From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be across the planet.

All these different time zones covered like a blanket by this program, coast to coast a.m., I'm Art Bell.

It is my honor and my privilege to be escorting you through this half of the weekend.

Actually, I had planned to escort you through yesterday.

However, we really, my poor wife, what a greeting she has had to the United States.

It's absolutely amazing what's going on.

Actually, do you hear that noise? That's amazing, too. I have no idea what that noise is, but it's not good. It seems to be resonating with my voice, too. How unusual is that? I've got a noise that's actually resonating with my voice.

Every time I talk, it goes berserk.

That is really strange.

What in the world could that be?

I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what.

I'll tell you what.

Let's take a break and see if we can solve this during the break, and we'll be right back.

It seems to be the night of gremlins, folks.

This is an actual physical noise that I've got here.

Let me tell you what happened yesterday before I go into what's happening tonight.

Yesterday in Pemup at 3 a.m., the power went out across the entire valley.

A 320 kilovolt power line this noise is resonating with my voice guys um a 320 kilo volt line that comes from las vegas and feeds perump went down the line

actually hit the ground and so the entire Perum Valley lost power.

Now, we didn't retrieve power for about 17 hours, maybe 18 hours.

And this going on at a time when, well, for example, the temperature outside right now is about 16 degrees

here in Burump. And this noise is incredible. And that's what I am using, guys. They're telling me to

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