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The Light Gate welcomes guest: Paul Stonehill, Russian UFO researcher/author Date: March 31, 2025. Time: 5-7pm pacific / 8-10pm eastern Episode: 101 Discussion: UFO/USO encounters in Russia Tonight, the Light Gate welcomes Paul Stonehill. Paul is an international researcher and author, whose areas of research and published works include: UFOs and USOs (Unidentified Flying Objects, Unidentified Submersible Objects), Soviet space exploration, and Eurasian paranormal phenomena. He was born in Kiev, USSR (now independent Ukraine), and traveled through various parts of the Soviet Union in his youth. Paul is fluent in Russian, and knows Ukrainian. His articles on UFO and anomalous phenomena have been published in a number of languages throughout the world in newspapers and magazines. After the demise of the USSR, his articles were also published in Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asian republics. In October of 1993, OMNI Magazine featured a story about Paul's work, and the research center he had created back in 1991 (Russian Ufology Research Center). Paul has lectured in the U.S., Brazil, and China, and appeared on such TV shows as Ancient Aliens, The Unexplained Files, The Secret KGB Files and more. He has appeared on many of the major UFO podcasts, including Coast-to-Coast, Fade-to-Black, Podcast UFO and many others. He has also spoken at many UFO conventions, such as The International UFO Congress, UFO Megacon, and others. His areas of expertise are: Russian history; Soviet covert operations; warfare in the former USSR; cross-cultural training; paranormal phenomena in the Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and China (PRC). He has published a number of books, most co-authored by Philip Mantle (U.K.). His books include “Mysterious Sky: Soviet UFO Phenomenon,” “Soviet UFO Files,” “UFO Case Files of Russia,” “Paranormal Mysteries of Eurasia,” “Russia's USO Secrets” and Russia's Roswell Incident.” He also has a popular YouTube channel where he presents much of his research. LINKS: WEBSITE: https://openminds.tv/author/paul/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTzjRCRST1H65rC-dzCh18g

For this show, we have a returning guest, night photographer Ken Lee. I've known Ken for awhile, and the way he ended up as a guest for the show Capturing the Slowing of Time is one of my fave Behind the Shot stories. Ken Lee, along with being an accomplished photographer, is also a regular watcher, or listener, of Behind the Shot. Years ago, when I was giving away Red River Paper Sample Packs, Ken was one of the winners. He also won the How to Build Real Influence e-course from Trey Ratcliff and Lauren Bath. As I did with every winner, I checked out Ken's work at that time and made a mental note I wanted to get him on the show, but I got sidetracked. One of the downsides of only doing a show on your own is that potential guests back up quickly. Then, when I was at The NAMM Show in Anaheim CA back in 2020, I met up with another Behind the Shot watcher (or listener - I really need to find an easier way to get through that variable), Mike Martin of Casio. Mike is great guy, and we had fun chatting in-between him actually working. Next thing I knew, Mike tagged me in a tweet to tell me about a friend of his that he thought would be a good guest on the show. This friend had just released a new book, and the cover image was awesome. When I saw the name on the cover I had to do a double take, it was Ken's book! Well, Ken has another new book out, Abandoned Roadside Attractions: Under a Southwest Moon (Abandoned Union), and once again we need to chat about the cover shot. I introduced Ken above as a "night photographer", which isn't a genre you hear often, so let me let him explain: "I drive long hours in a dusty car listening to weird music, stay out all night creating photos, get dirty, hang out with other creative sleep-deprived weirdos, see the stars drift across the sky, and always find the best taco stands." Let me interrupt Ken for a second. I need to know the names of some those taco stands Ken. You need to write that up somewhere. Sorry for the break... back to Ken... "I have been exploring the Southwestern United States as well as parts of the East Coast for over nine years, brandishing a camera, tripod, and colored flashlight. I especially love creating night photos of abandoned historical places, unique features, and beautiful landscapes. These are experiences that I absolutely cherish." I mentioned Ken is an accomplished photographer, and I meant it. His images have appeared in outlets like NatGeo.com, National Geographic Books, Omni Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Westways Magazine, and numerous other publications. He's also won numerous awards. Join Light Painting, Long Exposure, Night Sky, and Abandoned Site photographer and author Ken Lee to discuss the cover image from his new book, on this episode of Behind the Shot. Connect with Ken Website: kenleephotography.com BlueSky: @kenleephotography Instagram: @kenleephotography Facebook: @kenleephotography Flickr: @kenleephotography Twitter: @blueberrybuddha Ken's Books Abandoned Roadside Attractions: Under a Southwest Moon (Abandoned Union): amazon.com Route 66 Abandoned: Under a Western Moon (America Through Time): amazon.com Abandoned Planes, Trains and Automobiles: California Revealed (America Through Time): amazon.com Abandoned Southern California: The Slowing of Time (America Through Time): amazon.com Ken's Photographer Pick Lance Keimig: Flickr.com Troy Paiva: lostamerica.com | @troypaiva Charles Peterson: charlespeterson.net | @charles.peterson.photographer Herman Leonard: hermanleonard.com | @hermanleonardphotography Sebastiao Salgado: @sebastiaosalgadooficial

THE LIGHT GATE – Trish and Rob MacGregor, authors/researchers. The Light Gate welcomes guests: Trish and Rob MacGregor. Author & researchers of UFOs, paranormal, supernatural, psychic powers, dreams, synchronicities and more Date: August 12, 2024 Episode: 068 Discussion: Mind Blowing Synchronicities: The Latest Science, Stories and Research. Tonight, The Light Gate welcomes back UFO and paranormal power couple, Rob and Trish Macgregor. Rob MacGregor is the author of nineteen novels, fourteen non-fiction books, and has teamed with George Lucas and Peter Benchley. He writes both adult and young adult mysteries, adventure, and science fiction/ fantasy. He is a winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for mystery writing for Prophecy Rock, the first of four novels featuring Will Lansa, whose life is divided between the Hopi Reservation where is father is chief of police and Aspen, Colorado where his mother is heir to a silver fortune. Rob is best known for the seven Indiana Jones novels he wrote for Lucas Films and Bantam Books. Among them is the adaptation of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, which spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He also has written several self-help books on dreams, synchronicity, yoga, and psychic development. In addition, he has explored the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle in THE FOG, and UFOs in Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions, and Synchronicity, one of three books on synchronicity he co-authored with his wife, Trish. In his spare time, Rob teaches yoga and meditation. Trish MacGregor has written dozens of non-fiction books on astrology, the tarot, dreams, and synchronicity. She started out as a freelance magazine writer and eventually became a regular contributor to OMNI Magazine's anti-matter section, which covered UFOs and all aspects of the paranormal. Through those assignments, she met famed abductee Betty Hill, UFO researcher Budd Hopkins, and others. Rob & Trish MacGregor write both fiction and non-fiction. Their most recent non-fiction books are Beyond Strange and Sensing the Future. They also co-authored: Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions & Synchroncity. Trish is the author of The Biggest Horoscope Book Ever and Rob is the author of The Jewel in the Lotus: Meditation for Busy Minds. Trish co-authored Power Tarot with Phyllis Vega and Rob co-authored Beyond the Bermuda Triangle with Bruce Gernon. Tonight we will be discussing their latest book, “Mind Blowing Synchronicities: The Latest Science, Stories and Research. They live in South Florida with three cats and a noble golden retriever. Their daughter, Megan, is an aspiring writer and artist. LINKS https://themysticalunderground.com/ www.robmacgregor.net www.trishjmacgregor.com https://www.facebook.com/rob.macgregor01 https://www.facebook.com/trish.macgregor.7

The Light Gate welcomes UFO and paranormal power couple, Rob and Trish MacGregor. About The Guests:  Rob MacGregor is the author of nineteen novels, fourteen non-fiction books, and has teamed with George Lucas and Peter Benchley. He writes both adult and young adult mysteries, adventure, and science fiction/ fantasy. He is a winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for mystery writing for Prophecy Rock, the first of four novels featuring Will Lansa, whose life is divided between the Hopi Reservation where is father is chief of police and Aspen, Colorado where his mother is heir to a silver fortune. Rob is best known for the seven Indiana Jones novels he wrote for Lucas Films and Bantam Books. Among them is the adaptation of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, which spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He also has written several self-help books on dreams, synchronicity, yoga, and psychic development. In addition, he has explored the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle in THE FOG, and UFOs in Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions, and Synchronicity, one of three books on synchronicity he co-authored with his wife, Trish. In his spare time, Rob teaches yoga and meditation.  Trish MacGregor has written dozens of non-fiction books on astrology, the tarot, dreams, and synchronicity. She started out as a freelance magazine writer and eventually became a regular contributor to OMNI Magazine's anti-matter section, which covered UFOs and all aspects of the paranormal. Through those assignments, she met famed abductee Betty Hill, UFO researcher Budd Hopkins, and others. Rob & Trish MacGregor write both fiction and non-fiction. Their most recent non-fiction books are Beyond Strange and Sensing the Future. They also co-authored: Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions & Synchroncity. Trish is the author of The Biggest Horoscope Book Ever and Rob is the author of The Jewel in the Lotus: Meditation for Busy Minds. Trish co-authored Power Tarot with Phyllis Vega and Rob co-authored Beyond the Bermuda Triangle with Bruce Gernon. They live in South Florida with three cats and a noble golden retriever. Their daughter, Megan, is an aspiring writer and artist.       LINKS https://themysticalunderground.com/ www.robmacgregor.net www.trishjmacgregor.com https://www.facebook.com/rob.macgregor01 https://www.facebook.com/trish.macgregor.7

The Light Gate welcomes UFO and paranormal power couple, Rob and Trish MacGregor. About The Guests: Rob MacGregor is the author of nineteen novels, fourteen non-fiction books, and has teamed with George Lucas and Peter Benchley. He writes both adult and young adult mysteries, adventure, and science fiction/ fantasy. He is a winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for mystery writing for Prophecy Rock, the first of four novels featuring Will Lansa, whose life is divided between the Hopi Reservation where is father is chief of police and Aspen, Colorado where his mother is heir to a silver fortune. Rob is best known for the seven Indiana Jones novels he wrote for Lucas Films and Bantam Books. Among them is the adaptation of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, which spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He also has written several self-help books on dreams, synchronicity, yoga, and psychic development. In addition, he has explored the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle in THE FOG, and UFOs in Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions, and Synchronicity, one of three books on synchronicity he co-authored with his wife, Trish. In his spare time, Rob teaches yoga and meditation. Trish MacGregor has written dozens of non-fiction books on astrology, the tarot, dreams, and synchronicity. She started out as a freelance magazine writer and eventually became a regular contributor to OMNI Magazine's anti-matter section, which covered UFOs and all aspects of the paranormal. Through those assignments, she met famed abductee Betty Hill, UFO researcher Budd Hopkins, and others. Rob & Trish MacGregor write both fiction and non-fiction. Their most recent non-fiction books are Beyond Strange and Sensing the Future. They also co-authored: Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions & Synchroncity. Trish is the author of The Biggest Horoscope Book Ever and Rob is the author of The Jewel in the Lotus: Meditation for Busy Minds. Trish co-authored Power Tarot with Phyllis Vega and Rob co-authored Beyond the Bermuda Triangle with Bruce Gernon. They live in South Florida with three cats and a noble golden retriever. Their daughter, Megan, is an aspiring writer and artist. LINKS https://themysticalunderground.com/ www.robmacgregor.net www.trishjmacgregor.com https://www.facebook.com/rob.macgregor01 https://www.facebook.com/trish.macgregor.7

