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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to our pre New Year's Eve program.

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Speaker 2: George Norrie with you our special guest. Doctor Cal Cooper

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Speaker 2: is a professor of parapsychology and Public Understanding of human

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Speaker 2: Science based at the University of Northampton and the United Kingdom.

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Speaker 2: He's also a co director of the Parapsychology Education at

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Speaker 2: the California Institute for Human Science, and he has authored

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Speaker 2: a number of books, with the most popular being Telephone

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Speaker 2: Calls from the Dead, Conversations with Ghosts, and Paracoustics Sound

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Speaker 2: in the Paranormal. Cal Cooper was last on our program

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Speaker 2: nine years ago.

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Speaker 3: Cal, it's been a long time. Welcome back.

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Speaker 4: How you doing. It's been a long time.

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Speaker 5: How are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Been nine years? My gush. What have you been up to?

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Speaker 4: Various things, all kinds of things have happen, and a

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Speaker 4: lot of PhD candidates.

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Speaker 5: To supervise in parapsychology, so we've had.

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Speaker 4: A number of different weird and wonderful projects to look

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Speaker 4: into since all that time. So there's a lot to

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Speaker 4: discuss in the next couple of hours.

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Speaker 2: How did you as a parapsychologist get involved in the paranormal.

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Speaker 4: Well mind the long story, Really, I have a background

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Speaker 4: in performing arts, so I was interested in stage and performance.

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Speaker 4: I always really wanted to do that. When I was

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Speaker 4: at school, I did a lot of pantomimes and small plays,

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Speaker 4: kind of side things to get into to help my

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Speaker 4: performing arts career. But every week we used to go

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Speaker 4: to the local library as a school. They would walkers

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Speaker 4: down the road to the local library and heritage shop,

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Speaker 4: and in a small corner of the library there was

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Speaker 4: about four or five books, some of them on local

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Speaker 4: hauntings written by a lady called Jane Peeter. She was

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Speaker 4: a local journalist and writer and all she'd done.

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Speaker 5: Was go around and interview people locally.

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Speaker 4: About their experiences. And those were the best kinds of

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Speaker 4: ghost stories that really captured my imagination because I thought

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Speaker 4: the people seemed very honest and sincere about the experiences

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Speaker 4: that they're having.

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Speaker 5: So what's going on there?

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Speaker 4: That there must be some sort of area of study

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Speaker 4: for this, And I wasn't seeing that in my schooling.

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Speaker 4: Aren't going to get that in chemistry, physics or biology.

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Speaker 4: And we weren't taught psychology at that level, and some

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Speaker 4: of the other books that I was looking at were

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Speaker 4: involving fourteen phenomena. So there were the classic pictures as

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Speaker 4: we know it was footage of the alleged Bigfoot.

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Speaker 5: There were pictures of UFOs.

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Speaker 4: There were stories of Jeff the talking mongoose in the

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Speaker 4: investigations of the Ghost under Harry Price, who also investigated

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Speaker 4: Baally Rectoring. So this all really really captured my imagination,

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Speaker 4: and I went to these places, these local haunts, quite alarmed.

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Speaker 4: In fact, only yesterday I was at one of them

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Speaker 4: that I've been going to ever since I was very young,

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Speaker 4: Newstead Abbey, and that's the former home of the poet

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Speaker 4: those places. My grandmother told me about the White Lady

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Speaker 4: and Boast and the dog and the goblin prior and

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Speaker 4: all these experiences people had had. So it was by

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Speaker 4: that I realized at university level, which is where I

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Speaker 4: was heading. There were people studying parapsychology, so looking into

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Speaker 4: the science of the unusual experiences and or abilities, which,

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Speaker 4: I had to pick very carefully which university I wanted

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Speaker 4: deal with this college level and the psychology teachers they said, oh,

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Speaker 4: just to let you know, there is no such thing

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Speaker 4: as a parapsychologist. And this was a head of psychology,

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Speaker 4: some very well known ones as well, Professor Chris Rowe,

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Speaker 4: Dr Richard Broughton, who was one of the research directors

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Speaker 4: and so that's where I ended up, and throughout all

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Speaker 4: and staying that that's my career.

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Speaker 2: It's a remarkable career, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: It is.

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Speaker 4: I'm certainly in a very unique position because there's probably

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Speaker 4: about three hundred parapsychologists worldwide, and there's only a select

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Speaker 4: few of them that have it as a full time career.

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Speaker 4: So I'm in that privileged position where my job in

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Speaker 4: day out is effectively a full time ghostbuster, the scientific type.

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Speaker 2: One of your favorite books is called Telephone Calls from

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Speaker 2: the Dead.

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Speaker 3: How did you key in on that story?

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Speaker 5: Well, that was still during my undergraduate training. So as

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Speaker 4: Psychology degree, I was reading a number of books by d.

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Speaker 5: Scott Rogo and Raymond Baylist.

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Speaker 4: They were both from California, and scott Rogo, like me,

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Speaker 4: had had a very early fascination with paranormal and also

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Speaker 4: So where are people hearing this musical this singing from me?

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Speaker 4: He wrote that when he was an undergraduate. So all

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Speaker 4: the books I was reading, I wrote going bayless, and

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Speaker 4: that I got in my room and thinking, oh, I'll

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Speaker 4: read that later. And I was reading far more parapsychology

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Speaker 4: one second hand book that was called Phone Calls from

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Speaker 4: the Dead, a two year investigation into an incredible phenomenon.

