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The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

March 31, 2019 — Richard Hoffman

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

News, Society & Culture, Science

3.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2019

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Gene and Randall feature Richard Hoffman, who has been investigating the UFO phenomena for over 52 years. He first got involved in UFO researcher as a teenager when he was assigned a school paper on the subject. His curiosity resulted in a lifelong pursuit of the truth behind the mystery. Over the years, Rich has explored a number of fascinating UFO cases, some of which he’ll describe on this episode. A former State Director and researcher for MUFON, he continues UFO investigations on his own and as an Executive Board Member for the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU).

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're in the Paracast.

0:10.0

You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.

0:27.9

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

0:32.1

So, Randall, I got a notice in the forums about somebody posting that our guest last week, John Potash, made a mistake about which TV show John Lennon guest hosted.

0:47.7

And therefore, everything he said should be ignored.

0:51.6

Okay.

0:52.8

You see, it was either Mike Douglas or Merv Griffin,

0:55.7

but those of us who look at this 30, 40 years later, say,

0:59.8

what was the difference?

1:02.2

I guess.

1:03.3

I didn't even know that John Lennon actually hosted a talk show, you know.

1:07.5

I did know that he had a UFO sighting, you know, over the East River, and that's very well documented.

1:14.2

You can even see him talking about it on video.

1:16.3

So, you know, why should we dismiss that simply because maybe Podash got the name of the show wrong or something like that?

1:26.0

As I said, over time, they blur together.

1:29.5

These were miscellaneous talk shows, kind of homogenized versions of what used to be the

1:35.6

Tonight Show, but during the daytime.

1:39.2

And, you know, I know the difference between Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin.

1:45.0

As a practical matter, it didn't matter that much.

1:47.8

They were basically the same sort of shows.

1:50.8

Right.

1:51.5

Well, that's fine.

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