2:01:00 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Dynamints, Omni Magazine, this future, EPCOT Horizons, Google Maps Immersive View, news, imagination vs. reality, AI, Absolutely Some Doors, “Countdown” by William Crutchfield, a new kind of time travel, The Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM, The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), AI cinema, Omni Magazine – May […]

2:01:00 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Dynamints, Omni Magazine, this future, EPCOT Horizons, Google Maps Immersive View, news, imagination vs. reality, AI, Absolutely Some Doors, “Countdown” by William Crutchfield, a new kind of time travel, The Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM, The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), AI cinema, Omni Magazine – May […]

Doug and Dr. Bill Finalize the series "Roswell the Final Verdict". Omni Magazine rolls out is own investigative media "Project Open Book" where all can contribute to the apparent UFO/Extraterrestrial phenomena. Was this the nail in Omni's coffin as it mysteriously vaporizes without warning? The magazine wasn't dead yet but shortly after...#LueElizondo #LuisElizondo #elizondo #pentagon #uap #ufo #nieuwerevu #uapdisclosure #congres #ufo #ufology #vechtenmetmoszkowicz #vmm #maxmoszkowicz #moszkowicz #congresdisclosure #nuclearwarheads #coldwar #ufonews #ufoscoop #nytimes #ufosightings #uapsightings #pentagonufo #pentagonuap #ufodisclosure #jamesfox #thephenomenon #robertsalas #nukes #nukesufo #malmstromufo #ufonukes #malmstrom #robertosalas #pentagon #uap #ufo #uapdisclosure #congres #ufo #ufology #vechtenmetmoszkowicz #vmm #maxmoszkowicz #moszkowicz #congresdisclosure #coldwar #ufonews #ufoscoop #nytimes #ufosightings #uapsightings #pentagonufo #pentagonuap #ufodisclosure #jamesfox #thephenomenon #lueelizondo #uapnukes #ufology #unidentifiedaerialphenomena #robertsalasufo #ufosightings #jamescfox #jamesfox #thephenomenon #phenomenonfilm #180days #ufo #ufologie #pentagon #uap #ufo #uapdisclosure #congres #ufo #ufology #vechtenmetmoszkowicz #vmm #maxmoszkowicz #moszkowicz #congresdisclosure #nuclearwarheads #coldwar #ufonews #ufoscoop #nytimes #ufosightings #uapsightings #pentagonufo #pentagonuap #ufodisclosure #jamesfox #thephenomenon #theBIGPHONEHOME #UAPactnow #enduapsecrecy #luisjiminez #basrutten #ufomeldpunt #ufotwitter #uap #ufo #pentagonreport #pentagon #UAPactnow #EndUAPSecrecy #postmaloneufo #thedebrief #lueelizondo #ufodiscussion #NYTUFO #theproofisoutthere #historychannel #Harvardufo #ufooahu #hawaiiufo #ufonews #ufonews2021 #oahu #LAXjetpack #LAXfufo #historychannel #roswell #firstwitness #IsraelUFO #Elizondo Lue Elizondo #飞碟 #五角大楼报告 #披露 #divulgar #OVNI #НЛО #otchet #Pentagona #Oak Island उफौ, aria,l, अज्ञात, फ्लाइंग, ऑब्जेक्ट, प्राचीन इतिहास, प्राचीन, इतिहास, post, praveen, mohan uao UAP ufo UFO #UAP #meatloaf #louieanderson#Ukraine#Russia

Doug and Dr. Bill discuss the impressive 5th installment of "Roswell the final verdict" and Omni Magazines 6th in the series on UFO's from 1994. As the magazine pumps out UFO articles it suddenly vaporizes for no reason.#LueElizondo #LuisElizondo #elizondo #pentagon #uap #ufo #nieuwerevu #uapdisclosure #congres #ufo #ufology #vechtenmetmoszkowicz #vmm #maxmoszkowicz #moszkowicz #congresdisclosure #nuclearwarheads #coldwar #ufonews #ufoscoop #nytimes #ufosightings #uapsightings #pentagonufo #pentagonuap #ufodisclosure #jamesfox #thephenomenon #robertsalas #nukes #nukesufo #malmstromufo #ufonukes #malmstrom #robertosalas #pentagon #uap #ufo #uapdisclosure #congres #ufo #ufology #vechtenmetmoszkowicz #vmm #maxmoszkowicz #moszkowicz #congresdisclosure #coldwar #ufonews #ufoscoop #nytimes #ufosightings #uapsightings #pentagonufo #pentagonuap #ufodisclosure #jamesfox #thephenomenon #lueelizondo #uapnukes #ufology #unidentifiedaerialphenomena #robertsalasufo #ufosightings #jamescfox #jamesfox #thephenomenon #phenomenonfilm #180days #ufo #ufologie #pentagon #uap #ufo #uapdisclosure #congres #ufo #ufology #vechtenmetmoszkowicz #vmm #maxmoszkowicz #moszkowicz #congresdisclosure #nuclearwarheads #coldwar #ufonews #ufoscoop #nytimes #ufosightings #uapsightings #pentagonufo #pentagonuap #ufodisclosure #jamesfox #thephenomenon #theBIGPHONEHOME #UAPactnow #enduapsecrecy #luisjiminez #basrutten #ufomeldpunt #ufotwitter #uap #ufo #pentagonreport #pentagon #UAPactnow #EndUAPSecrecy #postmaloneufo #thedebrief #lueelizondo #ufodiscussion #NYTUFO #theproofisoutthere #historychannel #Harvardufo #ufooahu #hawaiiufo #ufonews #ufonews2021 #oahu #LAXjetpack #LAXfufo #historychannel #roswell #firstwitness #IsraelUFO #Elizondo Lue Elizondo #飞碟 #五角大楼报告 #披露 #divulgar #OVNI #НЛО #otchet #Pentagona #Oak Island उफौ, aria,l, अज्ञात, फ्लाइंग, ऑब्जेक्ट, प्राचीन इतिहास, प्राचीन, इतिहास, post, praveen, mohan uao UAP ufo UFO #UAP #meatloaf #louieanderson#Ukraine#Russia

“What about the future are you trying to determine? Is it a specific kind of technology? A cultural behavioral pattern? A system of running companies? A way of feeding people? Language evolution? Where in society today are people asking the hard questions or making some new discoveries?”In high school, I would spend every week reading Omni magazine in the school library. Today I often read Science Daily. Both of these sources of information play huge inspirations into the questions I ask about the future. In this episode I talk about Amy Webb's book (that shares the same name as the title of this episode) and delve into her six-step methodology, offering my viewpoint for each step. I use my own Janey McCallister sci-fi mystery novels as an example and some of the decision making process for that series.  In this episode, you will learn the following:1) Where do you look for inspiration in writing the future?2) What are you trying to determine about the future?3) How can Amy Webb's six step methodology help your writing? Summary:1) Beth Barany runs the How To Write The Future podcast for science fiction writers who want to write positive futures and bring those stories successfully out into the marketplace. She shares how Omni magazine was one of her early inspirations and why.2) In today's podcast episode titled ‘The Signals are Talking' Beth will talk about Amy Webb's book (that shares the same name) and recognizing different patterns from the fringes of society. She also uses her own Janey McCallister sci-fi mystery story as an example and shares some information in her decision making for her series.3) Beth asks “Where can you go to find people working maybe on the fringes of society that is not published in mainstream media? Can you talk to those people?” Read those articles. Watch those interviews and notice that inspiration is coming from places that aren't naturally making headlines.4) Additionally, in the second part of the podcast episode, Beth delves into Amy Webb's six step methodology and shares her informative viewpoint for each step that Beth herself will revisit going forward.RESOURCESAmy Webb, The Signals Are Talking: https://books2read.com/thesignalsaretalkingwebb  ; and her organization: Future Today Institute: https://futuretodayinstitute.com/SCIENCE DAILY:  https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/TALK TO A WRITING COACHhttps://writersfunzone.com/blog/talk-to-a-writing-coach/  Connect with me:Twitter: https://twitter.com/BethBaranyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethbarany/EDITED WITH DESCRIPT https://www.descript.com?lmref=_w1WCAMUSIC CREDITSMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/fuzz-buzzLicense code: UMMKDRL02DFGKJ0L. “Fuzz buzz” by Soundroll.Commercial license: https://musicvine.com/track/soundroll/fuzz-buzzPRODUCTION BY Beth BaranySHOW NOTES SUPPORT from Kerry-Ann McDade

Doug and Bill investigate the possibility that the Sci-Fi scientific publication may have been axed due to its UFO expose stories. Skinwaler Ranch "Closer encounters" episode Doug's acquittances UFO stories. Upcoming guests.  #LueElizondo #LuisElizondo #elizondo #pentagon #uap #ufo #nieuwerevu #uapdisclosure #congres #ufo #ufology #vechtenmetmoszkowicz #vmm #maxmoszkowicz #moszkowicz #congresdisclosure #nuclearwarheads #coldwar #ufonews #ufoscoop #nytimes #ufosightings #uapsightings #pentagonufo #pentagonuap #ufodisclosure #jamesfox #thephenomenon #robertsalas #nukes #nukesufo #malmstromufo #ufonukes #malmstrom #robertosalas #pentagon #uap #ufo #uapdisclosure #congres #ufo #ufology #vechtenmetmoszkowicz #vmm #maxmoszkowicz #moszkowicz #congresdisclosure #coldwar #ufonews #ufoscoop #nytimes #ufosightings #uapsightings #pentagonufo #pentagonuap #ufodisclosure #jamesfox #thephenomenon #lueelizondo #uapnukes #ufology #unidentifiedaerialphenomena #robertsalasufo #ufosightings #jamescfox #jamesfox #thephenomenon #phenomenonfilm #180days #ufo #ufologie #pentagon #uap #ufo #uapdisclosure #congres #ufo #ufology #vechtenmetmoszkowicz #vmm #maxmoszkowicz #moszkowicz #congresdisclosure #nuclearwarheads #coldwar #ufonews #ufoscoop #nytimes #ufosightings #uapsightings #pentagonufo #pentagonuap #ufodisclosure #jamesfox #thephenomenon #theBIGPHONEHOME #UAPactnow #enduapsecrecy #luisjiminez #basrutten #ufomeldpunt #ufotwitter #uap #ufo #pentagonreport #pentagon #UAPactnow #EndUAPSecrecy #postmaloneufo #thedebrief #lueelizondo #ufodiscussion #NYTUFO #theproofisoutthere #historychannel #Harvardufo #ufooahu #hawaiiufo #ufonews #ufonews2021 #oahu #LAXjetpack #LAXfufo #historychannel #roswell #firstwitness #IsraelUFO #Elizondo Lue Elizondo #飞碟 #五角大楼报告 #披露 #divulgar #OVNI #НЛО #otchet #Pentagona #Oak Island उफौ, aria,l, अज्ञात, फ्लाइंग, ऑब्जेक्ट, प्राचीन इतिहास, प्राचीन, इतिहास, post, praveen, mohan uao UAP ufo UFO #UAP #meatloaf #louieanderson#Ukraine#Russia

Legendary editor hits Philip Fracassi with tips for aspiring horror writersWe had a great conversation with legendary editor Ellen Datlow in which we discuss anthologies, tips for new writers when submitting a story, the nuts and bolts of creating a killer table of contents, and much more.Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than a hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year.She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and was the recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre.” She was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, as well as the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.Datlow lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at www.datlow.com.

