Classic Episode: December 14, 2014 — Tricksters with George Hansen

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and Chris present cutting-edge theorist George Hansen, author of a trendsetting work, “The Trickster and the Paranormal,” a book that was instrumental in influencing Chris O'Brien's research and thinking process for his 2009 book "Stalking the Tricksters: Shapeshifters, Skinwalkers, Dark Adepts and 2012." Hansen has been a longtime paranormal researcher in academia, science and elsewhere. As he states at his site, "The paranormal encompasses everything from levitating monks to ESP, from spirits to cattle mutilations—an incredible and unsavory hodgepodge. The mix seems incoherent. But the trickster makes sense of it."

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:02.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:27.8	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:33.5	You know, it's an interesting here how old tech devices get to be so valuable.
0:40.3	You must have an iPod somewhere, Chris, don't you?
0:43.3	Not an actual iPod. I do have an MP3 player though that I'd never used.
0:47.3	Okay. The reason I mentioned that is because the iPod Classic,
0:57.8	which was the last iPod with 160 gigabyte,
1:01.2	fixed hard drive, mechanical hard drive.
1:05.6	Apple discontinued it after keeping it in production for about five years.
1:09.8	It sold for something like $2.99 or something when it was discontinued.
1:14.0	Now you have to pay $1,000 to find one on eBay.
1:19.2	Wow. Man, I wish I'd got one back then. I could have put it on eBay.
1:24.9	Oh, yeah. Just think about that. All the things that we don't have value for. For example, I'll give you another example of that,
1:37.5	I have a relative who is selling one of these Ronald McDonald statues from the 60s that they stuck in front of stores.
1:39.3	That's worth a few thousand.
1:41.3	Wow.
1:42.2	But I don't know.
1:43.0	In terms of the UFO and paranormal field, what do you
1:46.4	think would get a lot of money? A piece of the Roswell, memory metal. Yeah, but we're talking
1:53.5	about real things, not stuff that will never happen. Okay, let's talk about reality here. Yeah, how about a scale off a reptoid? I remember there was a case in Utah back in the
2:06.4	late 90s where this guy claimed that he, I don't know how he got it, he somehow was able
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