RADIO CALL — TAPE #751, SIDE #1
Q: Mark Russell Bell
S: “Coast to Coast AM” screeners
G: George Noory, host of “Coast to Coast AM”
V: telephone company automated Voice
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: I DIALED “COAST TO COAST AM” ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2002.)
S: Thank you for calling “Coast.” Can you hold please?
Q: Sure.
G: — with Earth. But scientists have now said there is little support for investigating how to turn aside a big deadly space rock. Big mistake. The United States spends about $3 1/2 to $4 million a year—that’s nothing—to track asteroids and comets that might hit the Earth at some point but very little on strategies to get our planet out of the way. That according to an astronomer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He says there’s been little money spent on studies. Part of the problem has been the lack of an actual hazard. So far there’s really no clear danger of an asteroid strike big enough to damage the Earth and so nobody seems to care. But if one were detected in the future, right now there is no plan to destroy it, deflect it. No one knows. And so tonight on “Coast to Coast” I shall say it again. Big mistake. Hey, remember that UFO scare in India? People have died out there. Well music companies in India are now cashing in on this recent UFO scare. An album of ballads has been released about the incidents in the northern state of —
S: “Coast to Coast.” Can I get your first name please?
Q: Sure. It’s Mark.
S: Where are you calling from tonight?
Q: From Los Angeles.
S: What’s your question or comment?
Q: It has to do with coincidences.
S: Is it Mark or Mike?
Q: Mark, okay.
S: Keep listening. When you hear the wild card called, you’ll be — when was the last time you were on, by the way?
Q: I called on Friday.
S: You called then? Oh we need . . . (“YEAH”)
Q: That’s why I had to call because I — because he asked me a question and I said something that was not quite correct.
S: Well, you know, we still space them out for a week though. I can’t . . .
Q: You do? Because he’s never said that before.
S: Yeah. Yeah, we do.
Q: Also, last — on the broadcast last time, I guess you were having technical problems, weren’t you? Because there was a strange voice that was saying, (“SOME”) like, “Lose him.” And I was trying to — was that (or “WAS THAT”) — was that the producer who said that?
S: No. There wasn’t any voice . . .
Q: I mean if — because I taped it. (“I” “YOU KNOW”) Because I was calling so I taped the broadcast and you can hear it right before the end of the hour and a half. You hear a voice saying, “Lose him.” Either that or it’s EVP. (“BUT I”) It didn’t sound like EVP to me.
S: Yeah, must be something else bleeding in over ’cause no, wasn’t us.
Q: What’s your name?
S: Rodney.
Q: Are you new there?
S: No. Not new at all.
Q: Have you been to my website testament.org?
S: No, I haven’t.
Q: Will you go — will you please go see it ’cause it’s got a lot of information there about “Coast to Coast.”
S: Okay. I’ll do that. I can’t do it right now. I mean I’ve got to finish screening calls so —
Q: Yeah, well you — (“I”) see, I mean I think this is terrible. I mean you don’t know what kind of karma you’re going to have to deal with by keeping people off the air.
S: Well we — we space people out for a week. That’s just a rule I have.
Q: What did you say?
S: That we — that’s the rule we have . . .
Q: Do you know — do you know that there are guests on that show (“WHO”) people pay $5,000 for them to be guests on the show?
S: (small laugh) This show?
Q: Yeah.
S: No, we don’t pay for the — we don’t pay . . .
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: RODNEY DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THAT I MEANT PAYMENTS WERE MADE TO THE SHOW FOR PEOPLE TO BE GUESTS INSTEAD OF VICE-VERSA; AND I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THAT HE HAD MISINTERPRETED MY POINT, ON PURPOSE OR OTHERWISE.)
Q: Yeah, I went to — I went to a lecture and —
S: Well I work here and there’s only . . .
Q: William Barnes. William Barnes who was on said $5,000 was paid for him to be on the show.
S: No, we don’t . . .
Q: So that means people like me, who don’t — who aren’t commercial, get cheated. (“WE”) We never get to be invited to be guests on the show.
S: We don’t pay for any guests.
Q: Yes, you do.
S: No, we don’t . . .
