The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell returns from an 18-day journey through Greece, the Greek islands, Israel, Rome, and Egypt, dedicating the broadcast to recounting his extraordinary experiences. The centerpiece is his visit to Giza, where Director of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass granted him unrestricted access to the entire plateau, including areas normally closed to visitors.Art describes watching a single worker split a five-ton granite block with only a sledgehammer in two minutes, which Hawass presented as proof of ancient construction methods. Inside the Great Pyramid, Art climbed to the King's Chamber and lay in the sarcophagus, experiencing what he describes as a deep, unmistakable vibrational resonance unlike anything he had ever encountered. He also visited the Sphinx excavation site and a then-undisclosed burial ground containing hundreds of graves of pyramid workers, complete with pristine hieroglyphics.Beyond Egypt, Art recounts seeing Pope John Paul II at the Vatican by pure chance, touching the birthplace of Christ in Bethlehem and the site of the crucifixion in Jerusalem, sneaking into the closed Colosseum in Rome, and making what he believes was the first live radio broadcast from the base of the Great Pyramid using a satellite phone.

Art Bell sits down with physicist Bob Lazar and his longtime friend Gene Huff for a rare and detailed interview about Lazar's work back-engineering extraterrestrial craft at a facility called S-4, located roughly 15 miles south of Area 51 in the Nevada desert. Lazar recounts how a chance meeting with Edward Teller at Los Alamos National Laboratory eventually led to his recruitment for the classified project.Lazar describes the extensive security protocols he encountered, including signing away constitutional rights, submitting to phone monitoring, and undergoing allergen testing for exotic materials. He recalls walking past a sleek, saucer-shaped craft he dubbed the "sport model," initially believing it to be an advanced American fighter due to a small American flag sticker on its hull. He later learned the facility housed nine craft of varying designs, all sharing identical reactor and propulsion systems, with his assignment focused solely on understanding the power and propulsion technology.A surprise call from Stan Deyo in Perth, Australia, who claims his own recruitment by Teller into a related anti-gravity research program, adds an unexpected layer. Deyo describes a secretive organization operating since the 1950s on dozens of propulsion-related projects.

Art Bell speaks with bestselling author Guy Finley about what Finley calls the "intimate enemy," the internal psychological nature that keeps people trapped in cycles of reactive behavior. Finley, raised in a Hollywood show business family, describes how witnessing unhappiness among the wealthy and famous launched his lifelong study of self-development and higher consciousness.The conversation becomes a spirited philosophical debate as Art pushes back against Finley's position that anger is always a destructive force. Art argues passionately for the existence of "rational anger," sharing personal stories of seeking constructive revenge against those who wronged him, including someone whose negligence killed his beloved dog. Finley counters that negative emotional states possess people rather than serve them, comparing destructive thoughts to a shark offering a friendly ride. Callers join the discussion, including a law enforcement officer who bridges both perspectives.Later in the program, Art's wife Ramona comes on to share practical overseas travel tips ahead of their upcoming trip to Egypt, Greece, Israel, and Rome, advising listeners on packing strategies and what to leave behind.

Art Bell hosts theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku of the City University of New York for a far-reaching conversation about the scientific breakthroughs awaiting humanity over the next century. Drawing from interviews with 150 top scientists, including six Nobel laureates, Kaku outlines coming revolutions in genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and space exploration.Kaku describes the recent isolation of genes linked to cellular aging, including telomerase, and predicts that within 20 years gene therapy could allow patients to receive injections that correct hereditary diseases. He envisions human lifespans potentially doubling to 200 years as organs become replaceable through cellular regeneration. On computing, he forecasts invisible, ubiquitous intelligence embedded in walls, furniture, and clothing within two decades, with human-level machine consciousness emerging within 50 to 100 years.The discussion turns to Kardashev's civilization scale, where humanity rates as Type 0 and faces the critical challenge of reaching Type 1 without destroying itself. Kaku explains string theory, wormholes, and the energy requirements for interdimensional travel, noting that Einstein's equations technically permit time travel for sufficiently advanced civilizations.