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Speaker 4: Just looked at it briefly and then stuck it on

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Speaker 4: It didn't capture my attention straight away. I just knew

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Speaker 4: And then it was a news report on MSA News

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Speaker 4: That around I guess ten o'clock at night, the trainer crashed.

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Speaker 4: They were receiving multiple calls from his mobile phone to

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Speaker 4: So the family realized what had happened, and so every

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Speaker 4: And then I thought, but there wasn't really a conversation.

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Speaker 4: in this book by Rogo and Baylists? So I picked

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Speaker 4: So that's how I discovered the book, and I started

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Speaker 4: They went through Scott Rogo's archive for me and found

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Speaker 2: I think nowadays cal the so many phones have caller ideability.

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Speaker 2: Do these calls come in with caller ID? And if

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Speaker 4: where is it coming from?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 5: That's the problem.

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Speaker 3: Are we still getting the calls nowadays? Though?

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Speaker 5: Apparently so.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we've got a really big show over here.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how many of you are starting to

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Speaker 4: hear a bit over there. But we've had various paranormal

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Speaker 4: shows over time, and I've been involved in various pilots

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Speaker 4: on Cap a guy called Danny Robbins, and he did

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Speaker 4: a podcast over ten years ago called Haunted, and that's

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Speaker 4: And it wasn't just this one off. Wherever he went

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Speaker 1: He was a.

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Speaker 4: Secret agent, and two got this sophisticated telephone system at

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Speaker 4: I don't know what it particularly tells us, but certainly

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Speaker 4: he discussed his second prototype of this telephone's contact the dead,

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Speaker 4: Believed that his son still had some sort of psychic

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Speaker 4: Son, I need an element of view inside this device.

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Speaker 4: So got him to blow up this balloon and attached

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Speaker 5: And so this was taken.

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Speaker 4: Around to very spiritualist churches and apparently with some success.

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Speaker 4: But ghost under Harry Price had to go up building

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Speaker 4: this machine and got no success. American psychical researcher Herold Carrington,

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Speaker 4: he built this device and got no success. So what

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Speaker 4: But most famous of all would be Thomas Edison. So

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Speaker 4: in nineteen twenty he went to Scientific American and gave

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Speaker 4: His parents were spiritualists. He got lab assistants that were

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Speaker 4: Polish American psychics some of them, and they were holding

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Speaker 4: seances sometimes at the end of the day. And what

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Speaker 4: to contact the dead. Whether he was jumping on the

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Speaker 4: bandwagon of what people were already saying they'd done and

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Speaker 4: were publishing that, I don't know. But he describes in

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Speaker 4: detail saying, I want this device to contain components that

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Speaker 4: are so delicate that if the dead do indeed leave

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Speaker 4: this earth and they want to contact the living, it

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Speaker 4: will at least give them a chance to get in touch.

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Speaker 4: And so it comes up with this idea, He discusses it,

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Speaker 4: it discusses.

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Speaker 5: The components, and yet there is nothing.

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Speaker 4: Nothing is produced, there's no blueprints, there's no final products.

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Speaker 5: Imagine if you could commercialize something like that.

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Speaker 4: If it actually worked, you could just go down to

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Speaker 4: use to contact your deceased relatives. But by nineteen thirty one,

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Speaker 4: Thomas Edison had passed away. There's no such device discovered,

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Speaker 4: and the Thomas Edison Museum.

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Speaker 5: I think it's in Texas.

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Speaker 4: They claim that one of their highest requests is for

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Speaker 4: people to see pictures of this device, or to see

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Speaker 4: the blueprints as well, but they have no such things,

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Speaker 4: and over time people claim that they've discovered such things,

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Speaker 4: but it's certainly not reached the Thomas Edison Museum. So

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Speaker 4: people have thought that if the deads are surviving in

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Speaker 4: some way, you need electrical components, something with delicate instrumentations,

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Speaker 4: and it will give them a chance for getting touched.

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Speaker 4: It's an idea. I don't know how I feel about

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Speaker 4: that as a parapsychologist and a skepe, but there's certainly

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Speaker 4: a lot of really really good evidence for the idea

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Speaker 4: of something mind personality memory surviving.

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Speaker 5: As I was involved in.

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Speaker 4: The Robert Bigelow Essay Awards that took place in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 4: and many people, many parapsychologists all over the world, came

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Speaker 2: That's one that Jeffrey Misch loved one, I think, right, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: he did.

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Speaker 4: Jeff a good friend. I was texting him last night

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Speaker 4: and we've worked together on his recent parapsychology programs. But

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Speaker 4: he brought together years and years and years worth of

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Speaker 4: his new Thinking Allowed program and where people have discussed

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Speaker 4: survival of death. Yeah, Jeff won the half million dollar prize.

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Speaker 4: We got an honorable mention, so we were very happy

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Speaker 4: with that. Vegas and the people again with it people

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Speaker 4: within those essays they've mentioned telephone phenomena. Jeff they did

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine the person who receives the phone call, caw,

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Speaker 2: the look on their face when they take that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it would be a variety of different things.

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Speaker 4: I think some people would think it's a prank. I

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Speaker 4: think some people would be absolutely shocked and dumbfounded and not.

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Speaker 5: Know what to say. I think that some other people.

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Speaker 4: If you've just recently lost that person, they've been in

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Speaker 4: such a state of shock that they would forget that

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Speaker 4: the person has died. And if they're saying that it

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Speaker 4: was like any other call, then that's what they're treating

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Speaker 4: it like. They're treating it like you and I are

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Speaker 4: talking right now. It's not till after the call that things,

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Speaker 4: the reality starts to catch up with them. That hang

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Speaker 5: Possibly have happened.

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