right now, and I hope to increase that to six months to a year.
	That's good.
	I own property with water, which is good, and it's remote, so I have a place that I can take my family, if I can get there.
	There's the clencher.
	It doesn't do me any good.
	If it's not able to be accessed because you can't get on the roads for whatever reason, you're not allowed to.
	So you think it's going to be ground transportation disrupted?
	Yes, I think it will be restricted.
	I wonder what could do that?
	Any number of things.
	Probably the book of Daniel and Revelation coming to fruition.
	Oh, here I was thinking about fuel and stuff like that.
	Well, I mean, I'm just saying, I think that whatever fits into those prophecies, we don't know what that is.
	No, we don't.
	It could be the beginning or of, you know, Alright, we'll just keep it general.
	It's number 34, an event, whatever it is, disrupts transportation and therefore the food supply very quickly.
	That could occur, certainly a disruption of the food supply could occur through some event.
	And it's always worth asking yourself, for the sake of yourself and your family, how long you'd be good if something really did occur, if something disrupted the food supply.
	For how long could you take it?
	Could you and your family take it?
	Ask that question.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Yes.
	My name is Paul.
	I live down near Tupelo, Mississippi.
	Hi, Paul.
	I've been doing psychic readings for a number of years, semi-professionally.
	I don't actually Generally don't make any money or any kind of profit off of doing them.
	And I've been doing some readings for some people out in Australia.
	And one of the things that's kind of been coming through for the last probably about three or four months is I keep telling people that are looking at going I apologize, I'm nervous.
	No, that's all right.
	Just relax.
	I'm very interested in what you've got to say.
	One of the things that seems to be coming through is that there's going to be some type of an earth movement, like an earthquake or volcanic eruption or something, that's going to occur off the southwestern coast.
	Southwest coast of?
	Of Australia.
	And yeah, that this would have, it's not really going to be any type of a huge magnitude, which is a surprising thing, I think.
	But when it occurs, it's going to cause a collapse of like a canyon or cliff or some undersea type of geological thing.
	And it won't really be terribly surprising, I don't think, after it occurs.
	But, you know, because I think that there are probably geologists who would look back on it and would say, yes, that's something that's very likely going to happen.
	Or they could, you know, picture that it could happen.
	Do you believe there would be a tsunami associated with it?
	I believe that there will be.
	I don't think it will be particularly damaging.
	I don't think it will be anywhere near The impact that you would see, like, from the 2005... See, that's almost a positive prediction.
	Almost?
	It's an earthquake, but it's not a giant one.
	It's not a giant one.
	It will create some damage, and I don't really get a specific sense about how much or to what extent or anything like that.
	You know, that would be my prediction, is that there's going to be... I keep thinking sometime around February, but I suck when it comes to... Listen, just during 2009 is good enough.
	We'll put down Earth Movement, Southwest Coast of Australia, number 35.
	All right.
	All right.
	Thank you very much for the call, and take care.
	International Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hello?
	Yes, turn your radio off, please, and tell us where you are and first name.
	Is this Art Bell?
	It is.
	Art, hey man, my name's John.
	I'm calling from Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
	Yo, John.
	And man, Art, you are the best, I'm telling you.
	Thank you very much.
	We're doing predictions.
	I presume you have one for 2009.
	Yeah, my prediction is global leaders will come to realize the only way to prevent a global war Is to have one global currency and one global wage.
	Since money talks today, every country using the same currency will create the same situation on Earth that they had during the building of the Tower of Babylon.
	So global leaders get together and to prevent, uh, whatever, they decide to have one global wage and one global currency, correct?
	Yep, that'll create the same situation on Earth at the time of the building of the Tower of Babylon.
	Well, it certainly is.
	I mean, they were talking about spreading the wealth earlier.
	That's really spreading the wealth.
	One global currency and one global wage.
	I seriously doubt that will occur.
	I know there are many who think that the current financial distress here in America is going to lead to something of that sort, but I'm not one of those.
	I think that it will lead to some changes, probably, for example, the British.
	We'll cede the pound to the euro.
	I think they'll probably take on the euro in other words.
	There'll be some other changes but I don't think we're ready for a one world anything.
	One world wage, one world currency or any of the rest of it.
	I think there'd be, well frankly I think there'd be a revolution.
	In the United States, if that were proposed, that we take the dollar and combine it with the euro and heaven knows what else and no, I'm not ready for that and I think most of you are not ready for that and we get very angry.
	We'll be right back.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I am Art Bell here for George Norrie for tonight and tomorrow night, actually.
