Okay, you've entered the Paracast with your host, Gene Steinberg and David Beading.

Okay, so David's taking not a family day, but a family week because we're a weekly show.

So David will be back next week.

And he has commissioned me to stay here all by myself.

And I decided I'm not going to do that.

I'm going to have help.

Okay.

If I'm going to suffer, then I will bring someone in to help me suffer.

And I thought, you know, who should I bring Brad Stiger?

I've known Brad Stiger since before the dinosaurs will the earth.

And so therefore we bring Brad over, and he has a new book out now.

And the reason I'm going to mention it is that vampires are big in popular culture these days.

You know, you have that movie, Twilight, okay, the teen movie.

There's a new program on the CW channel.

I do not remember the name.

I'm not going to look it up.

And then, of course, we have true blood.

Kind of a, you know, kind of a guilty pleasure, which is getting greater and greater ratings as an example.

It's on a premium pay network, HBO, so you have to pay extra every month or get an enhanced package to get HBO.

And they've got almost as many viewers to that show, True Blood, as they do with regular network fair.

That's all about vampires and shapeshifters and other creatures of the night.

I don't think they have a werewolf there.

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