Q: He and his wife both confirmed it so I have two sources.
S: We don’t pay for any guests. Have them show you a check.
Q: I don’t need to. I can tell from the people that are on.
S: Well I’m a manager here. I know what happens. They don’t pay for guests.
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: I MADE NO RESPONSE AND A FEW SECONDS LATER RODNEY TERMINATED THE CALL. UPSET THAT HE HAD HUNG UP ON ME, I DECIDED TO CALL BACK. UPON TRANSCRIBING THIS TAPE, I REALIZED THAT A DIFFERENT STAFF MEMBER ANSWERED THE CALL AFTER THIS—ONE MORE FAMILIAR—YET I DIDN’T REALIZE IT AT THE TIME.)
S: Thank you for calling “Coast to Coast AM.”
Q: This is Mark from Los Angeles.
S: We just told you we’re not taking your call tonight.
Q: Can I speak to someone else there?
S: No.
Q: Who’s been there (call disconnected) a little bit longer.
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: I DECIDED TO CALL BACK AGAIN.)
S: This is “Coast to Coast AM”
Q: Let me just tell you a little —
S: Excuse me. This is a call-in show . . .
Q: Exactly. And I’m calling in.
S: I’m telling you right now. Okay . . .
Q: Obviously, Somebody wants me to call in.
S: Yes. Good-bye. (call disconnected)
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: I DECIDED TO CALL BACK AGAIN.)
V: The party you have reached is not accepting your calls at this time.
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Q: (speaking into tape recorder) So I’m listening to George and his news items of the day. I mean he just doesn’t get it the way Art does. Art may be many things but he isn’t stupid when it comes to knowing what’s important news and what isn’t. Anyway, since I was screened again, I thought I would say what I had planned to say. Something to the effect of: I didn’t think — I didn’t really mean to say that seeing the pest control trucks meant that Someone of Something would exterminate us; more as a warning that we will exterminate ourselves. The day after that call, Saturday, I only heard a few songs on the radio and one of them was “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. I heard the song again today when I dropped by the 99 cents store and I don’t want to hear it anymore. I don’t know what else I would’ve said. I would’ve liked to have said my testament.org website address. Maybe I would comment on the “One Night in Bangkok” song, about the music that played right before I was on. Sometimes lyrics can have a different meaning for listeners than they do for those who wrote the song. I’ve talked about some of the lyrics before
. . . I don’t see you guys rating The kind of mate I’m contemplating . . .
Q: When I heard that in London seeing the play “Chess,” it didn’t really ring any bells. But now all the different songs I heard back then can be interpreted in different ways. Such as Morrissey’s “Hairdresser On Fire.” Anyway, well I think my Email to George expressed something. I guess I don’t really communicate all the details. If I’m talking about synchronicity and cars, I guess I should mention all the different Jesus fish insignias I see all the time; or the dove of peace insignias; or all the Sentras that seem to be in front of my car. I do pay attention to these things. Well Art’s going to be back tomorrow: “the triumphant return” as George said.
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Q: By the way, I couldn’t call last night, Labor Day, because they had a rerun on.
