Art Bell opens with a brief update from Kathleen Keating on the firestorm surrounding her identification of the Antichrist, then reads a lengthy and unsettling letter from a man in North Vancouver who claims to hold that title himself. The show transitions to a conversation about the Mir space station's impending reentry and the mutant fungus growing aboard it that Russian scientists warn could pose a genuine biological threat upon reaching Earth.
In the second segment, journalist Brian Alexander from Wired Magazine joins to discuss his six-month investigation into human cloning. He explains that a true genetic copy is impossible due to mitochondrial DNA from the donor egg, that cloning may have already occurred accidentally during standard fertility procedures, and that infertile couples are the primary clients seeking this technology. Alexander warns that 95 to 97 percent of animal cloning attempts still end in failure.
Open lines round out the broadcast with callers weighing in on school shootings, the nature of evil, and the Alternative 3 broadcast. A caller from Hawaii shares a ghost encounter with his recently deceased grandfather, and Art fields questions about everything from ham radio to the prospect of interviewing the alleged Antichrist.
