Classic Episode: May 13, 2018 — We Remember Brad Steiger featuring Jerome Clark and Kevin D. Randle with Don Ecker

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and very special guest cohost Don Ecker observed the May 6, 2018 passing of prolific author Brad Steiger, at the age of 82. They were joined by two author/researchers who knew Steiger well: Jerome Clark and Kevin D. Randle. The discussion began with guests remembering their first meetings and ongoing association with Steiger, and segued into the seldom-revealed limitations of writing books covering the UFO genre and similar subjects. There were also forthright discussions about the value of Steiger's research, pop culture, the world of sci-fi and other topics. As regular listeners to The Paracast know, Brad was a guest on our premiere episode on February 28, 2006, and was responsible for the show's name.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:27.8	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:31.5	In recent episodes of the Paracast, I mentioned that Bradstiger was quite ill, and later that he had gone into, unfortunately, and sadly, a hospice.
0:43.1	I learned from Tim Beckley that on Sunday the 6th of May, Brad Steiger died just past the age of 82.
0:53.9	And we all know Brad Steger is somebody who was an extremely
0:57.1	prolific author on the strange and unknown, going back, I guess, to the 1960s. In fact, I think I was in
1:06.2	high school, and this mirror is what someone else on the show is about to say. I think I was in high school when I first read one of his books.
1:14.5	And there were so many about UFOs, but his were well written, a lot of fascinating information.
1:21.0	And it just seemed to be like a torrent of books with a name Brad Steiger on them, one after another,
1:28.7	with a lot of different topics,
1:35.2	not just UFOs. He wrote books on ghosts, mysterious creatures, and so on and so forth.
1:43.7	Now, when we put together the Paracast in the early part of 2006, we selected two people to be the original guest, the first guest on the show.
1:46.4	One was Jim Mosley, and the other was Brad Stigar.
1:50.9	And in talking with Brad, we told him that we were going to come up with a name for the show.
1:55.8	We were working on some titles.
1:57.6	And the one we mentioned was Powercast World.
2:01.9	And Brad said, no, no, why don't you use the Paracast?
2:05.8	And here we are, 12 years later.
2:09.2	Now, I've invited people who were heavily influenced or very closely associated with Brad
2:16.5	Stiger, being colleagues, friends over the years,
2:19.7	and we can get more insights on this unique personality who wrote so many books.
2:24.4	And I'll take our guests alphabetically.
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