The conversation turns personal as DeLouise describes his decades of psychic work, including contributions to the Sharon Tate murder case and the Chappaquiddick tragedy. He explains his belief that anyone can develop predictive abilities by turning inward rather than intellectualizing, though he warns that tools like the Ouija board can become dangerously obsessive. Art shares his own unsettling experience with an ancient Ouija board left for him anonymously at a Las Vegas radio station, calling it one of the few things he refuses to discuss on air.
Callers raise topics from the government's plan to develop a fungal agent to eradicate marijuana worldwide to earthquakes rumbling beneath Mount Hood in Oregon. DeLouise and Art agree that tampering with any species put on Earth by nature or a creator risks unintended and potentially catastrophic consequences.
Key Moments
Predicting the Silver Bridge collapse on the air: DeLouise tells the story that made him famous. Asked by a Chicago radio station for five predictions, he stared into a German crystal ball, saw a bridge going down south of Chicago in Ohio, and named 57 deaths from rush-hour overload. Three weeks later, after Thanksgiving 1967, the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River collapsed and killed exactly that many.
Are you seeing the future or creating it?: Art presses DeLouise on the deepest question in his line of work: whether naming a bridge disaster, plane crash, or specific death toll on the air actually causes those events rather than foresees them. DeLouise rejects the idea as insanity but recounts a college student who challenged him to predict good news instead, like marijuana legalization.