Scot Morris discusses his 7 Carson appearances, being the games editor of Omni Magazine which Carson was a big fan of, Jerry Seinfeld, & Garry Shandling.

Hello listeners, subscribers, fans and everybody in the Teen Canteen. I apologize for not reaching out sooner but, in the immortal words from the band Disturbed, I was, “Down with the Sickness.” That’s right. I had the thing. Now I don’t know if it was the Omni Magazine, JetBlue, Lambda Lambda Lambda (Tri-Lambs) or the original, rich, chocolatey CocoRona version. What I do know is it knocked me on my arse. I had episodes all laid out for the weeks that have passed so I may still finish those and slowly get caught up. Because the lasting fatigue and headaches are still a real pain, just hang in there with me and look for those alerts when new shows are up and running. Thank you all for a being here and enjoying Norm Nathan’s Vault of Silliness. Talk to you all soon.

On this amazing edition of the UnX News Radio show, Margie talks with the intrepid, Lee Speigel!Lee has presented credible, compelling stories about UFOs, Science and the Paranormal since 1975, when he produced and wrote a documentary record album, “UFOs: The Credibility Factor,” for CBS Inc. This marked the first time that a major recording company offered a UFO-related product to the public via a prime time TV infomercial.During production of his UFO album, Speigel and numerous law enforcement officers were involved in a historic UFO encounter in Lumberton, No. Carolina — the first well-documented, multiple witness, triangular-shaped UFO incident in America, highlighted in David Marler's 2013 book, “Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation.”In 1978, Speigel's second attempt at UFO disclosure took place on a world stage when he became the only person in history to produce a milestone presentation on UFOs at the United Nations. Under the sponsorship of Grenada, he brought together leading military and scientific experts (including astronomers J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee), who urged world leaders to establish an international UFO study committee.Between 1978 and 1986, Speigel produced, wrote and hosted nearly 1,500 local and national programs on NBC Radio, dealing with UFOs and unexplained phenomena. In 1979, he produced a weeklong series of radio reports that renewed public interest in the legendary 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash.While working at NBC, Lee researched Air Force microfilm files at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. He uncovered original audiotapes of a 1965 four-hour encounter by numerous military personnel who watched nearly a dozen luminous UFOs maneuver in the sky above Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was the first person to bring this enigmatic case to the public in a 1982 edition of OMNI Magazine.In 1993, Speigel wrote and co-produced “Lincoln's Music In America: The Classics In Space,” a national award-winning classical music special, broadcast over the Concert Music Network. The program, co-hosted by SETI Institute founder, astronomer Frank Drake, focused on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.Between 2010 and 2017, Lee was the chief Huffington Post writer of hundreds of stories that crossed the fields of the Paranormal, UFOs and Science. In 2012, one of his most controversial HuffPost stories involved startling revelations by a former CIA covert, undercover operations agent who claimed to have seen evidence at CIA headquarters proving the extraterrestrial explanation for what crashed near Roswell, NM, in 1947. The story produced worldwide headlines. That same year, Speigel was honored with the International UFO Congress Researcher of the Year award.Lee was featured on the 2014 Syfy Channel documentary, “Aliens on the Moon: The Truth Exposed,” and in 2015, he was a cast member on season two of the History Channel series, “Hangar 1: The UFO Files.”He was co-producer and co-writer of “The Phenomenon,” a thought-provoking, critically acclaimed 2020 documentary about UFOs (the latest installment of director James Fox's lauded UFO films). On Oct. 23, 2020, it became the #1 documentary and #3 overall movie, worldwide, on iTunes. And on Dec. 13, 2020, it was the #2 movie on the Apple TV app for Independent films.Lee Speigel is also the producer/host of an NBC Radio talk show, “The Edge of Reality,” which originally aired from 1982-'86. Lee is currently the managing editor of the UnX Magazine Quarterly exclusively for UnX Media at www.unxmedia.com

( To see the video of this show, click here: https://youtu.be/jjmxjBAaTEw ) Cristina's Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and More > https://beacons.page/cristinagomez Patreon Club for Extras & Behind the Scenes: https://www.patreon.com/paradigm_shifts Cristina talks with veteran Journalist, Writer, and UFO Researcher, Lee Speigel. Over the last five decades, he has researched and reported on many apects of UFOs and the paranormal via recordings, radio, television, print media, audio/video interviews and lectures. Get the USAF Cadet chapter 33 document by emailing Contact@LeeSpeigel.com and say Cristina sent you..!! From ABC, CBS, NBC, the United Nations, OMNI Magazine, AOL, The Huffington Post and KGRA Digital Broadcast Network, to co-producing/co-writing an important 2020 UFO documentary — “The Phenomenon” — I've presented the often-overlapping worlds of UFOs, Science and Unexplained Phenomena. Lee Speigel has presented credible, compelling stories about UFOs, Science and the Paranormal since 1975, when he produced and wrote a documentary record album, “UFOs: The Credibility Factor,” for CBS Inc. This marked the first time that a major recording company offered a UFO-related product to the public via a prime time TV infomercial. During production of his UFO album, Speigel and numerous law enforcement officers were involved in a historic UFO encounter in Lumberton, No. Carolina — the first well-documented, multiple witness, triangular-shaped UFO incident in America, highlighted in David Marler's 2013 book, “Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation.” Shifting the Paradigm is a weekly Talk Show with guests from a wide variety of specialized fields of research related to the Paranormal - the Supernatural - the Unexplained - UAP / UFOs - Aliens - and the Mysterious.

Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with... Debra Jordan-Kauble, who was the “Kathie Davis” in Budd Hopkins' classic book on alien abduction, Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Fields that was published in 1987. Deb is the author of Extraordinary Contact: Life Beyond Intruders, which was published in June of this year. Extraordinary Contact is an updated edition of Abducted! The Story of the Intruders Continues, which was originally published in 1994. We met Budd in 1987 when we covered a UFO conference in Hollywood Florida for OMNI Magazine. We'd read Missing Time and Intruders and it was a pleasure to meet him and spend time with him. We even had the opportunity to drive him to another town for a regression with a woman he'd talked with on a radio show. We always wondered who the real Kathy Davis was. Now we know. https://debshome.com

Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year annual series, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles. Forthcoming are When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson  and the reprint anthology Body Shocks. She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.Ellen DatlowKGB BarBody Shocks, Ellen Datlow, editorWhen Things Get Dark, stories inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, editorEllen Datlow, Awards ListEllen Datlow, BooksTOR.COMWilliam GibsonElizabeth HandJonathan CarrollBruce Sterling on The Bookshop Podcast, episode 28  Support the show (https://paypal.me/TheBookshopPodcast?locale.x=en_US)

3:29:36 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Animal Crackers, junk sleuthing, old computer files, Omni Magazine, spoonerisms, Brood X cicadas, bug spray, weeds, Disney World Resort Map 1971, Popee the Performer, Magma, streaming services, chaos, Aromax Premium Black Coffee, Fourtha Losta, Tarot Port, Zelazny’s Amber series, Buena Park Mall, AI time […]

3:29:36 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Animal Crackers, junk sleuthing, old computer files, Omni Magazine, spoonerisms, Brood X cicadas, bug spray, weeds, Disney World Resort Map 1971, Popee the Performer, Magma, streaming services, chaos, Aromax Premium Black Coffee, Fourtha Losta, Tarot Port, Zelazny’s Amber series, Buena Park Mall, AI time […]

E112 - He wasn't supposed to live past 1985, yet here we are sitting down with Reverend Steve Pieters! Hear the incredible life story of this inspiring pastor and long-term survivor of AIDS. His interview with televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985 turned the Christian and LGBTQ communities both upside down, a storyline featured in the upcoming film "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield, coming out September 2021. Steve discusses his background growing up gay in the 1950's, his journey into religious studies and leadership, the reality of his sickness in the early 80's, and his miraculous story of recovery. He explains his near death experience in detail, and tells how this new knowledge influenced how he helped others with AIDS. Hear about his relationship to Albert Einstein, his discovery and career with the Metropolitan Community Church, and his current love with the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles. He even sings an original show tune "Medical Anomaly!" We hope you enjoy this amazing tale of recovery and hope. INFO: You can find Rev. Steve Pieters on Instagram and Twitter @aspieters, and on Facebook MEDIA: You'll find Steve's story in the following in The Los Angeles Sunday Times, Time Magazine, Omni Magazine, Life Magazine, CNN, Headline News, Tammy's House Party with Tammy Faye Bakker, CBS This Morning, The Tom Snyder Show, America Talks Back, Real Life with Jane Pauley, many local tv and digital sources, the 2000 documentary and 2021 drama films "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," and in the play AIDS US/II. His story is in books Surviving AIDS by Michael Callen, Voices That Care by Neal Hitchens, and Don't Be Afraid Anymore by Rev. Troy D. Perry. He has written a series of articles for Journey magazine about his experiences with AIDS, which have been collected with other writings of his in the book, I'm Still Dancing. APPEARANCES: His appearances include as a speaker at the first annual AIDS benefit dinner with Elizabeth Taylor and First Lady Betty Ford, as a presenter of Buddy of the Year Award to Whoopi Goldberg at the third APLA benefit, and as a guest at the first AIDS Prayer Breakfast at the White House, with his conversation referenced by President Bill Clinton in the World AIDS Day speech on December 1, 1993. You will currently find Steve singing with the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles and giving sermons at MCC. AWARDS: Rev. Pieters has received many many awards for his ministry in the AIDS crisis from many churches and religious groups. He received an Honorary Doctor of Ministry Degree from Samaritan College the seminary of the MCC, the prestigious Sheldon Andelson Award from the Stonewall Democratic Club, and the Sandra L. Robinson Award from Community Unity in Dayton, Ohio. In October, 2019, examples of his work in AIDS Ministry and of his life as a person with HIV/AIDS were placed in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.  See his full bio on https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7044504 Video podcast version on http://bit.ly/youtubeMW Thank you so much for watching and listening! Song Credits: Mouse and Weens theme by Julianne Eggold Voice Actor: Matt Thompson Please follow and contact us via Instagram | Twitter | Facebook @mouseandweens We’d love to hear from you about the show or just to talk at (858) 206-8746 or mouseandweens@gmail.com. A transcript of this episode is on http://www.mouseandweens.com Promos: PodFix Presents, part of https://PodFixNetwork.com Sponsor: Dream Dinners! Get your life back at dinner time. Quickly make homemade meals and have more quality time for you and your family! Please try this out. Dream Dinners is nationwide. It really has taken the stress out of dinner time! If within 25 miles of the Poway or San Marcos locations, choose pickup or delivery and MOUSEANDWEENS99 for $99 off your first order! Visit link on http://www.mouseandweens.com Thank you to our patrons for joining our family!

Tonight we’re chatting with Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren, authors of Tool Tales: Microfiction Inspired By Antique Tools. Multi-award winning creators Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren teamed up on Facebook a few years ago when Ellen posted photos of antique tools and Kaaron wrote microfiction pieces to accompany them, without either of them knowing what the tools were for.The publishers at IFWG would like you to know that if you would like to enter a drawing for a free print (or mobi/epub) copy tonight’s book, all you need to do is subscribe to the IFWG newsletter and fill out details for the drawing – just go to ifwgaustralia.com/treasures. About the authors:Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren published her first short story in 1993 and has had fiction in print every year since. She was recently given the Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award and was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy 2018, Stokercon 2019 and Geysercon 2019. Kaaron was a Fellow at the Museum for Australian Democracy, where she researched prime ministers, artists and serial killers. She’s judged the World Fantasy Awards and the Shirley Jackson Awards.She has published five multi-award winning novels (Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole and Tide of Stone) and seven short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls. She has won the ACT Writers and Publishers Award four times and twice been awarded the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novella, Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Press), was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award, winning the Aurealis Award.Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited many anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year series and Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, and the reprint anthologies Edited By and Body Shocks. She’s won multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards plus the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre” and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.She runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in the east village, NYC, with Matthew Kressel.

