March 19, 2023 — Mark Olly with Tim Swartz

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🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a return appearance by Mark Olly, an internationally recognized author, TV producer/presenter, writer, lecturer, broadcaster, musician and artist. His recent book, “The Polychronicon of Merlin, Joseph & Arthur,” is real history and archaeology, not just the invention of creative minds. It reveals incidents and characters as they really were, listed in chronological order, leaving the impression that Britain has always been a very different place to the one painted by popular history. Merlin becomes one of an ancient line of Pythagorean scholars and political visionaries, Joseph of Arimathea a religious dissident fleeing persecution and death to far off foreign shores, Arthur a hardened womanizing battle leader who loses his entire family and culture to war and eventually natural disaster. And what about the legendary search for the Holy Grail?

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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.
0:31.9	You know, the most adventurous thing we do in the Paracast
0:35.4	is to find ways to communicate with Microsoft Skype.
0:40.3	Now, you think Skype, you know, it's been around for 20 years or so, it should be easy.
0:45.9	But trying to talk to Mark Olly today has proven to be a little troublesome.
0:52.8	So he ended up calling us.
0:54.6	Now, I don't want to say what he called us
0:56.2	because this is terrestrial radio
0:58.2	and we're now allowed to say those words, right? Mark?
1:01.6	Correct.
1:03.5	But seriously speaking, he called me,
1:05.4	I called Tim and I don't know what Tim called me back
1:09.0	but then that's it, seriously. No, we're going to have a
1:12.4	really fascinating discussion about a book that Mark has written called the Polychronicon of Merlin,
1:20.8	Joseph, and Arthur. And anything related to Merlin and King Arthur and all that stuff, everybody likes to hear about that.
1:29.9	So we're going to kind of look at the facts and the fiction.
1:32.8	First, we want to talk about speaking of fiction, last week's episode, and some people say,
1:38.9	you know what, in the days of the paracast, the early days, you'd rag on people more than you do now. And I think the
1:45.9	reason is we ran out of people to rag on. But we found a few more. Anyway, we were talking last week
1:51.4	about a book from Ken Goodsworth, who, by the way, was quite a good guest called UFOs in the
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