Art Bell welcomes reverse speech researcher David John Oates, calling in from Anchorage, Alaska, for an evening of startling audio reversals found hidden in human speech. Oates explains his theory that the brain constructs two simultaneous messages when speaking: one forward from the conscious mind, and one in reverse from the unconscious.The session features reversals from public figures including Mike Tyson, whose apology after the ear-biting incident yields a childlike phrase a caller later identifies as old boxing slang for "punch drunk." Queen Elizabeth's speech following Princess Diana's death produces unsettling reversals suggesting the royal family views the tragedy as politically convenient. President Clinton's tobacco regulation announcement contains a reversal about paying for drugs. Mark Fuhrman's reversals reveal unexpected compassion toward gang members rather than the hostility many anticipated.Oates also analyzes the famous frantic Area 51 caller who knocked the show off the air, finding three high-confidence reversals. Children's speech reversals demonstrate the phenomenon appearing as early as four months of age, and Oates describes new software capable of detecting reversals by their unique tonal signature.

Art Bell welcomes filmmaker and documentarian Boris Said for a revealing conversation about the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, and his bitter falling out with the Schor Expedition. Said, the Emmy Award-winning producer of the NBC special The Mystery of the Sphinx, shares his theory that the Great Pyramid is not a tomb but a sophisticated scientific instrument tuned to the resonant frequency of the Earth itself.He describes sonic experiments conducted by NASA consultant Tom Danley inside the King's Chamber, where sub-audible vibrations below nine hertz were detected even in silence. When raised several octaves, these tones produced an F-sharp chord, a frequency that ancient Egyptian texts and Native American shamans alike associate with the Earth. Said proposes that the pyramid may have functioned as a means of inducing altered states of consciousness, possibly serving as a gateway to other dimensions.Said also details ground-penetrating radar confirmation of a rectangular chamber beneath the Sphinx's paws and his discovery of a polished black granite sarcophagus lid inside a well shaft near the causeway. He explains how the Schor Foundation's revoked permit and a controlling Fox Network contract led to the suppression of this footage and his decision to finally speak publicly.

Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for his first appearance in over a year, along with open lines and updates on Dannion Brinkley's worsening medical condition. Scallion recounts the traumatic 1979 event that launched his career as a visionary, when he lost his voice during a business presentation and began receiving vivid holographic visions of ancient cities, future catastrophes, and a mysterious female figure who told him he had entered the time stream.Scallion explains how years of performing thousands of medical-intuitive readings drained his health, forcing him into a year of recovery and the completion of his book, Notes from the Cosmos. He describes his system of seeing three possible futures, with the brightest and most vivid image representing the most probable outcome. Six weeks before this broadcast, however, he saw only one vision remaining for the first time, with the other two possibilities gone entirely.His trance source revealed that an internal pole shift occurred around mid-July 1997, the third such event since the 1930s. Scallion warns this shift will cause rising ocean temperatures far beyond a normal El Nino, satellite and aircraft electronic failures from magnetic pulses, and the beginning of tectonic disruptions leading into 1998.

Art Bell sits down with Major Ed Dames of PsyTech for a packed evening covering the Phoenix Lights, Comet Hale-Bopp, remote viewing, and dire predictions for the near future. Dames presents his controversial conclusion that the March 1997 Phoenix Lights were a laser-generated hoax orchestrated by a television network seeking ratings, claiming his remote viewers found no physical structure in the sky above the city.The conversation takes a darker turn as Dames outlines what his technical remote viewing team has identified as coming threats. He describes a cylinder that separated from Hale-Bopp carrying a plant pathogen expected to impact equatorial Africa, killing green plant life for roughly four years. He also predicts the next use of a nuclear weapon will occur on the Korean Peninsula, delivered by missile from the North against the South, followed by a reactor-based incident in northern Spain.Dames recommends chlorella and earthworms as survival food sources for the difficult years ahead and discusses global economic collapse, severe weather tied to El Nino, and the spiritual dimensions he has encountered through years of remote viewing research into the collective unconscious.