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Q: So it’s Thursday. I listened to the first three hours of last night’s four-hour show with Art. And I found him on a different emotional level than his last appearance, the transcript for which partially will appear on my website soon. Now he might know the difference between trivial stories and important stories but that doesn’t mean he’ll share with you the important stories, obviously. (“LEAD US”) Anyway, it was very horrifying. The guest was Nick Cook, a defense and aerospace journalist for Jane’s Defense Weekly, “the bible of the international defense industry” in Art’s words. A very high profile military author. And this — there are — I guess (people in) every industry calls themselves ‘the business.’ As I heard once during the interview. But he is very well connected, obviously. He had a documentary appear on the Discovery Channel and his comments are cited all the time by the media, apparently. He talks about defense and security issues for the BBC news, ITN, Sky News, CNN, BBC World Service. He’s been interviewed recently for “Fresh Air” on NPR and CNN FN. What a perfect person for Art to be speaking to because much of what he spoke about was war with Iraq, which is something he’s very enthusiastic about. And once he even used the bumper music about war not being good for absolutely nothing and then Art added, “Usually.” I even heard him make comments about liberals. I wonder if he’s been (“LL”) listening to Rush Limbaugh while he was away. So there was a lot of discussion of Iraq and the USA and I did find it to be propaganda. It just was irrational. Everyone may have a bias but I have seldom heard such a rationality. There was nothing said about the threat of retaliation for a country like Iraq, should they create terror. And there’s really no evidence to suggest that they have. I guess the most one can come up with at the present is a lot of unexplained forest fires; or, actually, some of the recent forest fires this summer were even more implausible than some kind of conspiracy theory about terrorism. What a world we live. So another show of hate and violence and fear as opposed to the ennobling parts of life: how we’re all connected to Spirit and God, our Higher Self. It was all the lower self. I keep thi(nking) — (“I”) like yesterday when I saw the car bumper sticker that said “Anything Can Happen,” well apparently not with Art. We all have this process with Spirit interacting with us. I can’t imagine what’s going on with Art. He talked about building a fence because children were making dust. He said his wife was having more asthma attacks. And his back problem is unremittent. One of the EVPs suggested that the spasms would continue. Another EVP I heard during the show — they were discussing — Art said shouldn’t he be worried about weapons of mass destruction such as chemical or disease agents and I heard an EVP saying, “YES” or “YEAH.” It’s a very complex issue. He also played The Doors. He said the line in the song about seven horse being on the mark was a very — I can’t remember his exact words. So the perpetual cycle of violence is ever given momentum by the media, including “Coast to Coast AM.” I mean objectively considering what we did to Afghanistan without any trial, without any due process of law — against a mastermind that’s never even been proven as well, I think you can (“UN”) without any bias say that the mad dog of the world right now is the United States. The issue of malicious intent came up. And I think any other country in the world would have to say that the United States has showed more malicious intent to other countries that Iraq has recently. I’m not saying that there are easy answers and I don’t believe in taking a sentimentalized view of people and yet if we can educate people about Spirit and let them know that when you kill another person that you kill God, as much as if someone kills you they’re killing God and there is karma. Anyway, Art is living proof if you give — share the information, share the facts, the data, the parallels, make a case — and for whatever reason it’s either ignored or rejected. Anyway, they said he’ll be on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for a while and George will be on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I don’t know what I should say. I still feel desperate to do something. I keep thinking back about when I visited Paul in the retirement home and that woman whose back went into spasms. And I’ve had spasms — I mean very unimportant ones but I always interpreted them as Someone trying to get my attention for some — or in some way.
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Q: So now I do regret what I said about George. Even though a lot of his little freak accident reports seem trivial to me, nothing could be as bad as the war mongering I heard last night. Again, I don’t know what to do. I guess I’ll pray for the world. And for God and for people. I don’t know what next will happen in Art’s story. So far, it’s been so regrettable — at least, that’s my view.
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Q: I wonder if people like Art realize that all this talk of war and all this money — the billions spent on the military here in the United States gives a very clear message to the world, encouraging them to bolster their own defenses and military and weapons of mass destruction in a vicious, never-ending circle. And, of course, wars are linked to the sustained success of the military industrial complex. So what I’ll be doing is transcribing and adding more tapes soon. All the calls that I’ve heard so far with maybe an exception really tell you a lot, if you know how Spirit works.
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Q: I also was reflecting on something else I didn’t like in my call. At least I didn’t sound crazy. It wasn’t quite as bad altogether as I thought for a while. But also when I (“MM”) made that remark about “bar-eljon” sounding like ‘alien’ — I mean that was sort of ridiculous. It just shows how difficult I find the whole alien visitation area, having so few of my own experiences in a meaningful way with aliens. I’ve had the dreams. The last time, I heard the humming which suggested a visitation of some sort but I have no idea what that meant. It might have been a metaphor even. It might have been a joke. I don’t think so. Do we all have aliens assigned to us? Anyway, obviously there’s a lot regarding aliens that suggest metaphors, good and bad. (“I MEAN”) Those people who channel aliens who say stupid things is an example of a bad metaphor. So I still am not certain what level — there are so many different levels of reality that aliens exist on. In dreams they can be used as metaphors. And yet there’s also a lot of evidence to suggest that there are actual visitations going on physically in the world, not that it’s something that I can say I’ve ever experienced myself. It’s definitely the most difficult area — one of the most difficult areas of the book. I went to the library yesterday and there’s very few books of interest in that small library (“NN”) near-by but I had to check out Colin Wilson’s Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors. I started reading it and he talks about heterosexuality and his experiences; and a co-incidence of a woman’s dress blowing up. I’ve only read a little bit. It will be interesting to see if he’s also as comfortable talking about his homosexuality impulses.
