December 31, 2023 — Mark Christopher Lee with Tim Swartz

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🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present Mark Christopher Lee, a singer-songwriter in the cult indie band The Pocket Gods since 1998. As a filmmaker, he presents “God Vs. Aliens,” which looks into whether life as we know and perceive it is just a simulation designed and controlled by extra terrestrials for some unknown purpose. This theory would then make religion and even the idea of God as a construct of the computer game and thereby the Aliens controlling it. This films explores this theory and its impact on the world’s religions should we make first contact, and especially if that contact would actually negate our physical existence and any notion of God as real. Featured in the film are former UK Ministry of Defence staffer Nick Pope, Harvard astronomer Professor Avi Loeb, and UFO skeptic Seth Shostak. As a working musician, Lee has long advocated for fair royalties for artists, especially on such music streaming services as Apple Music and Spotify. He says that musicians routinely get underpaid for their work by the music industry and they have released albums of 30-second songs since 2015 to highlight the lack of fair royalties.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:18.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:27.8	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.4	So with Gene and Tim, we have Mark Christopher Lee joining joining us and he'll be talking shortly about his
0:41.2	background in music but also about a UFO documentary called God versus aliens we all want to know about
0:49.9	that in the meantime Tim and I want to bring up a couple of things here. There have been two
0:56.0	passings, as I say, in the last week that we want to talk about. One is a fellow traveler by the
1:03.2	name of Ian Puntit, and he was the weekend host for the Coast to Coast AM radio show for 24 years.
1:12.8	I understand, Tim, that you were a guest on the show a few times.
1:18.0	Yes, that's correct.
1:19.8	At least two, at least twice that I talked with Ian.
1:23.8	He was always a great host, very gracious, and I always enjoyed being with him, so he will
1:30.8	be missed. I understand he died of a liver disorder, and we send our sympathies to his family and
1:37.7	friends. Another death comes our way here. I'm sure both of you have heard of the Smothers Brothers,
1:46.7	and Tommy Smothers died at the age of 86.
1:50.9	I think a lot of people who were younger, never heard of them,
1:53.6	but they had a show on the CBS TV network in the late 60s,
1:58.7	and they were canceled because they went afoul of some of the regulations for content.
2:09.4	So that's why they canceled this show after three years.
2:13.2	But with the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, they introduced people like Steve Martin and Glenn Campbell and people like that, even Rob Reiner, who later was on the show all in the family and became a top-notch film director, was one of the early people to appear with the Smothers Brothers in the
2:35.8	60s. I think largely as a comedy writer, as a matter of fact. Okay, Mark, let's talk about you
2:42.2	and talk about things that are ongoing here. One of the things I saw in your bio, which
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