Art Bell welcomes medium James Van Praagh for a wide-ranging conversation about psychic ability, life after death, and communication with the spirit world. The episode opens with a replay of the previous night's extraordinary moment when a frantic Area 51 caller was cut off as the broadcast satellite lost Earth lock, an event GE AmeriCom confirmed had never occurred before.Van Praagh describes how his mediumistic abilities emerged in his early twenties and explains his work as a survival evidence medium, bringing through specific names, places, and details from the deceased that he could not otherwise know. He discusses the nature of the soul, reincarnation, different spiritual levels, and what happens during a life review after death. He shares his view that the fear of death is humanity's greatest obstacle and that understanding the spirit world would transform how people treat one another.The conversation touches on ghosts, suicide, electronic communication with the dead through instrumental transcommunication, and Van Praagh's personal encounter with non-human intelligences near Sedona, Arizona. Callers ask about trapped spirits, the afterlife, and whether prayer truly reaches the other side.

Art Bell opens a special phone line for current and former Area 51 employees willing to share their secrets. The evening begins with a heartfelt hospital room interview with Dannion Brinkley, who describes his battle with three brain aneurysms and the healing power of prayer and love he received from listeners during his crisis.Callers on the Area 51 line deliver a range of extraordinary claims. One self-described former employee says he lived at the S4 facility and was ordered to disclose information about recovered craft from parallel timelines, a planet called Lanulos, and revelations planned for July 1998. Another caller claims to be a time traveler from the year 2072, when Area 51 serves as the relocated national capital following catastrophic events around the turn of the century.Art fields calls from across the country, including a listener who describes secret satellite dish installations in Morocco and another who proposes trick questions to verify real Area 51 workers. The evening blends sincere emotional moments with some of the most outlandish caller claims in the history of the program.

Art Bell opens with encouraging news that Dannion Brinkley's three brain aneurysms have stopped bleeding and surgery may no longer be necessary. He credits the prayers of listeners and discusses CNN's recent reporting on the power of prayer, noting that placebos work 70 to 90 percent of the time through faith alone. Art also announces that his book "The Quickening" has debuted at number 22 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and number six on the business list.Callers respond to the previous night's program about Bell Labs and Roswell. A listener shares a story from a former NASA instructor who said the leap from vacuum tubes to microchips was not invented but "deciphered" with "a little help from above." Art breaks news from an underground source that the American Chemical Society, meeting in Las Vegas, plans to reveal that the U.S. leaked significant radiation during underground nuclear testing in Nevada, with the Department of Energy expected to confirm it.Frances Barwood calls in to announce she has won her recall election with 47 percent of the vote, defeating two opponents despite being outspent five to one. Art retells his own close encounter with a massive, silent, triangular craft that passed roughly 100 feet above him in the Pahrump Valley. He dedicates the final hour exclusively to Canadian callers in celebration of the show's rapid expansion across Canada.

Art Bell assembles a panel to examine new evidence connecting Roswell to modern technology. Linda Moulton Howe reports on a former Bell Labs consultant who claims the transistor was not invented through normal research but was back-engineered from technology recovered at the 1947 Roswell crash site. The consultant asserts the Army delivered alien switching devices made of silicon and arsenic to Bell Labs in September 1947 and that a cover story was manufactured under President Truman's orders.The consultant corroborates retired Army Colonel Philip Corso's account of extraterrestrial technology transfers to American defense contractors. He describes two delta-shaped craft retrieved near Roswell, one damaged and approximately 40 feet across, the other intact at 76 feet. A 1961 eyewitness named Devin Ryan reports seeing a similar wedge-shaped craft and three transparent-skinned beings with six fingers at Area 51.Phoenix Councilwoman Frances Barwood discusses a photograph published in the Arizona Republic on July 9, 1947, showing a wedge-shaped craft over Phoenix taken by aircraft identifier William Rhodes. She reveals the FBI confiscated his negatives and never returned them. Barwood faces a recall election the next day for asking questions about the 1997 Phoenix Lights. UFO lobbyist Stephen Bassett and Richard C. Hoagland argue that her case represents a political turning point for the disclosure movement.

Art Bell welcomes back engineer and author Albert Taylor, whose book "Soul Traveler" is being developed into a feature film by four major studios. Taylor, who helped design the stealth fighter, the B-1 bomber, and components for the International Space Station, describes his lifelong out-of-body experiences and explains how sleep paralysis serves as a gateway to conscious soul travel. He offers practical techniques for listeners struggling to break through the fear barrier.Taylor describes verifying his experiences by visiting colleagues and accurately describing details of their homes he had never physically seen. He explains that the soul can perceive physical reality, pass through walls, and travel at speeds far beyond light. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when Taylor discusses astral sex, describing sensations ten times more intense than anything physical. Art admits he has experienced sleep paralysis many times but has never been able to let go of the fear and cross over.Taylor also recounts a troubling experience with time travel in which he witnessed his own future marital breakdown, which later came to pass despite his efforts to prevent it. He warns listeners that seeing the future carries emotional risks. The program opens with updates on Dannion Brinkley recovering from three brain aneurysms and the passing of Mother Teresa.

