About this episode
Art Bell concludes the Annual Predictions Show tradition on New Year's Eve 2003, ringing in 2004 while collecting final predictions from listeners as midnight travels across time zones worldwide. This special edition captures the unique atmosphere of a changing year, with callers making their most thoughtful predictions about major events expected to occur during 2004. The show emphasizes the experimental nature of collective prediction-making, encouraging listeners to tap into their intuitive abilities and share genuine insights about the future. Art Bell explains the numbering system used to catalog each prediction for later verification and discusses the importance of making specific, measurable forecasts rather than vague generalizations. The conversation acknowledges the challenges of predicting the future while celebrating the human desire to understand what lies ahead. Callers contribute diverse predictions about political events, natural disasters, technological developments, and social changes anticipated in the new year. This culminating show of the prediction series creates a comprehensive record of listener expectations and intuitive insights as 2003 transitions into 2004.