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The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

August 19, 2019 — Nigel Watson with J. Randall Murphy

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

News, Society & Culture, Science

3.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2018

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

Coming August 19 on The Paracast (www.theparacast.com): Gene and weekly cohost J. Randall Murphy present Nigel Watson, who has researched and investigated historical and contemporary reports of UFO sightings since the 1970s. He is the author of such books as "Portraits of Alien Encounters" (VALIS, 1990), "Phantom Aerial Flaps and Waves" (VALIS, 1990), "Supernatural Spielberg" (with Darren Slade, VALIS, 1992), editor/writer of "The Scareship Mystery: A Survey of Phantom Airship Scares, 1909-1918" (DOMRA, 2000) "The UFO Investigations Manual" (Haynes, 2013), and "UFOs of the First World War" (The History Press, 2015). He has also written for numerous books, publications and websites, including Magonia, Paranormal Magazine, Fortean Times, Wired, Flipside, How It Works, All About Space, Fate, Strange Magazine, Beyond, History Today, Aquila, Alien Worlds, UniLad, The Unexplained, Flying Saucer Review, UFO Magazine India and UFO Magazine (USA).

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0:00.0

You're in the Paracast.

0:10.0

You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.

0:27.9

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

0:31.6

As usual in the last few weeks, every time we do a brand new episode of the Paracast, we have weird things happening

0:39.1

with Skype. And there are two versions of Skype that are currently active. There's a Skype 8,

0:44.3

and there's a Skype 7. What happens here with Skype 8 is that a lot of things don't work on it.

0:51.0

You get bad connections. You can't use normal features. So we use something called

0:55.7

Skype 7.5 or something thereabouts. And that is considered a classic version of Skype, which is why

1:04.0

I call it that way, it's 7.5.8 for the Mac. And what Microsoft is going to do, at least they're

1:09.7

trying to do something which is decent, which is a rare thing in terms of software. What Microsoft is going to do is continue to

1:17.0

offer the older versions of Skype for a while so people like us who want to do real radio shows

1:22.9

and have really solid connections can do it. That's about as much technology as we do here.

1:29.3

Our technology show The Tech Night Now Live will possibly cover this in more detail in the next episode.

1:35.7

In the meantime, Randall is our weekly co-host again, Jay Randall Murphy.

1:41.6

And we welcome Nigel Watson from the UK.

1:47.4

Hi. Hello.

1:49.2

I just wonder with the way the politics are going,

1:51.7

whether the UK even wants to talk to Americans anymore.

1:55.8

Oh, yeah.

1:56.7

Yeah, it is a bit of a minefield, to say the least.

2:01.4

I suppose a lot of it is because of Donald Trump's tweets,

2:06.1

which seem to get people fired up about things.

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