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Q: Well I (or “WELL I”) — as I was working on the Tape #750 transcript, I thought that some of the anecdotes (“WELL”) interesting when you can hear it because of the tones of the people’s voices. Reading the transcript leaves something to be desired. Some of the subjects really were not that striking because you hear similar things all the time on “Coast to Coast.” Anyway, as I was typing the unattributed sounds I realized I was hitting a lot of the Z key instead of the X key by accident, which is unusual for me. But then I realized that maybe Mighael was trying to say that these — this part is boring. So I went through and I edited out the calls that I didn’t think were spot-on to what I’m trying to convey. So one of the things I think I’ve learned during this project is that words with C and T often produce a sound not unlike an unattributed sound. “Too. Too. Too. Cliche. Cliche. Cliche.” Just to give you an example. I don’t know what this means: if I should keep it in the transcripts where I’ve marked unattributed sounds next to Cs and Ts. I don’t know exactly how to handle this.
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Q: So I listened to this last journal entry and there were some cases of the C sound and maybe the T sound not having the noises.
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: LISTENING TO THE SIX WORDS OF MY TEST WITH THE DICTAPHONE VOICE PROCESSER MICROCASSETTE TRANSCRIPTION MACHINE, THERE WERE OVERLAPPING PERCUSSIVE SOUNDS.)
Q: So now let me try a word I just heard an unattributed sound on. “Journal. Journal. Journal.” So I listened to what I just said and the last time I said journal (more slowly each time) didn’t have as prominent a sound to the pronunciation of the ‘J’ but there was an unattributed sound still there. So I guess Cs and Ts and Js can create sounds like unattributed sounds. “A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.”
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: THE FOLLOWING LETTERS HAD OVERLAPPING SOUNDS UPON LISTENING TO THE TAPE ON MY DICTAPHONE TRANSCRIBING MACHINE: A, C, D, G, K, P, Q, T. THERE WERE ALSO UNATTRIBUTED SOUNDS PRECEDING E, I, V AND Y.)
Q: So listening to that. “C T G J K P Q.”
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Q: So it’s not just the C but it’s the CL sound that can be problematic. “C.” And I’m sure there are many more similar ones.
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Q: But then I just heard some noises not clearly linked with any letter. Right now I simply don’t know what to do with my transcripts.
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Q: “Transcript.”
(TRANSCRIBER”S NOTE: THERE WERE TWO OVERLAPPING SOUNDS HEARD DURING MY REITERATION OF THIS WORD.)
Q: So phonetics is a very complex science — about as complex as all the other ones. I’ll have to think about it later.
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Q: “C.” (louder:) “C.” (Farther away from tape recorder:) “C. (or spirit message: “C”) C.”
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: THERE WAS NO OVERLAPPING SOUND DURING THE THIRD RECITATION OF “C” AS ‘KA’ [VOICE APPARENTLY FARTHEST AWAY FROM THE TAPE RECORDER] UNLESS THIS THIRD RECITATION IS A SPIRIT MESSAGE AS THIS IS THE ONLY ONE OF THE FOUR INSTANCES THAT THE VOICE TONE ISN’T RECOGNIZABLE AS WITHIN MY USUAL RANGE.)
Q: So I’ll listen to some portions of the tapes I’ve already double-checked. What I think I’ll do is just put a note saying that some letters and letter combinations seem to create consistent sounds like unattributed sounds; however, many sounds do not show such a consistent correlation so in the transcripts I identify clear sounds, some of which may be linked to particular letter arrangements. Yet many are not so this needs more study obviously.