Tonight we’re chatting with Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren, authors of Tool Tales: Microfiction Inspired By Antique Tools. Multi-award winning creators Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren teamed up on Facebook a few years ago when Ellen posted photos of antique tools and Kaaron wrote microfiction pieces to accompany them, without either of them knowing what the tools were for.The publishers at IFWG would like you to know that if you would like to enter a drawing for a free print (or mobi/epub) copy tonight’s book, all you need to do is subscribe to the IFWG newsletter and fill out details for the drawing – just go to ifwgaustralia.com/treasures. About the authors:Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren published her first short story in 1993 and has had fiction in print every year since. She was recently given the Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award and was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy 2018, Stokercon 2019 and Geysercon 2019. Kaaron was a Fellow at the Museum for Australian Democracy, where she researched prime ministers, artists and serial killers. She’s judged the World Fantasy Awards and the Shirley Jackson Awards.She has published five multi-award winning novels (Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole and Tide of Stone) and seven short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls. She has won the ACT Writers and Publishers Award four times and twice been awarded the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novella, Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Press), was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award, winning the Aurealis Award.Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited many anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year series and Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, and the reprint anthologies Edited By and Body Shocks. She’s won multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards plus the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre” and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.She runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in the east village, NYC, with Matthew Kressel.

Ellen Datlow -Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than a hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year, Lovecraft's Monsters, Fearful Symmetries, Nightmare Carnival, The Doll Collection, The Monstrous, Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror, and Black Feathers. Forthcoming are Haunted Nights (with Lisa Morton), and Mad Hatters and March Hares (stories inspired by Alice's Adventures in in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There). https://ellendatlow.com/

Brothers Drew and Eric discuss the iconic 1986’s David Cronenberg film The Fly. Spoiler: it stands the test of time! Along the way they discuss The Write Along Podcast, Omni Magazine, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text based computer game, Untitled Goose Game, Death Stranding, The World According to Jeff Goldblum, BBC / Netflix's Dracula series (2020), Into the Badlands (TV series), Kung Fu (TV series), and Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker File length 53:06 File Size 43.5 MB     Theme by Jul Big Green via SongFinch Subscribe to us on iTunes Listen to us on Stitcher Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Send your comments to show@notinacreepyway.com Visit the show website at www.notinacreepyway.com

EPISODE #335 HAUNTED WORLD WAR ll Richard welcomes a writer to discuss the paranormal legacy of the Second World War. GUEST: Matthew L. Swayne is a journalist who currently works as a research writer at Penn State. Matt has worked as a reporter and as a music reviewer for several newspapers and online outlets, such as CentreDaily.com and Music.com. He is a regular contributor to the recently revitalized version of Omni Magazine, called Omni Reboot. He writes the Anti-Matter column, which looks at fringe science and the paranormal, for the online magazine. He has also worked on writing projects with Paranormal State's Eilfie Music. Balancing skepticism with an open mind, Matt uses his experience in journalism and interest in both ghost lore and the paranormal to collect and tell stories about the supernatural. He is the author of several books, including Haunted World War ll.   PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!! Ancient Life Oil Organic, Non GMO CBD Oil.  Big Relief in a Little Bottle! The Ferrari of CBD products. Change and Formula 13 Teas  All Organic, No Caffeine, Non GMO!  More Energy!  Order now, use the code 'unlimited' and your first purchase ships for free. C60EVO.COM The Secret is out about this powerful anti-oxidant. The Purest C60 available is ESS60.  Buy Direct from the SourceUse the Code RS1SPEC for special discount. Strange Planet's Fullscript Dispensary - an online service offering hundreds of professional supplement brands, personal care items, essential oils, pet care products and much more. Nature Grade, Science Made!    

In October 1951, Collier's Magazine gave over an entire weekly issue to imagining a possible war with the Soviet Union and its aftermath. Perhaps in the midst of American Cold War anxiety, this issue seemed less patently insane. But to a modern reader it's hard to fathom how Collier's got more than twenty authors to embark on a project that feels like one part anti-communist propaganda and one part teenage war fantasy. Also this week: a special issue of Penthouse that imagined sex in outer space (while also previewing the launch of OMNI Magazine).

