Art Bell opens the phone lines for an all-topics evening and designates a special line for callers to share their worst dating experiences. Listeners recount tales of forgotten concert tickets, disastrous blind dates, jealous roommates, and being thrown out on Christmas Eve in a Montana snowstorm. Art also discusses the Clinton impeachment trial, Y2K preparedness letters from Nevada Power, and a Yale astronomer warning that sun-like stars can produce catastrophic super flares.
Between the dating horror stories, callers weigh in on internet stock valuations, the New World Order, and a creative proposal to place a giant sun filter in orbit to control Earth's climate. Art shares news of El Nino's unexpected persistence, fire ant invasions in Southern California, and FEMA officials urging communities to prepare for potential Y2K disruptions. A caller from Canada reports that military reserves have been denied leave through March 2000 for possible riot control duties.
The broadcast moves freely between the lighthearted and the serious as callers debate why humans have not returned to the moon, whether the Ouija board is dangerous, and what it means when Canadian authorities prepare for civil unrest over Y2K while their citizens remain famously calm.
