May 30, 2003: Time Traveler Line - Open Lines
Callers range from a self-described time traveler named Steve who claims an entity guided him through the stars nightly for 52 years, allowing him to profit 121 percent in the stock market, to a woman named Nunchie who describes a near-death experience where she met lines of every person who ever lived. A caller named Cross reports being taken to the year 2045 by an individual named Malachi, describing a world without technology where humans communicate telepathically after contact with a higher being.
Other callers discuss shadow people visible to horses, the Vatican Observatory's true purpose, an old eight-millimeter film that triggered a time-displacement experience, and the mysterious DC voltage on Art's giant antenna. A retired electrical engineer explains that similar voltage phenomena were observed at military low-frequency transmitter sites during World War II, pointing toward atmospheric energy collection on a grand scale.
Key Moments
Premise: if time travel is possible, they're already here: Art frames the night's signature line: if time travel ever becomes possible in the future, then time travelers would already be here now - either vacationing, or here to change things.
Steve on the yacht: 121% returns from time travel: A caller named Steve claims an entity took him forward in time night after night, letting him see future markets - and that he made 121% interest during the bear market and now lives on a yacht.
The SEC time-traveler defense: Art recounts a then-circulating story about a man caught for insider trading whose defense was that he was a time traveler, having made impossibly profitable trades.
Cross visits the year 2045: telepathic, post-technology humans: Caller Cross says he was taken by an entity named Malachi to the year 2045 - a tribal, technology-free world where humans communicate telepathically, the change brought about by some higher being touching humanity.