Everything You Like Is Garbage: You know the creepy feeling of walking into a dark room and finding your kid hunched over the iPad with their eyes glazed over? So do we. On this week’s episode, Paul and Rich talk about addiction and obsession —  words that are used interchangeably but that speak to different experiences. What kind of parenting decisions need to be made when kids are addicted to screens? What are Silicon Valley parents doing for their kids in response to the tech they push into the world? We discuss how kids are adaptable and curious — Rich, for example, grew up in a bookless home on a steady diet of Tom and Jerry cartoons, and he turned out fine! We also let you in on our own obsessions, chocolate, watches and old book collections.   Links littleBits Interactive Electronic Toys Silicon Valley Nannies are Phone Police for Kids A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley  Elsagate     Transcript Rich Ziade It is something! There is— it’s about two-thirds of the way into eating the chocolate. It’s kind of odd and then— Paul Ford You can’t chew. RZ You can’t— no, you won’t get it. You won’t get that buzz. PF It lives under your mouth. It’s— it’s like— it’s like a drug. RZ It is and it starts to hit like brain centers. PF Yeah— RZ And it gets weird. PF It’s like Klonopin for rich people. RZ [Laughing] So melting Klonopin. PF Yeah [music fades in, plays alone for 18 seconds, ramps down]. We should talk about the things that we’re obsessed about that aren’t technology. Just to frame it a little bit. RZ Ok. PF You like chocolate. RZ I really, really good chocolate. PF It’s pretty exhausting. I gotta be honest, to— to be your friend but, at the same time, once I finally gave in and was like, “Alright, let em have it.” Cuz your— you’ll come up with what looks like a— like an overpriced candy bar and you’ll be like, “If you chew this I’ll punch you in the face, ok?” And the first few times I’m like, “This is just annoying.” I’m just waiting for something to get squishy. But then the reality is that with some of them you give em a minute— RZ It’s kind of incredible. PF And they start telling you a little story. RZ Yeah. PF They’re like, “Oh I was once a bean in the mountains [yeah] of Vietnam [yeah] and then someone picked me and then I’m— nothing really too much happened to me after that because I’m a single source [sings] chocolate bar!” [Both laugh] What are some of the brands? RZ Uh there’s a— a brand called Amadi. By the way— PF Yeah that’s the one. [1:39] RZ— Godiva. Godiva is like— PF Booo! RZ— is like— PF No, that’s the thing: lemme just tell everyone: everything— every chocolate you’ve ever liked, unless you’re in this world, is garbage and you’re an animal for eating it. RZ Ok. So. Godiva is like the Banana Republic of chocolate. PF Right. RZ It’s kind of pitched as higher end [Paul laughs] — PF It’s khaki pants of chocolate. RZ [Laughing] But it’s actually if you really go shop at Barney’s [yeah] and the fancier shops, Banana Republic isn’t really higher end. Tell me— tell me one of your obsessions, Paul. PF [Sighs] I have a lot of nerd obsessions like I, you know— RZ We all do. PF Yeah. Non-nerd: I really do like getting on eBay and looking at old books, like— and especially lots of books like— like eBay lots, like thousands of books or— RZ Like you’ll get three boxes. PF Yeah, not three! Sometimes 2,000. Sometimes it’s like the whole library is— is the personal library is getting unloaded or the— the used bookstore is going out of business. And I think there’s a lot of intertwining fantasies there which is like I love books. Still do [yeah]. I mostly don’t buy them anymore because they take up a lot of space; I live in an apartment, and— [sighs] — RZ And you read on your phone. [2:45] PF I read on my phone and I have enough stuff. RZ Yeah, yeah, yeah. PF But there’s a part of me that just really appreciates books. The— I still have thousands at home and I like to through them, I like to look at them. And I have associations with all the spines and— and sort of what they all mean [yeah sure] and I love old reference books, things like that. So I really like older stuff. There’s— it’s funny because I— I love, you know, there’s a part of me that really feels I should be interested in like rare volumes from the 1600s, like that’s the true bibliophile [hmm] but it’s not. What I like is the old encyclopedia from like 1890 about manners or about etiquette [hmm] or just like random stuff [yeah]. So they’re very soothing, these obsessions. RZ And I get it. And— and— first off: you make me sound like an eight-year-old. We talked about chocolate for a minute and then— PF No— RZ— we got into your wonderful obsession with books. PF [Chuckles] Not really because uh we— we should share with the YouTube video— or we should share the YouTube video of people eating the Almandi chocolate and sniffing to the sound of Steely Dan. That— they put up— RZ That’s Joe Cocker. [Paul laughs] It’s bad. It’s not good. It’s not good. PF And this is not— this is not for kids is what that says. RZ No. No. This is for sophisticated adults. PF You need to really enjoy the fine stylings of Joe Cocker. RZ While you eat chocolate. Are obsessions good? PF I think that— well it really depends. There’s some really bad obsessions that people can get. RZ Addiction. PF There’s addiction and then there’s also like I— I don’t know [sighs] it’s a real— it’s a really tricky one. The Kardashians is a good example. Some people have a really fun, silly relationship with that show and they think it’s [mm hmm] really interesting and they get a kick out of it and it tells them something about their own lives and they really like. Other people are— are just hating themselves cuz they can’t have a 4,000 dollar handbag. [4:32] RZ Right they’re not gonna be happy. PF Yeah. RZ It’s— it’s an— an unreachable quality of life, status, that just people dream about and obsess over. That’s a bad obsession. That’s a bad obsession. PF The chocolate is ultimately like a relatively medium-sized indulgence. You know, it’s just— RZ It’s— it’s also— PF It’s literally the— RZ It’s ephemeral. I’m not gonna put it in a shel— on a shelf. PF No, it’s the cache you have in your— I don’t really want the books when I’m looking at them. RZ I don’t— I mean I wanna eat the chocolates and that’s that. [Stammers] — PF I pulled a few triggers. I got— I wanted um old copies of The Whole Earth Review which is kind of an unusual magazine that came out in the eighties. And— nerdy, but I wanted copies of Omni Magazine which was like an early— RZ I remember Omni. PF I wanted the originals. I wanted to see the ads. I wanted to remember [yeah] sort of how it felt [yeah]. So I bought those. It cost a couple hundred bucks. So I mean it’s— it’s— there’s— and then they took up— they take up a lot of shelf space though and then I’m like— RZ It’s the feeling of this thing that I think about a lot, that I possibly can’t have, and when I do have it, I find some joy. I mean you— [I think there’s—]. You’re not well if you’re sitting there rubbing the book for days on end. PF That’s right. RZ Like that’s not what it’s a— I— I like watches. It’s another [that’s right]. I don’t know if I’d call it an obsession. [5:42] PF I don’t— it’s not an obsession. It seems to be that there’s almost a therapeutic function, right? Where you’re like, “I’m kinda stressed or stuff is going on or I just like— I need something to do for a half hour to settle my brain down.” And that’s when I see you creep over to your RSS feed of watch blogs. RZ Awristocrat! PF That might be— RZ That’s spelled W-R-I-S-T. I don’t wanna collect em. I like having them. I tend to get tired of them— PF I can vouch for this. RZ I don’t really want a room like a closet full of watches lined up. PF Well and also not to get into the numbers but we know some people that have done really, insanely well for themselves. Your collection is very nice and very special and very lovely but it’s not earth shattering. RZ No. No. PF You— you have— it’s not museum quality. RZ Not only that, I don’t want them long term [yeah]. I mean there are a couple that I’ve tied to events in my life that I’ll probably hold onto but the other’s are like, oh— ok. That was fun. PF Yeah— RZ That’s the thing. PF I got my pleasure out of this— RZ It’s not a material possession thing. Or an asset. Some people are like, “If I hold onto this for 20 years it’ll be worth three times as much.” PF It really is about the emotional reaction. RZ Yes. PF I think once you get into the asset that’s a whole different set of emotions, right? RZ Yeah. [6:47] PF Like for me I have limited— I don’t wanna move— I have limited shelf space [yeah] and so there’s a sort of like, what’s the most meaningful things I could put on that shelf? And then— RZ Question. Let me ask you a question: is it— do you love the physical object when you talk about your books or are you talking about just purely the content— [Paul sighs] cuz if it’s the content you could probably find it online or wherever. PF Oh the content’s everywhere. Yeah that’s not my worry. RZ Is it the physical thing? PF It’s the physical thing. It’s the space it takes up. Like how am I gonna apportion that space? What’s valuable? RZ No, no, but your love for it to begin with? PF I really do love it and the one of the things— RZ The physical thing. PF If— if I had more time, I would spend more of that time like with books and a notebook. That would be really satisfying. RZ Ok. PF I actually have a process, I really like reading. Occasionally I see something interesting, I would take a picture of it and tweet it [yeah]. Like that would be pure happiness for me [yeah]. I just don’t— especially with having little kids like, you know, they go to bed around 8:30 and I— I just am not gonna sit at a table and read for two hours. RZ Yes. PF I’m gonna goof off and watch some TV and answer emails. RZ Alright so let’s pivot into something that’s kind of, sort of sits as a juxtaposition when people talk about experiences today. Now, even if you weighed into our industry— PF Well I can— I can bridge this for you. There was just a big Apple event, it was held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. [8:03] RZ That’s a beautiful space, by the way. PF It is. It is. RZ I live near it. PF Somebody was worried that— that Apple had bought it. RZ Dude, there were Apple flags [Paul laughs] all around the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and, by the way, there’s an Apple Store across the street from the Brooklyn Academy of Music [Listen—] that is absolutely striking and it looked like it was over. PF Yeah. RZ [Laughs] The dictator had arrived— PF Like there’s a big floating— RZ— the flags had been planted. PF There’s a giant Tim Cook head just sorta hovering. RZ [Laughs] Yeah and it’s like— yeah. And— and— PF “Strength through iOS.” RZ And you better start singing their song. If you don’t start singing their song, they’re gonna put you on the trucks and off you go. PF I think a third of America would probably pledge to Apple if it said, “We are the new government.” RZ I think so! So it looked weird, you know why? Because it was— it was nondescript. Apple being Apple there wasn’t a single word about what was happening. PF Right, so it’s just like, “Our presence is here.” RZ It was just apples with swirls of colors modify— modifying the logo. That’s the experience and look [stammers] — [8:59] PF Well and Apple’s— people have been obsessed with the Apple brand since the seventies. RZ Yes. Because it tried to humanize something that was— that felt very difficult to touch and to come near. PF And then, I mean, even before Steve Jobs, there were pictures— people shaving the Apple logo in their heads. And then— RZ It was a big deal. PF— as Jobs sort of made it more and more kind of this cult of quality, it got more and more intense, and I think that didn’t exactly scale. RZ No but— PF The brand works harder than any other brand. RZ It really does and— and they’re— I mean you can’t deny the craft that is— that is just— PF Well this is supreme, I mean I have— RZ— touching every aspect of the product. PF It’s almost inconceivable how— what these things are. Like every little piece represents thousands and thousands of person hours [yes] of unbelievable labor going back 40, 50 years. I mean they— they just are kinda— they just encapsulate all human culture [yes] into this tiny little box. RZ Well, I mean, we’ve really reached a threshold where I think we’re— people are starting to get scared. We talked a few minutes ago about obsession being get. Like your love of books is just a wonderful thing to talk through and talk about. I love watches but I’m not consumed by them. You wouldn’t call it an addiction. And what you’re hearing more and more of lately is the— the words obsession and addiction being used kind of interchangeably. PF That’s right and we’re very worried about children and phones. RZ Children and phones [yeah] and there was some articles— PF And iPads and— RZ Yeah. There were some articles recently where The New York Times said that in silicon valley, where they conjured up all this shit, they’re obsessed with their kids not using their phones. PF That’s right. I have an answer: just get your kids Chromebooks [music fades in] because they wanna throw those in the garbage. It’s wonderful. RZ Hard. PF Oh I love it. RZ It’s hard [music plays alone for six seconds, ramps down]. PF Rich, let’s interrupt our marketing podcast [music fades out] to do some marketing. RZ Despite what all these inventions do to your brain, Postlight’s really good at building them. PF We are [Rich laughing]. No matter what. No matter how many children’s brains are ruined by small devices [Rich laughs], um we are the device children ruiner— no, we’re not. We make really great software— RZ We channel a very different set of obsessions around great design, great engineering to build really great apps, really great platforms. PF We’re ethically concerned, too, we’re not going for addition. We’re not that kinda shop. RZ No, no. PF You call us because you have a business model and you want— now we love when people engage and are connected to stuff. RZ Yes. PF You know, we want people to really— RZ No, engagement’s part of success for us, for sure. PF We love people to use our stuff but we’re not— we’re not trying to figure out how to keep you on that phone for eight hours a day. Uh but we can help people— you know, when they open up a Postlight app, they think, “Wow, this looks, behaves, and operates exactly like the other really good apps that I’m used to.” We are— we’re at a very high level of quality, we take it very seriously. It’s— we’re not the cheapest for that reason but we’re pretty good. RZ Very reasonable. [11:59] PF We are overall when people work with us over time they come back again and again and again. We love that. RZ Visit postlight.com and you will see a bunch of work [music fades in]. PF That is true. Take a look at our work and send an email to hello@postlight.com [music plays alone for six seconds]. First of all: most of what children like to do with a screen is consume media. RZ Sure. PF When we grew up, we had, you know, Commodores and Amigas and Macs and whatever and you had to do computer things with computers because they wouldn’t play videos. Not really. Not until the nineties, and even then it was like little crappy videos [yup]. The current state is, you know, which of a hundred billion hours of video can I watch before somebody realizes that— you know, like when my parents are sleeping in, I wanna— like my kids will just sort of negotiate for computer time and the computer time that they want is Netflix and YouTube. RZ Understandably. PF Yup. RZ I mean it’s kind of magical. You’re holding this thing that’s a pound. PF It’s not just that though. They— if I remind them or if I say, “No, you can’t have that but you can have,” and then the number two thing that they like to do— and there’s lots of games on there, cuz it’ll play Android games, I will say like, you know, it’s just like Barbie— RZ Shopping Barbie. PF Yeah, Shopping Barbie or weird like princess games and so on and [yeah] there’s a profile of my children in Russia that’s probably about 700 pages long at this point [Rich laughs] but the um if I say, “You know what? Take some time on Google Maps and go look around Staten Island,” they love it. RZ I mean that’s wonderful. It’s exploration. PF They get to see the whole world. They get to see it. RZ Sure. Sure. [13:34] PF It’s like— like you’d imagine with kids, they wanna see their house [yeah] and then they wanna see their school and then they’re like, “I’ve been there,” and it’ll be relatively close by, it’s Grand Army Plaza [of course]. So they love that and then Google knows everywhere my children are looking and that’s cool. RZ And they’re in your house. Yeah. [Paul laughs]. So ok so. Let’s bring this into the whole— PF Well see Netflix— RZ “Ok. Let’s avoid kid addiction blah blah blah.” PF I mean let’s look at how the different companies react to this, right? Like Netflix just goes online, “You’re gonna binge watch this garbage and we’re gonna continue to shovel it down your baby bird mouths and you’re gonna give us money every month. You’re gonna forget how much you’re paying and you’re just gonna suck it up through your nose like cocaine.” RZ Worth noting: there is no setting, in Netflix, to not make another show start when one ends. PF Oh yeah! RZ It probably would take an engineer and a QA staff [no] a day to put this switch in. PF Netflix is the product equivalent of dumping a like a bag of candy hearts on the