from the other side of the world.

That's right, the other side of the world.

Southeast Asia, the other side of the world from certainly the majority of all of you.

The capital city of the Philippines, Manila.

Good evening, good morning, good afternoon, whatever it may be, wherever you are.

I'm Art Bell, and this is coast-to-coast AM, the largest program of its sort in the world.

It is my pleasure and honor to be escorting you through the weekend, and it will be a weekend full of surprises.

That's for sure, and I'm going to begin with one right at the top of the program.

The webcam shot tonight, that's Arts Webcam.

You'll see it listed in the upper left-hand side of the Coastcoast-A.m.com website.

It says Arts Webcam. Just click on that.

If it has gone through properly, you will see a picture of Aaron, that's my wife, in Hong Kong.

And we were in Hong Kong the week of the 13th of September.

Now, that's an interesting date for a number of reasons, primarily I would say, because

that's when Aaron got pregnant.

I just, here's the way it went, folks.

Yeah, I'm going to be a daddy.

Last week, literally, as I walked out of the studio after the show, this was all very early and very much a surprise.

Well, we could let me start, go back a week prior to that.

We had some suspicions that it could or might or was hoped to be true.

And so we went out and got a test you know one of those pregnancy

tests you get here in the Philippines no you wouldn't know about those would you I guess the same

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