	And we're doing predictions for the year coming, 2009, as well as reviewing those predictions made for 2008.
	And we'll sort of do a tally at the end of it and see how you did.
	The biggest obvious hit that the audience had last year was, surprisingly, actually, for the economy.
	They predicted the economy was going to crash and burn anywhere from the beginning of the year to the second half of the year and then the last quarter of the year.
	So even those that we've read already, I can't say there's been anything spectacular with the exception of the economic predictions made.
	And how in the world this audience saw that coming en masse like that?
	Well, it's pretty amazing.
	We will be right back.
	Good morning all, and I would like to get my email address on the air.
	Those of you who'd like to fire me an email, I will not take predictions, only here on the air, by the way.
	Just so you know, that's a rule.
	Only predictions made on the air, so all can hear them, are recorded.
	But I'd love to get an email from you nonetheless, and the way to get an email to me is artbell at AOL.com, or better yet, artbell at MindSpring.
	It's a bigger mailbox.
	That's ARTBELL at MINDSPRING, M-I-N-D-S-P-R-I-N-G dot com.
	And ARTBELL, just lowercase, all together, A-R-T-B-E-L-L at MINDSPRING dot com.
	And I will look for your email and endeavor to answer it.
	It's hard to answer them all, but I will do my best.
	First time caller line, you are on the air.
	Art?
	Yes.
	How are you tonight, sir?
	Very well indeed.
	Thank you.
	You're welcome.
	My prediction is that by the end of the second quarter, 2009, you're going to see the stock market under $7,000, and that will all be precipitated by the fall of GM and Chrysler.
	Wow.
	You think that now, as you know, they've been given money that should get them at least to March or so.
	I think what's going to happen, though, with the initial funds that we're out at the Uh, politically, I think what's going to happen, I think that was a political move.
	I think they're going to find that by some magic sense that there's no viability.
	They're going to force GM and Chrysler into merger, which will take months.
	In the meantime, they'll bankrupt to break the contracts because until they break the unions, uh, the process won't fix itself.
	Well, I sort of agree with that.
	So you think, now let's get this straight, instead of totally crashing and burning, you think that they'll go through Chapter 11, break the contracts with the unions, and then re-emerge on the other side, but it's going to precipitate a market move down to around 7,000?
	I believe that's correct.
	I really think that's going to happen.
	I see all the indicators in line.
	Yeah, I think what you're suggesting is highly likely.
	If it happens, while there will be losses of jobs, it won't be as massive as everybody
	thinks because they're still going to make cars, but come back to work under different
	employment conditions.
	Yeah, I think what you're suggesting is highly likely.
	In fact, if you listen to President Bush, he almost, I believe he said something like
	bankruptcy chapter 11 is on the table to be talked about, but I guess I kind of wanted
	to punt it ahead to the Obama administration.
	I think the money was just a political move.
	Okay, 37 is the number of your prediction, quite likely in fact.
	Thank you.
	And take care.
	Yes, I would suggest that's certainly possible.
	We'll make that number 37 and continue trying to get as many as we can in.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Yes, hi.
	Is this heartbeat?
	It is, yes.
	Turn the radio off, please.
	Oh, oh, I thought you're still...
	Uh-huh, there's a delay.
	Our prediction, July 24th, we're going to see world peace.
	July 25th, I shouldn't laugh.
	He's laughing.
	July 20th, I am laughing.
	July 24th, world peace.
	Yeah.
	Well, that would certainly be a first.
	Why do you think that will happen?
	I just know it.
	So it just came to you?
	I just know it's going to be.
	Everybody will suddenly sort of get a peaceful look on their face and Get tired of all this.
	And war no more?
	Well, I don't know for no more, but it will happen.
	Well, it's the first really positive prediction we've had, and I will, it's down as number 38.
	38.
	Yep.
	We shall see.
	Okay, thank you very much.
	I shouldn't laugh.
	World peace.
	No, this is not the Miss America contest.
	World peace would be nice, wouldn't it?
	I guess I've got to say without laughing that I don't think it's ever going to happen.
	At least, um, certainly not in our lifetimes.
	And maybe not in mankind's lifetime.
	We're just not going to see it.
	It's just not in us.
	We are... We are warrior animals.
	Am I being too rough on us?
	I don't think so.
	We are warrior animals.
	International Line, you're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hello, Art.
	Yes, it's Kevin from Iroquois Falls, Ontario.
	Hi, Kevin.
	I know you probably don't, quote, believe this.
	I don't like that word, believe.
	I have to say that I think the North American Union is going to be declared this year.