floor and saying, “Go, pig.” [Rich laughs] You’re— and you’re like, “I don’t even like candy hearts!” [Makes gross chomping sounds]. RZ “But ok!” [Laughs] PF That’s— that’s my experience of Netflix. RZ So. Alright. Let me— let me rant for a second here. It is scary I mean a kid— they do have a glazed look in their eyes if you leave em too long holding an iPad or a Chromebook. PF Oh, you know what’s bad? I got my kids sound cancelling headphones cuz I’ve got twins, right? [Oh god!] And they can’t— and I have this issue where every now and then the light’ll cut out in the room where it’s kind of my office space where they have their computers so I can watch them. So if I’ll like walk away, I tend to be kinda— I try to be close unless I’m asleep when they’re using the machines and they don’t get a lot of time with them but when you walk in and the room is dark and the screen is on their face and they’re wearing headphones, I’m like, “I am breeding monsters.” RZ Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [15:24] PF This is— like it needs to feel public and they need to be connected and near other humans when they’re using this stuff. I don’t— it’s pretty bad when they just lock in. RZ It’s scary. It’s scary. Right. So this is the fear and this fear is actually even more pronounced than Silicon Valley where they, frankly, invented a lot of this stuff which is, you know, New York Times wrote it up as almost this kind of irony. PF I’m so tired of all the drama though. “Oh! Oh! Oh!” Cuz here’s what— Silicon Valley’s so proud of itself for destroying the world. RZ It’s— PF They love to fantasize about all the incredible cultural power they have. They can’t build a skyscraper. RZ It’s this [both laugh] — PF [Laughing] That thing— they built one good skyscraper— RZ They can’t. After five stories, they’re fuckin’ confused. PF Everything is sinking! RZ They are confused. PF You know they’re like, “Oh hey, we dug a hole four blocks away and we destroyed this skyscraper.” I’m like— what did we— New York City [yeah], we sure as hell can’t build Google. RZ No. PF But, you know, we’ve been doing that since 1910 [Rich laughs], you know, maybe you could’ve sent somebody over. RZ It takes like three weeks. PF Seriously. RZ “Holy shit! When did that come up?!?” [16:24] PF Why don’t you just bring your— bring one of your iPhones out and take some pictures of the Woolworth building which went up [Rich laughs] in like 1915 and then take that back to San Francisco— what the hell, even email it over wireless. We have that in the parks. And uh and then maybe, you know, what you do is when you get the architectural renderings, I don’t know if they’ve ever seen this, you get the blueprints and you just write the words, “Don’t sink.” [Yeah] And that’s actually how the people in construction know but anyway San Franc— RZ They love to signal out that they’re seeing things that other people aren’t seeing. PF That’s right. RZ They love to say, “Oh my god—” PF They— oh yeah [whistles]. RZ “We are about three years ahead of this, guys, let’s talk this through.” PF The phone emergency. RZ All of it, right? PF Yeah, they’re really into like— this is the thing: they’re kinda missing climate— we’re not gonna get to really, really strong AI taking over the world before climate change destroys all the computers. Like we’ve, you know, [Rich laughs] like [stammers] like I know Moore’s Law. RZ We’re losing that race. PF I know Moore’s Law! We’re gonna get— it’ll just be like Seamless’ll be really fast and then one day there’ll be four feet of water in front of your door. Like you’re not gonna get a really great, intelligent assistant. RZ True. So wait! I mean is it legitimate? PF It’s a lot of consum— RZ We have to watch with these kids staring at their phones like passively? [17:32] PF Of course, of course you do. But you know what? God. Uh. As a parent, first of all: kids need to wind down like anyone else. It’s what you put in the brain. RZ Ok. PF Like uh maybe I’m lucky. I have good readers. I have very active, healthy kids. They’re healthier than I ever was. And they’re engaged and they have friends. They have all the regular problems that kids have, but it’s not cuz they’re watching an extra hour of Netflix every week. This is not really what we’re talking about. Now if my daughter was playing Candy Crush obsessively, you know, at age eight or nine, she’s seven now, then that’s an issue because that is like— that is a growing brain that has given itself entirely to Candy Crush. RZ Yeah. You have to diversify the experiences. PF And I have— my son likes YouTube cuz he loves to watch other people play video games and people are very paranoid about it— RZ Well that’s a big thing, right? PF I watch it really carefully. Everybody’s worried about strange alleys but, I don’t know, I keep a pretty close eye, I kinda know what’s in his cue and— RZ I’m not sure if that’s that much different from watching other people play sports. PF It’s like anything, I see— I have a little boy who loves to run and play soccer. RZ Again: same parallels, right? PF Yeah. RZ Uh I mean that kid needs to run and play soccer, otherwise they go bonkers, and like my boy but— PF If he tries to convince— RZ— frankly, watching sports isn’t [yeah] destroying anybody. Uh people have been doing it for many years. At first they couldn’t watch it, they’d have to listen to it. PF There’s so many other things to panic about. [18:58] RZ I’m gonna rant for a minute here. PF Rant! RZ My parents weren’t reading a lot of books. First off: there were no websites about how— we fled a war and we were immigrants in the country. I watched probably eight to twelve thousand hours of a mo— of a cat trying to eat a mouse. PF [Laughs] And What’s Happening!! RZ And [laughs] — PF There was a cluster of after school reruns on when we were kids. RZ Dude, it was— I— if you— we just— we just took a shit on Netflix. If you put on Netflix and wanna teach your kid the value of green vegetables [yeah] there is a cartoon for the value [oh yeah] like understanding and appreciating the value of green vegetables. PF Have you seen the show Hilda? RZ No. They’re all spectacular, dude. PF Oh it’s a charming narrative of a little girl with trolls. Oh, it’s wonderful. RZ Everybody’s learning manners! They’re learning how to eat [uh huh]; they’re learning about the world. There’s this show called Super Wings. PF That’s right. And when they’re ready for Hitler, there’s 40 or 50 thousand shows to watch. RZ Just a channel away [laughs]. PF Yeah! And then you switch to Amazon Prime and you got a hundred thousand. RZ [Laughs boisterously] So, look, man, I’m not saying I came out great. That’s questionable [Paul laughs] but shit! PF That’s a lot of podcast right there. RZ I watched a lot— a lot— my mom was a smoker and she was going through a lot of stuff [uh huh] and it was hard, it was a new country, and I am just eating up Tom and Jerry. It’s a cartoon where a cat is trying to eat a mouse [sure] and it’s the dumbest thing you ever saw and I thought it was really funny [mm hmm] and I’ve watched the same episodes of that cartoon probably hundreds of times and I’m ok. I think— [20:43] PF When did you— when did you actually start reading? Was it law school? Was it undergrad? Like not learning to read but like there’s a point where you started to read a lot of books and a lot of stuff. RZ It was probably undergrad. PF Yeah. RZ Yeah. PF That’s the big difference, right? Like I think the only thing that would’ve been different in your life is if you’d started earlier. RZ I think that’s right. I also was very fortunate you could pop open the back of an Apple 2 when I was 15. PF Yeah. See but you had to read and learn about how that worked too. RZ I did. I did. PF And, you know, you’re reading the catalogue, you’re reading the computer magazine. Like you wanted access to that world. RZ True. That’s true. PF Yeah so that— This is the thing that people miss about technology and I think this actually does get— it kinda takes us all the way back around. When you’re young, the world inside of that computer is a whole world and that was true whether it’s an Apple 2 or the phone, and it is actually— people are worried about Google and they’re worried about Apple. See I don’t— when you’re a kid and when you’re a teenager you know that there are forces outside of your control that are much bigger than you and you can’t tell which ones are good or bad and you don’t really trust any of them. RZ True. PF What kids are doing right now is they’re looking at their phones and sometimes they’re mindlessly consuming content. As they get older, most kids get real suspicious and they start to take it apart, and they start to wonder what’s going on. [21:55] RZ And I think that’s really cool and, you know, you’re seeing a lot of products out there like little bits and— and where you can actually take apart the toy and make a different toy out of the parts because there are no screws on that iPad. That thing is sealed tight [that’s right]. It’s just a magic box to them [mm hmm]. They have no idea. They don’t even call it a computer. It’s just this thing that just has an endless supply of stuff. PF Yeah and this is uh— RZ I want them to be able to interact which, by the way, there are some wonderful things out there on an iPad or on a Chromebook, where they interact and they explore [dude] and they learn and they build. I had none of that. PF Listen to me: we got you and me saying, “Oh it’s wonderful to explore.” And you’ve got the people in Silicon Valley saying, “Keep it away from them cuz it will destroy them.” You know what’s really gonna happen? Human beings have their own will and they’re pretty mischievous and they like to tear things apart like primates. RZ True. PF Teenagers will ruin everything. This current generation will come up and they will see Facebook and they will see Twitter and they will Google and they’ll be like, “What is this trash? It’s just been around forever.” RZ That’s very true. PF And you’re gonna go work at Google, it’s gonna be like going to work for the phone system when we were kids [yeah]. I mean it’s just like— this world will collapse into itself and that doesn’t mean that billionaires won’t remain billionaires or giant organizations won’t exist, it just means that tech moves fast, people can create what they want in order to communicate, and nobody maintains a lock in. So I’m just sort of like— we’re talking and we’re worrying about children because they don’t seem to have a lot of power but they have a lot of will, and they will start tearing all this stuff down to shreds. RZ I think that’s exactly right. PF And if you won’t let it and you lock em down, then they’ll go do something else. RZ And— and I think the best thing we can do is to encourage that. I do think there’s a crossing point that if you let that kid— I do have— I’ve had friends over and they’re ten or 12 and— [23:41] PF Oh and the kid just stares. RZ He’s— he’s just not— they’re it’s their babysitter, right? PF Yeah, see— RZ And the iPad is in their hands and their heads are down and they don’t— they don’t even say hello. PF My kids— my kids wanted an iPad at four and I was like, “Eh.” [No] Cuz it’s too much like candy. Just little rectangles of delicious candy. RZ It’s the passcode for us. We have an iPad, they don’t know it. And if we tell them, “You’re gonna get 15 minutes,” you’ll get 15 minutes. PF Yeah. What is your— let’s close out on this: what is your um we said non-nerd obsessions earlier [mm hmm]. What’s your nerd obsession? RZ Emulation. PF Oh really?!? RZ I love emulation. PF It’s funny cuz we don’t talk about this that much but I’m pretty obsessed with it too. RZ I know. It’s so cool. It just makes me happy. PF Tell the people what emulation is. RZ Emulation is when a machine transforms itself to behave entirely like another machine. So if you own— PF Usually an older machine. Not always. But usually. RZ Usually an older machine. I remember when they tried to press the gas and like the N64 emulator came out around when the N64 was out. PF Yeah, it was like Mario could hop once a minute. [24:42] RZ [Laughs] But you know I mean credit to them for trying it’s like, “Wait a minute, it’s the same CPU, we can do this.” PF This is— this is the super nerd like power play is to be an emulator writer cuz— RZ Ah! It’s so badass! PF— what you’re doing, you’re simulating another piece of hardware in software. RZ Yeah. It’s so cool. PF So that people can like play their games or run their software. RZ And when the archive put out like, “Yeah. Here’s 11,000 arcade games you can play in your browser.” It’s over. PF Internet Archive, yeah. That’s good. That’s the work of our friend, Jason Scott. RZ And I was like, “Well, that’s that!” PF And thousands of other people over time. RZ Uh it’s just really cool. It’s cool cuz I like to see the glitchy startup. I like— [yeah] I like to see it boot up cuz it’s truly emulating. It’s not a port. PF No and it’s rough around the edges, you know, you’re just like, “Oh this is where we came from.” RZ What about you? PF I like to research things actually. So lately I’ve been researching storage a lot. Like there’s just— I wanna know like what would it take to get a petabyte of information. This is actually inspired by Alan Kay who was a really uh important thinker in early technology and sort of big at Xerox PARC who at one point wrote an article about how what they were building was sort of the ten, 15 year later computer. You know they’re— they built these computers at Xerox that cost like 120,000 dollars in the seventies so like as much as a house. RZ Yeah. PF And— but they were trying to be desktop computers and I’m just sort of thinking to myself like what would the equivalent machine be for 15 years from now? And it’s gonna something like that— it’s gonna be, you know, what we think of now as almost infinite storage and [yeah] the processors can’t get too much faster but there were gonna be a lot more of them and there’ll be lots of little— so I just sort of— I like to continually come back to that mental exercise because the moment that we’re in now where five companies control the world and— and everything is sort of online and works in a certain way is going to change. And I just— I need to keep that in my head so that I feel like I’m adapting and ready for the future. [26:36] RZ Right. Growing up, Paul, I loved Legos. PF Sure! RZ And what I loved about them is obviously that they allowed you to be creative [mm hmm]. You could build stuff. I used to build houses and if you looked in the window of the house there was a little living room [mm hmm] cuz I’d make a couch and put it in the house [oh yeah] and a little table and a little TV. And my— my son gets Lego box gifts all the time. PF Oh god yeah. No. Infinite supply. RZ And they suck. PF Yeah. RZ Because it’s a little bat mobile. PF Yeah. RZ And the pieces are extremely specific to building just that batmobile and the instruction manual is 22 pages of how to make the batmobile and nothing else. And they— they have taken all the oxygen out of the room and there is no room for creativity and he can’t do anything else with those pieces. And this is more fundamentally my fear with where technology’s gone in that the controls that have been imposed— PF “Follow these instructions to get this great outcome.” RZ And you can’t come outside those guardrails, right? Like you can’t leap em. PF Well cuz that used to be you were exploring your world and kind of figuring out— humans, you know, we’re primates. We wanna know where’s the— where are the boundaries? What’s the territory we can get to? [Exactly] What kind of power can we have? And you had a power where you were like, “I can make a house.” RZ Yes. [27:54] PF “I am a house maker. I wasn’t that before and now I am.” RZ Exactly. Exactly. PF I will say it is fun to see, you know, I’ve got seven year old twins and now they get those and they follow the instructions together and they make them and then they tear them apart and they go into the mulch supply of the regular Legos which they still play with. So it’s working— it’s working at that age but [yeah] it— it actually— when they were younger which your son’s about a year younger, when they would get the toy, they would really feel obligated towards the toy. RZ “I want the thing on the box” PF That’s right. RZ And that was it. And that was it. And beyond that and when you broke apart, which is did, it’s Legos. PF Of course. RZ They viewed it as broken. PF No, it— as they grow that becomes a more ephemeral experience except for the people who get obsessed with Legos and want everything to be perfect. RZ Right. PF So, obsessions! Good or bad? RZ Who knows?!? [Music fades in.] PF Alright, Rich, let’s get out of here. RZ Yeah, I wanna go use my phone. PF I’m gonna have some chocolate. You getting chocolate? RZ And I’m gonna stare at my watch while I eat chocolate. I have chocolate. I will give you chocolate. We will have a couple of chocolate links next to the podcast. PF You know if you ever wanna work with us, there’s a very good chance you will have a piece of chocolate given to you in that first meeting. RZ Excellent chance. PF You just have to bring it up. We don’t like to showcase this too much cuz— RZ No. No, no. PF— people are like, “What?!” RZ “What wrong . . . with this person?” PF Yeah but if you want that piece of chocolate and even if you just want a little conversation: hello@postlight.com. That email goes straight to me and Rich and uh we like to talk. RZ Have a great week. PF Bye, everybody [music ramps up, plays alone for five seconds, fades out to end].

