November 30, 2001: Open Lines
The program covers a wide range of topics as callers discuss the war in Afghanistan, immigration policy, the ethics of human cloning, and the newly revealed Segway scooter, which Art finds disappointing compared to the hype surrounding it. Several callers debate whether cloned humans would possess souls, and one listener firmly states she would refuse a cloned organ even on her deathbed. A photograph of magician David Blaine apparently levitating on a Las Vegas sidewalk generates heated debate about whether the feat is genuine or an optical illusion.
Art previews a packed upcoming week featuring discussions on Atlantis, the paranormal in Asheville, a near-death experience survivor, and a UFO conversation with Dan Aykroyd. A caller shares a chilling encounter with a Bigfoot-like creature while using the woods as a restroom in rural New Hampshire.
Key Moments
Would you take a clone heart to live?: Art presses a caller with an ethics test: if you were dying and offered a guaranteed-not-to-be-rejected heart from a clone, would you accept it? She refuses on principle, and Art doubts most people would say the same when their own death is on the line.
Mother and son woken in the same dream: A caller describes dreaming of paranormal activity in his terminally ill mother's room and yelling 'Mom!' at 7:30 AM, then bringing her breakfast and learning she had just dreamed him standing over her shouting the same word at the same time.
Lesson of the Nephilim: A caller imagines a future of soulless cloned laborers carrying the mark of the beast; Art warns that creating beings for our pleasure and leisure may invite the lesson of the Nephilim, and tells listeners that very quiet labs may already be doing it now.