Art Bell sits down with retired LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman to discuss his 20-year career in law enforcement and his book "Murder in Brentwood." Fuhrman shares candid reflections on working gangs in the late 1970s, watching crack cocaine transform street crime, and the emotional toll of two decades on the force. He describes the dark humor that sustains officers and the crisis point where many decide whether to stay or leave the job.The conversation turns to the O.J. Simpson case, where Fuhrman recounts discovering key evidence at both the Bundy and Rockingham crime scenes. He explains how the case was taken from his division by Robbery-Homicide detectives Lange and Vannatter, who he says failed to collect a bloody fingerprint on the rear gate and left critical evidence behind. Fuhrman addresses the perjury charge, the controversial tapes from a screenplay project, and reveals he passed a polygraph covering every allegation against him.Art and Fuhrman also discuss the NYPD plunger assault case, civilian concealed carry laws, the code of silence among officers, and whether TV cameras belong in courtrooms. Fuhrman argues that the Simpson trial was lost in the first 12 hours and that Judge Ito never controlled his courtroom. Callers press him on the case throughout the night.

Art Bell welcomes nurse-turned-advocate Joyce Riley, who presents declassified government documents about experimental vaccines given to Gulf War veterans without informed consent. Riley reveals that a Tri-Service Vaccine Task Force authorized untested immunizations, including an investigational cholera vaccine and hepatitis A vaccine, as part of what internal memos called a "Manhattan-like project" to evaluate vaccines in an operational setting.Riley shares her belief that squalene, an unapproved oil-based adjuvant found in the blood of 400 Gulf War veterans, points to a secret anti-AIDS vaccine experiment conducted on military personnel. She reports that 80 percent of affected veterans have transmitted the illness to family members and that 700,000 shot records have gone missing. Riley also discusses video evidence of U.S.-marked chemical weapons found inside Iraqi bunkers at Khamisiyah.In the final hours, Stan Deyo joins from Perth, Australia, to discuss alarming ocean warming patterns in the Pacific. He describes sea surface temperatures reaching 500 percent above the previous year and warns of coming crop failures and severe weather tied to what the UN calls potentially the most damaging El Nino event ever recorded.

Art Bell sits down with country music legend Merle Haggard for a freewheeling conversation that ranges from Princess Diana's death to UFO sightings, prison reform, and the changing American landscape. Haggard recounts his troubled youth, from riding freight trains at age eleven to landing in San Quentin at nineteen, where a cell next to death row inmate Caryl Chessman sparked a life-changing moment of clarity that set him on the path to becoming one of country music's all-time bestselling artists.The conversation shifts to the old days of Las Vegas when the mob kept order, Haggard's friendship with casino owner Benny Binion, and the time he lost $25,000 to a quick-handed hotel waiter during an Elvis show. Haggard shares his own UFO encounter near Vandenberg Air Force Base and his wife's sighting of five objects over the Colorado River during the Phoenix Lights period. He advocates for ending the drug war and legalizing marijuana, arguing that hemp could revitalize American farming.Art and Merle find common ground discussing strange weather patterns, the feeling that civilization is approaching a major turning point, and the mysterious booming sounds both hear regularly from the direction of Area 51.

Art Bell returns from a week-long vacation in Alaska to share photographs and stories from his trip before opening the phone lines. Callers weigh in on the death of Princess Diana, debating whether the paparazzi or the intoxicated driver bears primary responsibility for the crash. Art maintains that the driver, who had three times the legal blood alcohol limit and was traveling at roughly 121 miles per hour, is the most likely cause rather than the pursuing photographers.At midnight, Richard C. Hoagland and geologist Ron Nicks join the program to present new findings from Mars Pathfinder images. Nicks, a 35-year veteran of engineering geology, reports that features near the Pathfinder landing site display geometric patterns and orientations difficult to explain through natural geological processes. Hoagland describes what he calls artifacts, broken machines, and geometric debris scattered across the landscape at 19.5 degrees north latitude on Mars.The team raises concerns that NASA appears to be discarding half the gray-scale information from its publicly released images, with independent analyst Jim Diletoso confirming the observation. Hoagland theorizes the landing site sits within the debris field of ancient structures destroyed by catastrophic flooding.

