July 2, 2023 — Dean Bertram with Tim Swartz

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

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🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz introduce UFO researcher and filmmaker Dean Bertram, who talks about a documentary he's working on, "The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers." It tells the story of how Raymond A. Palmer, a disabled science fiction mega-fan became editor of America's leading science fiction “pulp” magazine, Amazing Stories, and created modern UFO belief. Palmer grew the magazine to all time circulation highs with a heady combination of hi-octane space operas and pseudo-scientific theories, culminating in something known as the “Shaver Mystery,” a series of tales by Richard S. Shaver allegedly based on real-life contact with a technologically advanced subterranean civilization, and space faring extraterrestrials, that abduct human beings from the earth's surface. As the Shaver Mystery reached its zenith, in June of 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported some of the first “flying saucers” seen in American skies. His account exploded across the world. Palmer hired Kenneth Arnold, with whom he co-wrote a series of articles and a book, "The Coming of the Saucers," that recounted the case of a proto-Roswell UFO crash, Men in Black, murderous conspiracies, abductions, and missing time. In other words, the blueprint for modern UFO lore.

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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.
0:32.1	You know, before we got talking here ahead of our show with Dean Bertram,
0:36.9	and my co-hosts of course is Tim
0:38.5	Swartz I was mentioning the fact that on our premium show after the
0:43.8	para cast we don't have the language restrictions because we don't have the
0:47.9	FCC on commercial radio like this show is on you can't use the seven deadly
0:53.3	words in fact when I went to broadcasting school I was told if you use radio like this show is on, you can't use the seven deadly words.
0:59.5	In fact, when I went to broadcasting school, I was told if you use one of those words even by accident, you will no longer have a career in radio.
1:05.0	Of course, this was before satellite radio and Howard Stern, decades before, so we know how
1:10.5	things have changed there. The other thing,
1:12.2	of course, if you like trivia, is that the broadcasting school I went to was just up the street
1:18.1	from the famous Brill building on Broadway in New York City. The Brill building is where they
1:24.6	wrote all those famous songs of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
1:28.3	Okay?
1:29.3	So, you know, like Pleasant Valley Sunday, and you've lost that love and feel and all that stuff.
1:35.3	It's the Brill Building down the street from us.
1:38.3	So well.
1:39.3	We are going to talk history again.
1:41.3	Some people who listen to the MarraCast wonder, why is this guy always talking
1:44.9	about history? It's because we haven't learned from it yet. We still see the same mistakes being made
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