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: AS THE RESULT OF COMPUTER PROBLEMS, I EVENTUALLY LOST THE TRANSCRIPT OF TAPE #750 AND DECIDED TO ADD JUST AN EXCERPT.)
S: Thank you for calling “Coast.” Can you hold please?
Q: Sure.
G: — with Earth. But scientists have now said there is little support for investigating how to turn aside a big deadly space rock. Big mistake. The United States spends about $3 1/2 to $4 million a year—that’s nothing—to track asteroids and comets that might hit the Earth at some point but very little on strategies to get our planet out of the way. That according to an astronomer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He says there’s been little money spent on studies. Part of the problem has been the lack of an actual hazard. So far there’s really no clear danger of an asteroid strike big enough to damage the Earth and so nobody seems to care. But if one were detected in the future, right now there is no plan to destroy it, deflect it. No one knows. And so tonight on “Coast to Coast” I shall say it again. Big mistake. Hey, remember that UFO scare in India? People have died out there. Well music companies in India are now cashing in on this recent UFO scare. An album of ballads has been released about the incidents in the northern state of —
S: “Coast to Coast.” Can I get your first name please?
Q: Sure. It’s Mark.
S: Where are you calling from tonight?
Q: From Los Angeles.
S: What’s your question or comment?
Q: It has to do with coincidences.
S: Is it Mark or Mike?
Q: Mark, okay.
S: Keep listening. When you hear the wild card called, you’ll be — when was the last time you were on, by the way?
Q: I called on Friday.
S: You called then? Oh we need . . . (“YEAH”)
Q: That’s why I had to call because I — because he asked me a question and I said something that was not quite correct.
S: Well, you know, we still space them out for a week though. I can’t . . .
Q: You do? Because he’s never said that before.
S: Yeah. Yeah, we do.
Q: Also, last — on the broadcast last time, I guess you were having technical problems, weren’t you? Because there was a strange voice that was saying, (“SOME”) like, “Lose him.” And I was trying to — was that (or “WAS THAT”) — was that the producer who said that?
S: No. There wasn’t any voice . . .
Q: I mean if — because I taped it. (“I” “YOU KNOW”) Because I was calling so I taped the broadcast and you can hear it right before the end of the hour and a half. You hear a voice saying, “Lose him.” Either that or it’s EVP. (“BUT I”) It didn’t sound like EVP to me.
S: Yeah, must be something else bleeding in over ’cause no, wasn’t us.
Q: What’s your name?
S: Rodney.
Q: Are you new there?
S: No. Not new at all.
Q: Have you been to my website testament.org?
S: No, I haven’t.
Q: Will you go — will you please go see it ’cause it’s got a lot of information there about “Coast to Coast.”
S: Okay. I’ll do that. I can’t do it right now. I mean I’ve got to finish screening calls so —
Q: Yeah, well you — (“I”) see, I mean I think this is terrible. I mean you don’t know what kind of karma you’re going to have to deal with by keeping people off the air.
S: Well we — we space people out for a week. That’s just a rule I have.
Q: What did you say?
S: That we — that’s the rule we have . . .
Q: Do you know — do you know that there are guests on that show (“WHO”) people pay $5,000 for them to be guests on the show?
S: (small laugh) This show?
Q: Yeah.
S: No, we don’t pay for the — we don’t pay . . .
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: RODNEY DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THAT I MEANT PAYMENTS WERE MADE TO THE SHOW FOR PEOPLE TO BE GUESTS INSTEAD OF VICE-VERSA; AND I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THAT HE HAD MISINTERPRETED MY POINT, ON PURPOSE OR OTHERWISE.)
Q: Yeah, I went to — I went to a lecture and —
S: Well I work here and there’s only . . .
Q: William Barnes. William Barnes who was on said $5,000 was paid for him to be on the show.
S: No, we don’t . . .
Q: So that means people like me, who don’t — who aren’t commercial, get cheated. (“WE”) We never get to be invited to be guests on the show.
S: We don’t pay for any guests.
Q: Yes, you do.
S: No, we don’t . . .
Q: He and his wife both confirmed it so I have two sources.
S: We don’t pay for any guests. Have them show you a check.
Q: I don’t need to. I can tell from the people that are on.