This special Labor Day weekend compilation showcases some of the most memorable moments from the Art Bell archives. The program opens with a return visit from Mel, the Washington State man who claims to have a bottomless hole on his rural property near Ellensburg. Mel reports letting down over 80,000 feet of fishing line without hitting bottom, and shares local legends including a story about a dead dog thrown into the hole that was later seen alive wearing its original collar.The second hour features the classic call from a man identifying himself as a pilot flying a homebuilt Long-EZ aircraft directly into restricted Area 51 airspace. He describes searchlights, a scrambled F-16, and something rising from an underground elevator before the call cuts out abruptly. The program also includes segments on Bigfoot, with a caller named Dan from Missouri describing a nighttime encounter with a creature standing ten to twelve feet tall, accompanied by a blue ball of light.An update from Mel reveals he has signed a lucrative lease agreement for his property and plans to emigrate to Australia, with a stipulation that his remains be disposed of in the hole upon his death.

Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging conversation about ten-dimensional hyperspace, time travel, and the classification of civilizations in the universe. Dr. Kaku explains that humanity is a Type 0 civilization, still dependent on dead plants for energy, and describes how Type 1, 2, and 3 civilizations could harness planetary, stellar, and galactic power respectively.The discussion covers how higher dimensions could explain phenomena commonly associated with the paranormal, from objects passing through walls to instantaneous teleportation. Dr. Kaku describes black holes not as collapsed points but as spinning rings that could function as gateways to other regions of spacetime, providing the scientific basis for wormholes and stargates depicted in popular films like Contact and Stargate.Art and Dr. Kaku also examine the grandfather paradox of time travel, which quantum theory resolves through parallel universes that split like soap bubbles. They discuss self-replicating von Neumann probes as the logical method for advanced civilizations to explore the galaxy, the future of DNA manipulation, and whether humanity will survive its transition from Type 0 to Type 1.

Art Bell hosts a fiery debate between Richard C. Hoagland and filmmaker James Collier over one of the most provocative questions in American history: did we actually go to the moon? The program opens with a discussion of Pat Robertson's controversial remarks suggesting Biblical punishment for UFO believers, featuring commentary from journalist Skip Porteous and former 700 Club co-host Danuta Soderman.The main event pits Collier, who argues that photographic evidence proves the Apollo missions were faked, against Hoagland, who maintains the missions were real but that NASA concealed what astronauts found on the lunar surface. They clash over film technology, shadow angles, the famous rover rooster tail footage, and whether specialized Kodak film could survive lunar temperatures. Hoagland introduces his own twist, claiming some Apollo photographs were indeed staged in studios, not to fake the missions but to hide evidence of ancient structures on the moon.Art referees the rapid-fire exchanges, scoring rounds like a boxing match while pressing both guests for hard evidence. The debate produces no clear winner but raises sharp questions about photographic anomalies that neither side fully resolves.

Art Bell welcomes David Adair, a self-described child prodigy turned rocket scientist who claims he built an electromagnetic fusion containment engine at age 17. Adair recounts growing up in his father's machine shop, originally used for building race car engines for Lee Petty, where he constructed increasingly powerful rockets starting at age 12. His first liquid fuel rocket reached 80,000 feet, and his work eventually attracted the attention of Congressman John Ashbrook and retired General Curtis LeMay.Adair describes how his mathematical work on fusion containment fields paralleled the research of a young Stephen Hawking, whom he met at Ohio State University in 1969. With congressional funding and military authorization, he built a fusion engine and launched it from White Sands in June 1971, with the rocket redirected to land at Groom Lake. Upon arriving at the classified base, he was taken into the center hangar and lowered 200 feet underground on a massive elevator platform.In the subterranean facility, Adair says he was shown an engine identical to his own design but scaled to the size of a school bus. He discusses technology transfer from the space program to consumer products, criticizes NASA for the preventable Challenger disaster, and predicts artificial intelligence will soon transform civilization. Adair testified under oath before Congress on April 9, 1997, about recovered extraterrestrial hardware.

