The from the high desert at the great american southwest i've been you all good evening

good morning good afternoon wherever you may be across the cosmos the weekend has arrived

as of I.

Howdy?

I'm Art Bell.

It is my honor and privilege to be with you,

escorting you through the weekend of Talk Radio.

Oh, and oh, it's going to be quite something.

Tomorrow night, we are going to devote entirely to open lines. Now, you know how that goes. Literally,

anything can be and should be expected, I might add. So totally open lines tomorrow night.

We may or may not decide to have a theme. I've been doing that for years.

If I think of something I really, really want to squeeze from all of you,

I'll develop some kind of theme, and I'm open to any ideas, as usual.

There is a universe of them out there.

All right.

Let's look quickly at what's occurring in the world, shall we?

Depressing as that usually is. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, Saturday,

urged the president to stand up and stop what he's calling personal attacks over his combat

record Vietnam. I'm sure you've heard about this by now, right?

As a fundraiser attended by about 750, Kerry said the attacks by a group of Vietnam vets

and former swift boat commanders have intensified because in the last months they've seen me climbing

in America's understanding that, well, I know how to fight smarter and more effective wars against terrorism.

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