S: Well I’m a manager here. I know what happens. They don’t pay for guests.
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: I MADE NO RESPONSE AND A FEW SECONDS LATER RODNEY TERMINATED THE CALL. UPSET THAT HE HAD HUNG UP ON ME, I DECIDED TO CALL BACK. UPON TRANSCRIBING THIS TAPE, I REALIZED THAT A DIFFERENT STAFF MEMBER ANSWERED THE CALL AFTER THIS—ONE MORE FAMILIAR—YET I DIDN’T REALIZE IT AT THE TIME.)
S: Thank you for calling “Coast to Coast AM.”
Q: This is Mark from Los Angeles.
S: We just told you we’re not taking your call tonight.
Q: Can I speak to someone else there?
S: No.
Q: Who’s been there (call disconnected) a little bit longer.
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: I DECIDED TO CALL BACK AGAIN.)
S: This is “Coast to Coast AM”
Q: Let me just tell you a little —
S: Excuse me. This is a call-in show . . .
Q: Exactly. And I’m calling in.
S: I’m telling you right now. Okay . . .
Q: Obviously, Somebody wants me to call in.
S: Yes. Good-bye. (call disconnected)
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: I DECIDED TO CALL BACK AGAIN.)
V: The party you have reached is not accepting your calls at this time.
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Q: (speaking into tape recorder) So I’m listening to George and his news items of the day. I mean he just doesn’t get it the way Art does. Art may be many things but he isn’t stupid when it comes to knowing what’s important news and what isn’t. Anyway, since I was screened again, I thought I would say what I had planned to say. Something to the effect of: I didn’t think — I didn’t really mean to say that seeing the pest control trucks meant that Someone of Something would exterminate us; more as a warning that we will exterminate ourselves. The day after that call, Saturday, I only heard a few songs on the radio and one of them was “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. I heard the song again today when I dropped by the 99 cents store and I don’t want to hear it anymore. I don’t know what else I would’ve said. I would’ve liked to have said my testament.org website address. Maybe I would comment on the “One Night in Bangkok” song, about the music that played right before I was on. Sometimes lyrics can have a different meaning for listeners than they do for those who wrote the song. I’ve talked about some of the lyrics before
. . . I don’t see you guys rating The kind of mate I’m contemplating . . .
Q: When I heard that in London seeing the play “Chess,” it didn’t really ring any bells. But now all the different songs I heard back then can be interpreted in different ways. Such as Morrissey’s “Hairdresser On Fire.” Anyway, well I think my Email to George expressed something. I guess I don’t really communicate all the details. If I’m talking about synchronicity and cars, I guess I should mention all the different Jesus fish insignias I see all the time; or the dove of peace insignias; or all the Sentras that seem to be in front of my car. I do pay attention to these things. Well Art’s going to be back tomorrow: “the triumphant return” as George said.
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Q: By the way, I couldn’t call last night, Labor Day, because they had a rerun on.