Art Bell hosts an open lines evening under a full moon, covering a wide range of news and listener calls. He opens with updates on the UPS strike settlement, ongoing troubles aboard the Mir space station where the main computer crashed during a resupply docking, and growing concerns about the volcano on Montserrat that British officials warn could produce a catastrophic eruption engulfing the entire island.Art announces a newly posted photograph of Area 51 on his website, calling it the best image he has ever seen of the classified facility. He also promotes the Rogue Market, an online stock trading game where listeners can invest fake money in media personalities, urging his audience to buy Art Bell stock and overtake Howard Stern and Don Imus. A caller from Altoona asks about his UFO sighting, and Art confirms he once saw one at close range, an encounter that sparked his intense interest in the subject.The evening takes a strange turn when Art reveals he has been contacted by surviving members of the Heaven's Gate group and may conduct an interview. A caller reports seeing an object speeding past the Mir space station from eastern Washington, leading Art to speculate about electromagnetic pulses and the mysterious computer failure aboard the station.

Art Bell presents a Dreamland broadcast featuring Linda Moulton Howe reporting on environmental crises and Dannion Brinkley discussing his recent encounters with Egyptian researchers. Linda covers the spreading threat of Pfiesteria, a toxic dinoflagellate devastating fish populations along the East Coast, with nearly 100 percent of juvenile menhaden in North Carolina rivers showing fatal sores. She also reports on worldwide ocean pollution, shark overfishing, and a massive El Nino forming across the Pacific.Dannion Brinkley recounts attending a conference with Dr. Zahi Hawass and Robert Bauval, describing their surprisingly cordial exchanges about ongoing discoveries at Giza. He shares his perception that Hawass knows more than he publicly reveals but believes his honesty and integrity would prevail if a major discovery were made. Dannion connects the unfolding archaeological revelations in Egypt, China, and South America to the return of what Edgar Cayce called Christ consciousness.Art shares a personal endorsement of Brinkley, confirming that Dannion sensed a crisis in his life from thousands of miles away without being told. Dannion discusses his ongoing health struggles from being struck by lightning twice and his work with dying veterans through his Twilight Brigade hospice program.

Art Bell speaks with Kathy Keeton, wife of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and co-founder of Omni magazine, about her battle with late-stage breast cancer. Diagnosed in 1995 with stage four cancer that had spread throughout her body, doctors gave her weeks to live and recommended chemotherapy with only a 20 percent chance of remission. Keeton refused conventional treatment and instead chose hydrazine sulfate, an inexpensive drug costing roughly three dollars per week.Keeton describes how within ten weeks of taking hydrazine sulfate, a major tumor wrapped around her aorta had completely disappeared. She explains that the drug works by redirecting nutrition back to the body and starving tumors, while requiring a strict diet that excludes certain amino acids, alcohol, and sleeping pills. She notes a 65 percent cure rate across 76 studies conducted over 17 years in Russia and advocates for an intravenous form to push effectiveness even higher.She criticizes the National Cancer Institute for suppressing information about the drug and urges listeners to seek details through Penthouse magazine or public libraries. Callers share their own experiences with alternative treatments while Keeton directs those interested to contact Dr. Joseph Gold in Syracuse for medical guidance.

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Wendy Lockwood, who claims firsthand knowledge of Atlantis through astral projection and decades of study in esoteric traditions. She describes Atlantis as a series of ten islands in the Atlantic that sank 50,000 years ago after a devastating war with Lemuria, and insists the lost continent is now beginning to rise, with the eruption of Montserrat serving as early evidence.Dr. Lockwood discusses the hollow earth theory, asserting she has visited the inner world through astral travel and encountered diverse races of beings living beneath the surface. She connects the Great Pyramids to Atlantean builders and describes them as portals to both the inner earth and other planets. Callers challenge her claims while others share their own encounters with underground phenomena, including the mysterious hum reported across the Southwest.In the second half, Mr. Fidget impossibly gets through the phone lines again from a Santa Cruz payphone, prompting a growing crowd of listeners to gather around him. A truck driver, a scoutmaster, and a local artist all verify his presence as he hands out fidgets and explains his philosophy of stress relief through tactile engagement.