	I would say possibly by August the economy is going to be in such a disarray, there's going to be such civil unrest that the only way, the only solution that they will have is a North American Union.
	How do you think Canadians will react to that?
	I think a lot of Canadians know that it's coming.
	Every Canadian that I've spoken to knows about the New World Order.
	They're quite aware of it, and they know their plans.
	I know you don't buy into a lot of the conspiracies and whatnot, but a lot of people see the Emerald coming.
	A lot of people know that the Emerald coins and whatnot have already been minted and printed.
	So yeah, I see the... Minted and printed.
	Where are they?
	Well, apparently they're being minted out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, but that's just a rumor, but there has been video proof of it apparently.
	Well, alright, let's say it's true.
	It would what?
	Combine the Canadian currency with the American currency?
	And Mexico.
	And Mexico?
	Yep.
	See, that seems a little unlikely.
	Well, I think what's going to happen first is that the economies of all three countries are going to tank and fail.
	The solution that they're going to have is the Amero.
	And I think afterwards they're going to, for the security of the country, because there's going to be a lot more unrest going on and wars going on in the Middle East, that they're going to say, well, for the, you know, for the security of our nations, we're going to have to combine our nations and thus will be the birth.
	They're going to announce the North American Union, but I don't think it's going to happen until around 2010, but it's going to be the announcement of the North American Union this year.
	Boy, that'll bring a lot of trouble with it.
	Well, maybe that's the plan.
	Mm-hmm.
	All right, number 39 it is, and we'll see.
	All right.
	Have a good night, or have a good year.
	You too.
	I don't know about that.
	Let's see.
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Turn the radio off, please.
	All right, sir.
	I didn't realize there was that big a delay.
	Okay, this is Valerie from Oklahoma City, and I also have one of the bad predictions.
	I see a hotel fire.
	If it's not in America proper, it's run by an American company, you know, say in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands.
	A big high-rise hotel?
	Yes, and there is going to be a Fairly high loss of life, but there's also going to be a couple of miracle rescues.
	People, groups of people that thought they were dead and instead through some type of miracles are going to make it out.
	Okay.
	And the only thing I can say is when I have one of these type of visions, I do a lot of praying and hope to heck that next year I am totally wrong.
	Okay.
	Well, number 40 it is, and we will review it for you next year, and I hope you're wrong, but it sounds awfully specific.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, sir, and Happy New Year to you and yours and to all the other listeners.
	Okay, take care.
	A big hotel fire, probably an American hotel, a high-rise, a lot of loss of life, and some miracle saves.
	Okay, let us go east of the Rockies.
	You're on the air.
	Good morning.
	Hello?
	Yes, hello.
	Hi, Art.
	How are you doing?
	This is Nick from North Carolina.
	Yes, sir.
	I'm a blimp enthusiast.
	I have about 23 weapons.
	I'm having a hard time understanding you.
	I'm sorry.
	Say again.
	I've got a few weapons of my own, but I believe there will be a blimp crash this year.
	A crash?
	What kind of crash?
	Blimp crash.
	I'm sorry, a what?
	Blimp crash.
	Oh, blimp.
	Okay, got it.
	Blimp crash.
	That's an unusual prediction, to say the least.
	So, you mean like one of the ones over a sporting event, for example, or?
	That isn't my favorite.
	I think that'll happen to all of you.
	Alright, it's going to be prediction number 41 and I, that is pretty unusual, a blimp crash.
	I can't even, I can't think back to the last blimp crash.
	Can any of you?
	In modern times, I don't think there really, I don't think there has been one, has there?
	First time caller line, that's interesting, you're on the air, hello.
	Blimp crash, hello.
	Pardon?
	Yes.
	That the people will overthrow the government because people are going to be so fed up with the government, the way it's being run.
	The U.S.
	government?
	Yes.
	That's quite a prediction.
	Yes.
	And what do you think is going to precipitate that?
	I just believe the people are going to be tired of, you know, being treated the way we are.
	And I just think that People want to change.
	And what do you think we would change it to?
	For the better.
	To put people back to work.
	People want to stimulate the economy in that effect.
	Uh huh.
	So we overthrow the government and do what?
	I mean, you know, I mean, we have a, you know, a constitution.
	We have Bill of Rights.
	We have various, uh, uh, different parts of, uh, of government and so forth and so on and judiciary and, you know, all the rest of it.
	So, I mean, what would you replace it with is what I guess I'm getting at.
	Well, I just, I just think that, uh, people just will, you know, just create their own Government and let the people have their rights instead of being, you know, banned by the government.
	Right.
	So that's just my prediction.
	All right.
	And it'll be number 42.