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Q: So it’s Thursday. I listened to the first three hours of last night’s four-hour show with Art. And I found him on a different emotional level than his last appearance, the transcript for which partially will appear on my website soon. Now he might know the difference between trivial stories and important stories but that doesn’t mean he’ll share with you the important stories, obviously. (“LEAD US”) Anyway, it was very horrifying. The guest was Nick Cook, a defense and aerospace journalist for Jane’s Defense Weekly, “the bible of the international defense industry” in Art’s words. A very high profile military author. And this — there are — I guess (people in) every industry calls themselves ‘the business.’ As I heard once during the interview. But he is very well connected, obviously. He had a documentary appear on the Discovery Channel and his comments are cited all the time by the media, apparently. He talks about defense and security issues for the BBC news, ITN, Sky News, CNN, BBC World Service. He’s been interviewed recently for “Fresh Air” on NPR and CNN FN. What a perfect person for Art to be speaking to because much of what he spoke about was war with Iraq, which is something he’s very enthusiastic about. And once he even used the bumper music about war not being good for absolutely nothing and then Art added, “Usually.” I even heard him make comments about liberals. I wonder if he’s been (“LL”) listening to Rush Limbaugh while he was away. So there was a lot of discussion of Iraq and the USA and I did find it to be propaganda. It just was irrational. Everyone may have a bias but I have seldom heard such a rationality. There was nothing said about the threat of retaliation for a country like Iraq, should they create terror. And there’s really no evidence to suggest that they have. I guess the most one can come up with at the present is a lot of unexplained forest fires; or, actually, some of the recent forest fires this summer were even more implausible than some kind of conspiracy theory about terrorism. What a world we live. So another show of hate and violence and fear as opposed to the ennobling parts of life: how we’re all connected to Spirit and God, our Higher Self. It was all the lower self. I keep thi(nking) — (“I”) like yesterday when I saw the car bumper sticker that said “Anything Can Happen,” well apparently not with Art. We all have this process with Spirit interacting with us. I can’t imagine what’s going on with Art. He talked about building a fence because children were making dust. He said his wife was having more asthma attacks. And his back problem is unremittent. One of the EVPs suggested that the spasms would continue. Another EVP I heard during the show — they were discussing — Art said shouldn’t he be worried about weapons of mass destruction such as chemical or disease agents and I heard an EVP saying, “YES” or “YEAH.” It’s a very complex issue. He also played The Doors. He said the line in the song about seven horse being on the mark was a very — I can’t remember his exact words. So the perpetual cycle of violence is ever given momentum by the media, including “Coast to Coast AM.” I mean objectively considering what we did to Afghanistan without any trial, without any due process of law — against a mastermind that’s never even been proven as well, I think you can (“UN”) without any bias say that the mad dog of the world right now is the United States. The issue of malicious intent came up. And I think any other country in the world would have to say that the United States has showed more malicious intent to other countries that Iraq has recently. I’m not saying that there are easy answers and I don’t believe in taking a sentimentalized view of people and yet if we can educate people about Spirit and let them know that when you kill another person that you kill God, as much as if someone kills you they’re killing God and there is karma. Anyway, Art is living proof if you give — share the information, share the facts, the data, the parallels, make a case — and for whatever reason it’s either ignored or rejected. Anyway, they said he’ll be on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for a while and George will be on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I don’t know what I should say. I still feel desperate to do something. I keep thinking back about when I visited Paul in the retirement home and that woman whose back went into spasms. And I’ve had spasms — I mean very unimportant ones but I always interpreted them as Someone trying to get my attention for some — or in some way.
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Q: So now I do regret what I said about George. Even though a lot of his little freak accident reports seem trivial to me, nothing could be as bad as the war mongering I heard last night. Again, I don’t know what to do. I guess I’ll pray for the world. And for God and for people. I don’t know what next will happen in Art’s story. So far, it’s been so regrettable — at least, that’s my view.
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Q: I wonder if people like Art realize that all this talk of war and all this money — the billions spent on the military here in the United States gives a very clear message to the world, encouraging them to bolster their own defenses and military and weapons of mass destruction in a vicious, never-ending circle. And, of course, wars are linked to the sustained success of the military industrial complex. So what I’ll be doing is transcribing and adding more tapes soon. All the calls that I’ve heard so far with maybe an exception really tell you a lot, if you know how Spirit works.
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Q: I also was reflecting on something else I didn’t like in my call. At least I didn’t sound crazy. It wasn’t quite as bad altogether as I thought for a while. But also when I (“MM”) made that remark about “bar-eljon” sounding like ‘alien’ — I mean that was sort of ridiculous. It just shows how difficult I find the whole alien visitation area, having so few of my own experiences in a meaningful way with aliens. I’ve had the dreams. The last time, I heard the humming which suggested a visitation of some sort but I have no idea what that meant. It might have been a metaphor even. It might have been a joke. I don’t think so. Do we all have aliens assigned to us? Anyway, obviously there’s a lot regarding aliens that suggest metaphors, good and bad. (“I MEAN”) Those people who channel aliens who say stupid things is an example of a bad metaphor. So I still am not certain what level — there are so many different levels of reality that aliens exist on. In dreams they can be used as metaphors. And yet there’s also a lot of evidence to suggest that there are actual visitations going on physically in the world, not that it’s something that I can say I’ve ever experienced myself. It’s definitely the most difficult area — one of the most difficult areas of the book. I went to the library yesterday and there’s very few books of interest in that small library (“NN”) near-by but I had to check out Colin Wilson’s Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors. I started reading it and he talks about heterosexuality and his experiences; and a co-incidence of a woman’s dress blowing up. I’ve only read a little bit. It will be interesting to see if he’s also as comfortable talking about his homosexuality impulses.
