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The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

February 20, 2022 — Ralph Blumenthal with Tim Swartz

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

Science, News, Society & Culture

3.4683 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

A very special episode as Gene and guest cohost Tim Swartz present former New York Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal, co-author of the recent series of groundbreaking Times articles. coauthored with Helene Cooper and Leslie Kean, that revealed a secret Pentagon program to investigate UFOs and spurred serious discussions about the phenomenon by politicians, academics, and scientists. He is author of “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack,” about the Harvard psychiatrist who investigated possible UFO abductions. Blumenthal also led the Times metro team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the 1993 truck-bombing of the World Trade Center.

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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0:11.8

Plate compactor. I'll flatten her the lion little...

0:16.0

Get to Raleigh Fencing from 24 pound a panel and tool hired two with plate compactors from just 51 pound a week.

0:23.2

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0:25.9

So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evans're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.

0:57.8

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

1:02.1

So we have a really great episode, folks, this week.

1:06.1

We have Ralph Blumenthal, former New York Times reporter,

1:09.8

and winner of a Pulitzer Prize and author of

1:13.9

The Believer, Alien Encounters, Heart Science and the Passion of John Mack, our special

1:19.7

guest co-host is Tim Swartz, author of many thousands of books that they don't want you to read.

1:27.1

Is that what it is, Tim? Yeah, that's right. That they don't want you to read. Is that where it is, Tim?

1:28.6

Yes, right.

1:29.4

They don't want you to know.

1:32.6

Okay, Ralph, we were talking briefly before we got started, and welcome to the show.

1:37.6

And you were mentioning you got started working as a journalist back in 1963 in Texas, how did that happen?

1:46.0

Well, I had finished at City College of New York.

1:49.4

I finished in the off year because I stayed an extra semester to edit the college paper.

1:55.2

So I had some time on my hands before I was starting at Columbia Journalism School.

1:59.9

So I went down to Texas to look around and ended up getting a job at a small suburban

2:06.4

paper called the Grand Prairie Daily News Texan, part of a chain.

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