From the Southeast Asian capital city of the Philippines, Manila, I'm Art Bell, and this is Coast to Coast A.M.

I bid you all good evening, good morning, good afternoon, whatever it may be, and whatever time zone you're residing in, every single one of them covered by this program, Coast to Coast A.M.

Great to be here, an honor, and a privilege to be escorting you through the Coast A.M. Great to be here an honor and a privilege to be escorting you

through the Coast weekend. And an interesting one, it's going to be, just for reference,

for those who have not checked, Dr. Roger Lear tonight, Dr. or make that, Sir Charles Schultz

the third, tomorrow night. So it's going to be

a very interesting

weekend. We will

in a moment look at the world news.

Always a depressing thing

to do. But first, the

webcam tonight, if you want to

take a look, see, is

an interesting one. Bob and Sue Crane.

The Sea Cranes, if you will, came to visit me this last week, or the tail end.

Actually, they just left this morning and took off for the States, but they were here for a couple of days.

And we took a couple of trips and had some fun,

and there's a photograph of myself and Bob and Sue Crane.

And the one taking the picture, of course, and not in it, is Aaron,

who is doing okay for those who are asking.

Morning sickness prevails, but other than that, she is doing just great.

Myself, on the other hand, well, I'm in the throes of really, really, really quitting smoking,

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