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Q: Well I (or “WELL I”) — as I was working on the Tape #750 transcript, I thought that some of the anecdotes (“WELL”) interesting when you can hear it because of the tones of the people’s voices. Reading the transcript leaves something to be desired. Some of the subjects really were not that striking because you hear similar things all the time on “Coast to Coast.” Anyway, as I was typing the unattributed sounds I realized I was hitting a lot of the Z key instead of the X key by accident, which is unusual for me. But then I realized that maybe Mighael was trying to say that these — this part is boring. So I went through and I edited out the calls that I didn’t think were spot-on to what I’m trying to convey. So one of the things I think I’ve learned during this project is that words with C and T often produce a sound not unlike an unattributed sound. “Too. Too. Too. Cliche. Cliche. Cliche.” Just to give you an example. I don’t know what this means: if I should keep it in the transcripts where I’ve marked unattributed sounds next to Cs and Ts. I don’t know exactly how to handle this.
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Q: So I listened to this last journal entry and there were some cases of the C sound and maybe the T sound not having the noises.
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: LISTENING TO THE SIX WORDS OF MY TEST WITH THE DICTAPHONE VOICE PROCESSER MICROCASSETTE TRANSCRIPTION MACHINE, THERE WERE OVERLAPPING PERCUSSIVE SOUNDS.)
Q: So now let me try a word I just heard an unattributed sound on. “Journal. Journal. Journal.” So I listened to what I just said and the last time I said journal (more slowly each time) didn’t have as prominent a sound to the pronunciation of the ‘J’ but there was an unattributed sound still there. So I guess Cs and Ts and Js can create sounds like unattributed sounds. “A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.”
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: THE FOLLOWING LETTERS HAD OVERLAPPING SOUNDS UPON LISTENING TO THE TAPE ON MY DICTAPHONE TRANSCRIBING MACHINE: A, C, D, G, K, P, Q, T. THERE WERE ALSO UNATTRIBUTED SOUNDS PRECEDING E, I, V AND Y.)
Q: So listening to that. “C T G J K P Q.”
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Q: So it’s not just the C but it’s the CL sound that can be problematic. “C.” And I’m sure there are many more similar ones.
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Q: But then I just heard some noises not clearly linked with any letter. Right now I simply don’t know what to do with my transcripts.
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Q: “Transcript.”
(TRANSCRIBER”S NOTE: THERE WERE TWO OVERLAPPING SOUNDS HEARD DURING MY REITERATION OF THIS WORD.)
Q: So phonetics is a very complex science — about as complex as all the other ones. I’ll have to think about it later.
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Q: “C.” (louder:) “C.” (Farther away from tape recorder:) “C. (or spirit message: “C”) C.”
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: THERE WAS NO OVERLAPPING SOUND DURING THE THIRD RECITATION OF “C” AS ‘KA’ [VOICE APPARENTLY FARTHEST AWAY FROM THE TAPE RECORDER] UNLESS THIS THIRD RECITATION IS A SPIRIT MESSAGE AS THIS IS THE ONLY ONE OF THE FOUR INSTANCES THAT THE VOICE TONE ISN’T RECOGNIZABLE AS WITHIN MY USUAL RANGE.)
Q: So I’ll listen to some portions of the tapes I’ve already double-checked. What I think I’ll do is just put a note saying that some letters and letter combinations seem to create consistent sounds like unattributed sounds; however, many sounds do not show such a consistent correlation so in the transcripts I identify clear sounds, some of which may be linked to particular letter arrangements. Yet many are not so this needs more study obviously.
(TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: AS THE RESULT OF COMPUTER PROBLEMS, I EVENTUALLY LOST THE TRANSCRIPT OF TAPE #750 AND DECIDED TO ADD JUST AN EXCERPT.)
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