Episode Details

Art Bell welcomes Alex Heard, editor at Wired Magazine and author of Apocalypse Pretty Soon, a book exploring American subcultures driven by millennial and utopian visions of transformation. Heard describes years spent embedded with groups ranging from Christian pre-millennialists awaiting biblical prophecy to libertarians planning artificial island nations in the Pacific. He discusses Jerry Falwell's recent claim that the Antichrist is alive on Earth and likely a Jewish male, placing it in the historical context of Antichrist theorizing from Nero to Ronald Reagan.

The conversation shifts to longevity research and the unsettling patent filed by lawyer Chet Fleming for a device to keep a severed human head alive on a console. Heard connects this to Dr. Robert White's monkey head transplant experiments and raises the question of who would deserve or want such preservation. Art notes that the technology may already be closer than most people realize and speculates that private labs could be conducting such work in secret.

Heard shares his experience at the Monroe Institute attempting out-of-body travel and his research into earth changes prophecies from figures like Lori Toye and Gordon Michael Scallion. A ghost photograph arrives mid-broadcast from Canton, Michigan, which Art scans and posts to his website in real time, prompting an on-air call with the photographer.