The esteemed Ellen Datlow has chosen to speak with me for reasons yet unknown. I am humbled and honored. Her website states these achievements with more clarity than I ever could: "Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than a hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year, Lovecraft’s Monsters, Fearful Symmetries, Nightmare Carnival, The Doll Collection, The Monstrous, Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror, and Black Feathers. Forthcoming are Haunted Nights (with Lisa Morton), and Mad Hatters and March Hares (stories inspired by Alice’s Adventures in in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There). Award-Winning Editor of More Than 100 Anthologies Ellen Datlow has won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Ellen Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention." http://datlow.com/ Twitter: @EllenDatlow https://www.facebook.com/EllenDatlow https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/

Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. | Host - Marlene Pardo Pellicer

Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than ninety science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year, The Doll Collection, Black Feathers, and Mad Hatters and March Hares.   Forthcoming are The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea and Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories. She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre," and has been honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association and by the World Fantasy Convention.   She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar.  More information can be found at www.datlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter as @EllenDatlow. Show Notes: The Complete Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde Irving Stone The President's Lady Nancy Drew Note: At the 18:11 minute mark, Lisa's voice has a terrible echo; at the 20:04 minute mark, Mackenzie's voice echoes. The issue doesn't repeat throughout the rest of the episode, so bear with us!  Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, coming November 2018 "Shit Happens", by Michael Marshall Smith, in The Devil and the Deep anthology "Haunt", by Siobhan Carroll, in The Devil and the Deep anthology Stephen Graham Jones "Broken Record" in The Devil and the Deep anthology Mongrels Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe Kirkus article that Ellen mentions: "How Ellen Datlow and the Authors of The Devil and the Deep Created Your Next Great Read" Jaws Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Sea Center Sir John Tenniel -- Alice in Wonderland illustrator Angela Slatter Genevieve Valentine Seanan McGuire Priya Sherma Yan Svankmajer's Alice (1988) Dreamchild (1985) Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson

On this edition we tune up the ghostly guitar, kill the lights and take the stage of haunted rock n' roll. Join as author & musical historian. Takes on aparanormal journey of the rocking variety! About Matt: Matthew L. Swayne is a journalist who currently works as a research writer at Penn State. Matt has worked as a reporter and as a music reviewer for several newspapers and online outlets, such as CentreDaily.com and Music.com. He is a regular contributor to the recently revitalized version of Omni Magazine, called Omni Reboot. He writes the Anti-Matter column, which looks at fringe science and the paranormal, for the online magazine. He has also worked on writing projects with Paranormal State's Eilfie Music. Balancing skepticism with an open mind, Matt uses his experience in journalism and interest in both ghost lore and the paranormal to collect and tell stories about the supernatural.  

Paul and Gary review Omni Magazine's revival

Rajan and Devin sit down with esteemed editor, Ellen Datlow, to talk about editing, movies, horror, and doll heads.  Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than a hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year, Lovecraft’s Monsters, Fearful Symmetries, The Doll Collection,, The Monstrous, Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror, Black Feathers,  Haunted Nights (with Lisa Morton), and Mad Hatters and March Hares (stories inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There). Forthcoming are The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, and The Best of the Best (covering the first Ten volumes of the Best Horror of the Year series). She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention. She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at www.datlow.com, on Facebook, and on twitter as @EllenDatlow.

Kal Korff - Armed with an IQ of 219, according to the Omni Magazine's World's Hardest IQ Test; known worldwide for solving numerous mysteries, whether they are criminal, historical, scientific, or even "paranormal," - Kal Korff is an Author, Broadcaster, Columnist and Investigative Journalist known for his hard-hitting exposes and doing original research. Korff's enormously popular column, "Kal's Korner", appears at least three times a day in print and is read by millions around the world each week in several languages. In addition, "Kal's Korner" also appears on the popular syndicated radio program The "X" Zone Radio Show, hosted by famed Canadian Broadcaster, Rob McConnell. Kal Korff has pioneered original concepts and techniques in several fields of study. These include archaeology, artificial intelligence, computing, criminology, forensics, graphical user interfaces, historical research, human interface design, hypermedia, multimedia, nanotechnology, physics, and weaponry. Kal has written and has had published more than 5,000 articles and materials in 64 magazines and newspapers around the world. Since 1975, he has lectured to more than 300,000 people in the United States and Europe. A passionate and driven researcher, Korff has worked for companies such as Atari, Xerox, Apple Computer, Claris, The Boeing Company, and was a security-cleared Senior Systems Analyst, Level III, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the original U.S. Government-funded Strategic Defense Initiative or "Star Wars" program. A Broadcaster, Lecturer, Producer and Teacher, Korff devotes his life to humanitarian causes and issues of universal importance. Kal's original insights and expertise have allowed him to contribute content or appear on virtually every major talk show and TV network, including ABC, CNN's Larry King Live!, FOX, Discovery Channel, MSNBC, National Geographic TV, Entertainment Tonight and NBC's Leeza. Additionally, Kal has been featured or quoted in scores of newspapers and magazines, including the San Francisco Examiner, the Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, Metropolitni Expres, Skeptical Inquirer, San Jose Mercury News, Indianapolis Star, Skepter, Stanford Daily, Oakland Tribune, Yakima Herald, Phoenix New Times, Fortean Times, Saga, Omni, The Prague Post, True, Plus, the South China Daily.

Episode 11 is here!  Without someone to interview, Chuck and I revert to straight up geeks.  We talk about animated movie "Batman: Return of The Caped Crusaders" -  Is it too dark?  Or is Chuck just a good dad?  We also discussed Netflix' Luke Cage.  Is Luke Cage too dark?  Well, I don't see color. Also, I had a head cold, so I sound a bit subdued.  Promise to bounce back BIGLY for the next episode. Topics discussed:  Bobby Flay, Biff Yeager, The Greatest Generation Podcast, OMNI Magazine, Netflix Luke Cage, Planet 9, The Moon, Nemesis, European Space Agency Mars lander, Head Colds, Batman and Robin, Batgirl good, Batgirl bad, Doctor Strange, Harry Mudd, shing!, ummm... other stuff!  Enjoy! www.geeklifecrisis.com @geeklifechuck @geeklifesteve @geeklifecrisis #bringbackharrymudd #iamyourspock geeklifesteve@gmail.com  

In this podcast Ellen Datlow talks about editing misconceptions, reading and themed anthologies. About Ellen Datlow Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor ofEvent Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has … Continue reading

Interview begins at 26:45   Matt Swayne, author of Haunted Rock and Roll and America's Haunted Universities is a journalist who currently works as a research writer at Penn State. It's about time to get a little deeper into ghosts and hauntings.   Matt has worked as a reporter and as a music reviewer for several newspapers and online outlets, such as CentreDaily.com and Music.com. He is a regular contributor to the recently revitalized version of Omni Magazine, called Omni Reboot. He writes the Anti-Matter column, which looks at fringe science and the paranormal, for the online magazine. He has also worked on writing projects with Paranormal State's Eilfie Music. Balancing skepticism with an open mind, Matt uses his experience in journalism and interest in both ghostlore and the paranormal to collect and tell stories about the supernatural.   We chat about synchronicities, and strange experiences in rock and roll and pop culture. And a little bit of quantum physics, OMNI, the 27 club and lot's of other stuff. Maybe after this episode Matt will change his opinion on drum solo's!   http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Rock-Roll-Ghostly-Musical/dp/0738739235    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Haunted-Rock-and-Roll/425419510918319    http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738730806    https://twitter.com/hauntedrockandr    In the intro Darren and Graham chat about some upcoming events (modern knowledge, CSETI, and Randal Carlson) in Calgary and the surrounding area. See links below.   http://www.truthjihad.com/   http://www.modernknowledge.ca/   https://ocseti.wordpress.com/    http://www.ocseti.org/    http://www.eltonjohn.com/percussionist-ray-cooper-celebrates-a-birthday-today/    http://www.unionevents.com/event/849853-kraftwerk-calgary/    http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/   http://www.thegizatemplate.com/    http://www.omnimagonline.com/    https://omnireboot.com/      Grimerica’s Honey DoBeDoBeDo List: !! – Please Help support the show. Grimerica is fully and solely listener supported. We adhere to the Value for Value model.  0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites… just many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!! Check out all the other donation types, and get a Grimerica email addy:   http://www.grimerica.ca/support/   Vote for Napoleon’s Lost Bread Webcomic by Sharing and Hearting his Comics Everyday until the July 7th Listen live and join the chat: www.Mixlr.com/grimerica . Check out the updated schedule @: http://www.grimerica.ca/backstage/ Send us a postcard: http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news Leave a comment, ideas and guest/topic suggestions under any episode or blog http://www.grimerica.ca/ Leave a voicemail http://www.grimerica.ca/ SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com Tweet Darren https://twitter.com/Grimerica Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-grimerica-show/id653314424?mt=2# http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-grimerica-show  Thanks to Wayne Darnell for help with the website. http://www.darnelldigitalink.com/ Check out the Paradigm Symposium 2015. We will be there again!! Year 4 http://paradigmsymposium.com/ http://www.live365.com/stations/roccijstucci MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key Unleash Your Beast - Dome Bongo Solo

Suzanne Ciani Piano Concert Hear the inauguration of our newly gifted grand piano with a concert by Bolinas composer-pianist Suzanne Ciani. Suzanne performed original compositions for piano solo, followed by a conversation with TNS Host Michael Lerner. Ciani’s many recognitions include five Grammy nominations for Best New Age Album, the Indie Award for Best New Age Album and Keyboard Magazine’s “New Age Keyboardist of the Year.” Suzanne Ciani In the early nineties, Suzanne relocated to Bolinas from New York City to concentrate on her artistic career after 20 years as a leader in the field of sound design for film and television, creating award-winning music for a host of high profile Fortune 500 clients. Additionally, she has the recognition of being the first woman hired to score a major Hollywood feature, scoring the Lily Tomlin feature The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Suzanne also brought her special talents to games, scoring original musical FX for Bally’s Xenon Pinball and becoming the first female voice in a game; the story of her creative work became the subject of a television segment of Omni Magazine, hosted by Peter Ustinov. In 1995, she established her own record label, Seventh Wave, after many years as an artist on major labels (Atlantic, Private Music/Windham Hill/BMG/Sony). In addition to her fifteen albums, she has published four books of original piano music through the Hal Leonard Corporation. Her signature composition, “The Velocity of Love,” appears in numerous anthologies of romantic music. Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.

