December 31, 2008: Predictions 2009 Part 2
Dec 31, 2008
2h 35m
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Art Bell continues the annual Predictions tradition on New Year's Eve, reviewing more 2008 predictions before opening the lines for part two of listener forecasts. He hands out bonks for missed calls on a Florida breakaway and Osama bin Laden ending jihad, while acknowledging a hit on BlackBerry achieving two billion in sales. Art notes the audience collectively sensed the 2008 economic crash before it happened.
As midnight approaches across American time zones, callers phone in with forecasts ranging from auto production cut in half to all world currencies losing value simultaneously. A truck driver from Kansas predicts America will turn its back on Israel. A caller from Alabama foresees the United States breaking into regional countries, with only a reconstituted Confederacy based in Atlanta surviving. Financial predictions dominate, with one caller foreseeing severe deflation rolling prices back to 1967 levels.
Among the more unusual predictions, a caller forecasts meteorites falling like hailstones in February, while another predicts the beginning of Mayan calendar end-time events. A caller from Arizona predicts armed rebellion, declaring the government no longer follows the Constitution. Art maintains his firm stance against wishes and political speeches, seeking only genuine psychic impressions as 2009 begins.
As midnight approaches across American time zones, callers phone in with forecasts ranging from auto production cut in half to all world currencies losing value simultaneously. A truck driver from Kansas predicts America will turn its back on Israel. A caller from Alabama foresees the United States breaking into regional countries, with only a reconstituted Confederacy based in Atlanta surviving. Financial predictions dominate, with one caller foreseeing severe deflation rolling prices back to 1967 levels.
Among the more unusual predictions, a caller forecasts meteorites falling like hailstones in February, while another predicts the beginning of Mayan calendar end-time events. A caller from Arizona predicts armed rebellion, declaring the government no longer follows the Constitution. Art maintains his firm stance against wishes and political speeches, seeking only genuine psychic impressions as 2009 begins.