	A little indistinct.
	So he thinks the government will be overthrown.
	You know, there's always that question of, well, we're going to replace it with I mean, messy as it is, what we have, you know it's a difficult juncture to be making this argument, but what we have still, messy as it is, has, it's, I mean, it's worked.
	In its own way, it's worked.
	No denying that.
	At least up until now, it's been pretty functional and has led us in a fairly decent direction.
	All of that is a very difficult argument under present circumstances, I know.
	West of the Rockies, you're on the air, good morning!
	I predict Gary Hillman will grow another foot and be the first human tripod.
	On a serious note, George Norrie will be married this year.
	Really?
	Yes.
	You have inside information?
	I like this one.
	George Norrie is married.
	Just a gut feeling I have.
	And remember, You can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish.
	You have a very good night, sir.
	Thank you.
	And that'll be prediction number 43.
	George hitches himself up this year.
	Okay, wildcard line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hello, Art.
	Hi.
	Finally, I made it.
	It would appear so.
	Yep.
	Okay, I've got a prediction for you.
	Okay.
	For 2009, in the city of Phoenix, my name is Alden from Phoenix, by the way.
	Right.
	In the city of Phoenix, the rain gauge at Sky Harbor Airport, at least five times throughout the year, will read eight-tenths of an inch or more in one day.
	day.
	Wow.
	At least five times, maybe more.
	Thank you.
	Now, where are you getting this?
	I mean, is it 8 tenths of an inch or more?
	I have a knack for predicting weather.
	Yeah?
	Last year's prediction that I wanted to give, I couldn't get through, was that we would get a minimum of 7.2 inches a year for this year.
	And we did.
	Right?
	That's like the one that got away, though, because you didn't get it on the air.
	Yeah.
	And the year before, I had a vision of what appeared to be snow in the outer suburbs of Phoenix.
	Now, that would be something.
	It wasn't snow.
	It was hail.
	This was about two or three years ago.
	Okay.
	Well, all right, we've got it.
	Eight-tenths of an inch, eight or more times during the year.
	No, five times.
	Five times?
	Five times.
	I'm sorry.
	Five times.
	Okay, got it.
	Seeing as we only get eight inches a year on the average, that's going to be something.
	All right, I've got it, and it's number 44.
	Thank you very much.
	We're very nearly out of time.
	Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hey, Art, I hear me.
	Um, I hear you fine, sir.
	Perfect!
	Wow, okay.
	Well, we have an awfully big echo, but I'll live with it.
	Okay, sorry.
	Well, nice to hear your voice again on the radio.
	It's wonderful.
	Robert from Los Angeles.
	And, do you have number 65 handy?
	Prediction 65 from last year?
	Uh, sure.
	Of course, I have these things handy.
	65 would be that I return, Art Bell returns to Coast to Coast.
	Now, that implies permanently, and I did not, of course.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I think, I don't know if there was a number.
	My prediction was there's a female senator scandal.
	I think it was 65, or if I forget.
	Well, 63 is another Clinton sex scandal.
	No, this was female senator scandal that I predicted, and as we know, she threatened Obama's life sort of weird on the radio, if you remember that.
	Said you could end up like Bobby Kennedy.
	Remember that one?
	No.
	Well, no, vaguely, oh yeah, okay, vaguely I do, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, and everybody said, you threatened his life, and she goes, no, I wouldn't do that.
	Yeah, I remember.
	Okay, so, no, I don't find it here, actually.
	Oh, maybe I'll have to look through it.
	Yeah, I'll have to look through it and see.
	Yeah, well, at least for next year I have, there'll be investigations into the artificial manipulation of oil prices.
	You think?
	Yeah, that's a stretch, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	It was speculation.
	I don't know if that's manipulation.
	It's manipulation in a way.
	Yeah, you remember every time I told you when there's an election comes up, the price drops, and I told Norrie that if we get a Democratic president, mysteriously, gas will drop a couple dollars a gallon.
	If we have a Democrat in, and that had happened.
	I talked to Norrie about that.
	He goes, yeah, you're right about that.
	And I predicted that if we had a Democrat in, it would be $1.49 once you're sworn in.
	And it's almost that right now.
	It'll be just about exactly that.
	All right, thank you very much.
	That's prediction number 45.
	That'll do it for this evening.
	Don't worry, if you didn't get your prediction in, Not a problem.
	We're going to do part two, as we always have, annually tomorrow night.
	It's been a blast.
	It's been extremely enjoyable.
	Every time I get back on the air again, I remind myself of how much fun it is.
	Have a great night, everybody.

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