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

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

This is going to be a special time.

We have a special guest joining us on this year-end episode of the Paracast. He's going to be a special time. We have a special guest joining us on this year-end episode of the

Paracast. He's the guy from Dark Matters Radio, a very frequent and honored presence on the

Paracast community forums, the one, the only Don Eckerd. Don, welcome back to the show.

Well, Gene, thank you very much for the invitation.

It's a great pleasure to be here.

Meantime, we have a lot of ground to cover.

Obviously, there are questions from our audience posted in the Paracast community forums,

and also lots of things happening in 2012.

Of course, some of those things that happened in the field were not always

sub-pleasant, but we'll get to them and looking for the projections in the paranormal field

for 2013. Now, the one thing I want to ask, before we go on here, you've had a love-hate

relationship with the UFO field, and this is a question also from our forums.

And that is, Don Ecker, why do you stick with it?

Why do you still participate?

Why do you still do radio shows, et cetera, et cetera.

Well, the radio show, as I've often stated, is doing radio is a love of mine.

And I am not simply geared toward the UFO topic on the radio.

Actually, Dark Matters Radio, it gives me an opportunity to explore just about anything, Gene, that strikes my fancy.

For example, very recently, we did a program on the 2012

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