January 3, 2016 — Micah Hanks

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

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🗓️ 3 January 2016

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Have we made any progress at all in understanding our paranormal universe? For our first episode of 2016 invited Micah Hanks, of The Gralien Report, for a no-nonsense discussion about pop culture, the effects of myths on our society and other compelling topics. Micah is a writer, researcher, podcaster, lecturer and radio personality whose work addresses a variety of areas, including history, politics, scientific theories and unexplained phenomena. His research has examined a broad variety of subjects over the years, incorporating interest in scientific anomalies, cultural studies, psychology, sci-fi and pop culture, government secrecy, and the prospects of our technological future as a species as influenced by science.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:06.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:28.0	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.9	So I think Chris and I are both looking forward to the end of 2015.
0:39.6	It was a difficult year for a lot of us, but more so for Chris because of unfortunately
0:44.6	the untimely passing of his brother and the fact that you briefly flatlined, basically,
0:52.0	right?
0:53.0	Yeah, I hadn't really mentioned that before on the show,
0:57.0	but I battled respiratory.
1:00.2	I think a respiratory virus, the doctors really don't know what it is.
1:03.8	I'm pretty sure I caught it seven years ago up at the Zuni Reservation
1:10.2	at the Shaliko Ceremony. It was a ceremonial room, 80 plus degrees, little baby's sick, everybody was sick.
1:18.0	It was five below outside.
1:19.7	The steam was boiling out of the room when the door opened, and it was just a germ.
1:24.6	There was primordial bugs in there that I don't think have ever left Zuni. And, you know,
1:29.2	I got sick for three months after that and it went to three, you know, antibiotic things. And it
1:36.7	never really did. It just kind of faded away. And I just, I never really felt like I had kicked it.
1:41.9	It just kind of went dormant. And then this last year, actually, it started at the UFO Congress.
1:48.6	I spent four hours celebrating the E.B. Awards win by Ron James and Jennifer Stein,
1:56.1	and I was in this smoky casino, and I had quit smoking for two months and then right after that that respiratory thing
2:03.3	came back with a vengeance and when I went up to my my brother's memorial the first week of May
2:09.3	I really shouldn't have gone I had a speaking engagement at Adam State College and I was
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