BTE Radio is back this back this week with big news. BTE Radio podcasts can now be heard on KKES FM 102.7 The Hog out of Excelsior Springs, Kansas City and will eventually be heard live as the station over the next few weeks. This week Scott Walton returns in the first half hour to update us on the latest Paranormal/Sci Fi/ Horror Pop Culture news from 8 to 830 then Join Eric, Lon & Sean as we welcome journalist & research writer Matt Swayne to BTE Radio. Matthew L. Swayne (State College, PA) is a journalist who currently works as a research writer at Penn State. Matt has worked as a reporter and as a music reviewer for several newspapers and online outlets, such as CentreDaily.com and Music.com. He is a regular contributor to the recently revitalized version of Omni Magazine, called Omni Reboot. He writes the Anti-Matter column, which looks at fringe science and the paranormal, for the online magazine. He has also worked on writing projects with Paranormal State's Eilfie Music. Balancing skepticism with an open mind, Matt uses his experience in journalism and interest in both ghostlore and the paranormal to collect and tell stories about the supernatural.- About Haunted Rock and Roll - Plug in the guitar, raise the curtain, and step onto the haunted stageFrom rock and roll's pioneers to its contemporary rebels, the greatest names live on after death—in unexpected and frightening ways. Discover thrilling stories of Michael Jackson, Jim Morrison, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Amy Winehouse, and many more rockers who've been seen haunting their favorite bars, clubs, and homes. Haunted Rock and Roll covers rock's entire paranormal legacy, allowing you to explore the famous faces, places, and legends that define one of the biggest cultural movements of all time. Experience true stories of rock star ghosts while enjoying trivia and insights from renowned ghost hunters and researchers. Whether they're making demonic deals for fame or being chased into the afterlife under mysterious circumstances, rockers have followed the same motto: live fast, die young, and leave a restless spirit. Join us this Sunday June 1st at 8:00 pm ET/7:00 pm CT - as we return live and welcome back Scott Walton to discuss Paranormal/Sci-Fi Pop Culture and this weeks guest Matt Swayne and Haunted Rock and Roll.

BTE Radio is back this back this week with big news. BTE Radio podcasts can now be heard on KKES FM 102.7 The Hog out of Excelsior Springs, Kansas City and will eventually be heard live as the station over the next few weeks. This week Scott Walton returns in the first half hour to update us on the latest Paranormal/Sci Fi/ Horror Pop Culture news from 8 to 830 then Join Eric, Lon & Sean as we welcome journalist & research writer Matt Swayne to BTE Radio. Matthew L. Swayne (State College, PA) is a journalist who currently works as a research writer at Penn State. Matt has worked as a reporter and as a music reviewer for several newspapers and online outlets, such as CentreDaily.com and Music.com. He is a regular contributor to the recently revitalized version of Omni Magazine, called Omni Reboot. He writes the Anti-Matter column, which looks at fringe science and the paranormal, for the online magazine. He has also worked on writing projects with Paranormal State's Eilfie Music. Balancing skepticism with an open mind, Matt uses his experience in journalism and interest in both ghostlore and the paranormal to collect and tell stories about the supernatural.- About Haunted Rock and Roll - Plug in the guitar, raise the curtain, and step onto the haunted stageFrom rock and roll’s pioneers to its contemporary rebels, the greatest names live on after death—in unexpected and frightening ways. Discover thrilling stories of Michael Jackson, Jim Morrison, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Amy Winehouse, and many more rockers who’ve been seen haunting their favorite bars, clubs, and homes. Haunted Rock and Roll covers rock’s entire paranormal legacy, allowing you to explore the famous faces, places, and legends that define one of the biggest cultural movements of all time. Experience true stories of rock star ghosts while enjoying trivia and insights from renowned ghost hunters and researchers. Whether they’re making demonic deals for fame or being chased into the afterlife under mysterious circumstances, rockers have followed the same motto: live fast, die young, and leave a restless spirit. Join us this Sunday June 1st at 8:00 pm ET/7:00 pm CT - as we return live and welcome back Scott Walton to discuss Paranormal/Sci-Fi Pop Culture and this weeks guest Matt Swayne and Haunted Rock and Roll.

Our fourth piece of audio fiction for May is “Night of the Cooters” written by Howard Waldrop and read by Kate Baker.   First published in Omni Magazine, April 1987. Subscribe to our podcast.

Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione is the subject of Filthy Gorgeous, a documentary chronicling the rise of the media mogul and his magazine. Jane Homlish, his longtime personal assistant for over 30 years who is featured in the film, joins host Robin Milling to talk about a relationship so unique it will never exist for her again. Jane tells Robin she was convinced that Guccione was the right fit for her inquisitive nature as a young traveler who also had a passion for art. When she answered an ad for a receptionist job she quickly moved up the ranks, knowing Guccione would not only be her boss, but her mentor. They connected creatively in their shared love of art, and spiritually searching for a greater truth as Jane, a Catholic school girl, thought she would be a nun and Bob thought he would be a priest. Jane earned his respect, ultimately overseeing the magazine from cover to cover, curating his massive art collection and his home where 11 pony size Rhodesian Ridgebacks once ruled the roost. They became 'inseparable' working till the wee hours of the morning from his East 67th Street townhouse where Bob lived and worked and Jane had her own private suite to accommodate the hours. She says, “I spent more hours with Bob Guccione than anybody in his entire family including his wife.” Along with the job came managing the photo shoots and sometimes even the Penthouse pets who would do anything they could to get to Bob through Jane. Jane tells Robin she maintained a professional relationship with Guccione, developing a dear friendship, becoming his confidante over the years and the keeper of his secrets; which she cherishes to this day. Bob once told Jane he was convinced they were a priest and nun who knew each other in their past lives. She says, “In fact if that's true I believe I will see Bob again.”

Terry Bisson's classic short story "They're Made Out of Meat" originally appeared in Omni Magazine in 1991, and our audio version was produced for WNYC's Studio 360 in November 2011. We've re-mixed the story especially for this podcast, and it's followed by an interview with Bisson himself. The story was performed by Russ Armstrong & Miriam Tolan, and produced by Jonathan Mitchell.

Terry Bisson's classic short story "They're Made Out of Meat" originally appeared in Omni Magazine in 1991, and our audio version was produced for WNYC's Studio 360 in November 2011. We've re-mixed the story especially for this podcast, and it's followed by an interview with Bisson himself. The story was performed by Russ Armstrong & Miriam Tolan, and produced by Jonathan Mitchell.

Terry Bisson's classic short story "They're Made Out of Meat" originally appeared in Omni Magazine in 1991, and our audio version was produced for WNYC's Studio 360 in November 2011. We've re-mixed the story especially for this podcast, and it's followed by an interview with Bisson himself. The story was performed by Russ Armstrong & Miriam Tolan, and produced by Jonathan Mitchell.

Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest. Topics: (Second of two parts) radical new medical treatments based on stem cell research; examples of what can go wrong when politics and science mix; a controversial revelation as to why the Russian Sputnik satellite beat the US Vanguard rocket into earth orbit; as well as: global climate change, ozone depletion, the International Geophysical Year, and the army verses the navy verses Dr. Wernher von Braun. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the October 27, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 34 minutes] This was recorded in front of a live audience at LibertyCon in Chattanooga on July 10, 2010. (This means it was recorded before the recent layoff of 1200 NASA employees.) Dr. Ben Bova is an award-winning author of more than 115 books of fiction and nonfiction. He has worked with film makers and television producers such as Woody Allen, George Lucas, and Gene Roddenberry. He is President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was editor of Analog Science Fiction magazine for seven years.  After leaving Analog, he went on to edit Omni Magazine. He has been the science analyst on CBS Morning News, and has appeared frequently on Good Morning America and the Today show.  

Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest. Topics: Government bureaucracies; government funded science and engineering projects; NASA; space exploration; and The Sigma Corporation (an organization created to provide a way for Science Fiction authors to give advice to government officials). (This is the first of two parts.) Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the October 20, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 30 minutes] This was recorded in front of a live audience at LibertyCon in Chattanooga on July 10, 2010. (This means it was recorded before the recent layoff of 1200 NASA employees.) Dr. Ben Bova is an award-winning author of more than 115 books of fiction and nonfiction. He has worked with film makers and television producers such as Woody Allen, George Lucas, and Gene Roddenberry. He is President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was editor of Analog Science Fiction magazine for seven years.  After leaving Analog, he went on to edit Omni Magazine. He has been the science analyst on CBS Morning News, and has appeared frequently on Good Morning America and the Today show.

Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest. Topics: his work advising Woody Allen for the movie Sleeper; anecdotes about his friends Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, and Gene Roddenberry; his writing an episode of Land of the Lost; his work with George Lucas; and the time he was on Good Morning America with Jim Henson, Kermit the frog and (first baseman for the Dodgers) Steve Garvey. He also describes Joseph Stalin's insistence on building the world's first big rockets (big enough to carry the early nuclear weapons to the other side of the world); how this prompted John F. Kennedy to proclaim the famous Missile Gap; and lead to General Bernard Schriever's involvement in space, and the growing renown of Wernher von Braun. He also talks about high-powered gas dynamic lasers as defencive weapons against incoming nuclear missiles; how solar power satellites can solve humanity's energy needs; his own expectations of robots in war and in peace; the polarization of American politics; the future of space business, tourism and colonization; and the 1973 TV show The Starlost. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the September 2, 2009 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 48 minutes] This is the second half of the interview with Dr. Bova recorded on July 12, 2009. Ben Bova is an award-winning author of more than 115 books of fiction and nonfiction. He has been involved in science and technology since the birth if the space age, and has worked with film makers and television producers such as Woody Allen, George Lucas, and Gene Roddenberry. He is President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was editor of Analog Science Fiction magazine for seven years.  After leaving Analog, he went on to edit Omni Magazine. He has been the science analyst on CBS Morning News, and has appeared frequently on Good Morning America and The Today Show.  

Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest. Topics: extreme human longevity, which Dr. Bova expects and endorses; why lasers are the ultimate weapon of defense against incoming missiles, and why the U.S. won't be defended by them until after the Obama Administration is out of office. He also describes his participation in the Vanguard Rocket program just before and just after the Russians shocked the United States out of complacency by placing humanity's first satellite into earth orbit; his work popularizing science and science fiction while at Omni and Analog Magazines, as well as in his Grand Tour series of novels about human civilization spreading out from earth and colonizing our solar system; and some of the now-famous authors he discovered in the slush pile while they were yet unpublished, such as Orson Scott Card and Spider Robinson. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the August 26, 2009 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 40 minutes] (This interview was recorded on July 12, 2009 at LiberyCon in Chattanooga Tennessee where Dr. Bova was the convention's Literary Guest of Honor.) Ben Bova is an award-winning author of more than 115 books of fiction and nonfiction. He has been involved in science and technology since the birth if the space age, and has worked with film makers and television producers such as Woody Allen, George Lucas, and Gene Roddenberry. He is President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was editor of Analog Science Fiction magazine for seven years.  After leaving Analog, he went on to edit Omni Magazine. He has been the science analyst on CBS Morning News, and has appeared frequently on Good Morning America and the Today show.