The conversation shifts to longevity research and the unsettling patent filed by lawyer Chet Fleming for a device to keep a severed human head alive on a console. Heard connects this to Dr. Robert White's monkey head transplant experiments and raises the question of who would deserve or want such preservation. Art notes that the technology may already be closer than most people realize and speculates that private labs could be conducting such work in secret.
Heard shares his experience at the Monroe Institute attempting out-of-body travel and his research into earth changes prophecies from figures like Lori Toye and Gordon Michael Scallion. A ghost photograph arrives mid-broadcast from Canton, Michigan, which Art scans and posts to his website in real time, prompting an on-air call with the photographer.
Key Moments
Falwell, Nostradamus, and the Antichrist hotline: Heard explains Apocalypse Pretty Soon as a tour of American subcultures convinced the existing order is in for a violent or peaceful transformation. Art and Heard work through Jerry Falwell's claim the Antichrist is alive and Jewish, Dolores Cannon's Egypt-based Antichrist channeled from Nostradamus, and Art's own Antichrist phone line that lit up all night with self-identifying candidates.
Build-your-own-country subcultures: Heard traces how he fell into the subculture beat: a man at a conservative conference selling pamphlets on starting your own country, Erwin Strauss's history of 1960s and 70s atoll-building schemes, the Atlantis Project's floating island, Prince Lazarus Long's artificial Caribbean island from Tulsa, and the New Island Creation Consortium in Los Angeles, which planned to grow a South Pacific island via electrified seawater coral accretion.
Wilhelm Reich, Stanley Meyer, and the free-energy martyr myth: Heard concedes the U.S. government can be a bully, citing Wilhelm Reich, who was jailed and had his books banned by the FDA. He understands why an inventor today might fear assassination, but pushes back: when free-energy claimants like Ohio's Stanley Meyer die of ordinary heart attacks, believers automatically read hidden meaning into the death.