In this all-Open Lines show, Art hoped to avoid politics even though he opens the program talking about the upcoming 1996 presidential election. Art talked about a Cuban agent who got on the US FBI payroll to the tune of $6,000, and commented that it was a strange deal but also funny. He also discussed the "V-chip," which was designed to block mature television content for children.

Calls started coming in during the second half of the first hour. Topics included: presidential candidate Steve Forbes, a major CA flood, a live eyewitness UFO encounter near Portland, using mind power to eliminate dictators, The Quickening, a failed experiment to produce electricity in space by dragging a satellite at the end of a tether, Videan (early video phone technology), a NOVA program debunking UFO researcher John Mack (which Art called "a hatchet job"), immortality and Mormonism, a fanciful future eulogy for Art, and a dangerous swine fever in Indonesia.