December 10, 2023 — Richard Thieme with Tim Swartz

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🗓️ 10 December 2023

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a thought-provoking episode featuring Richard Thieme. He is an author/professional speaker who addresses challenges posed by new technologies, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. His speaking addresses “the human in the machine,” technology-related security and intelligence issues as they come home to our humanity. For the past 30 years, his speaking, writing and consulting has focused on security, intelligence, IT, and empowering people who live on the sharper edges of life and work. His books include: "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry" (2013). When a senior at the NSA told him, "the only way you can tell the truth is through fiction," he heeded his advice, and four novels and dozens of stories later, he completed his magnum opus, the Mobius Trilogy: "Mobius: A Memoir," a novel about an intelligence professional that is receiving great reviews, "The Mobius Vector: The Long Road Home," and the third book in the trilogy, "Mobius: Out of Time."

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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.
0:32.0	We have a really special guest on our show this week.
0:36.4	Someone who has had so many professional credentials,
0:40.0	the mind boggles. He's Richard Thiem, and he has a website, themeworks.com. That's Theme with
0:47.3	T-H-I-E-M-E. And we're going to cover his recent books, one called UFOs in government and historical inquiry,
0:57.0	and some novels in the series called Mobius.
1:03.0	So we got a lot to go with.
1:05.0	But when I was looking up your background, Richard, I noticed that you kind of got started in writing as a teenager,
1:13.6	writing sci-fi, and you wrote a story called Pleasant Journey for Analog Science Fiction,
1:22.2	which is one of the famous sci-fi magazines that was edited by Joseph Campbell. Was that John Campbell,
1:29.8	rather not Joseph Campbell, right? John Campbell. You're right, Joseph Campbell. So you got,
1:34.6	how did you start writing sci-fi? And what was the story about, by the way? Very interesting.
1:40.0	Question to start off with. I started writing when I was like 13.
1:44.9	We have time so I can do a very brief autobiographical statement about that.
1:50.0	How that happened?
1:51.2	Take your time.
1:52.3	If we run over time, I'll throw you off.
1:54.8	Don't worry.
1:55.9	Okay.
1:56.4	When I was, I guess, 13 years old, I was in eighth grade at Middle Horse Grammar School in Chicago,
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