Space and Time

Anyhow, the first time I heard Coast to Coast, I was about 18 or 19 years old, unable to sleep, and skipping up and down the AM dial, looking for something to distract me from my interminable boredom and solitude. That night, Bell was talking to LSD guru Timothy Leary about Leary's recent experiments with DMT, and as soon as I had heard enough to have even a vague idea of what they were talking about, I got chills. When you are a paranoid teenage insomniac, sitting in the dark and attempting to navigate the unfamiliar terrain of AM radio, this is exactly what you hope to find: something surreal and otherworldly.