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Bruce: Jason, I appreciate you taking the speaking of were trademarks on your show.
time to speak with me. Please tell me what You were serious but you always had fun
your current projects are. with it.
Jason: Well, thank you. I’m doing a Jason: I’d been offered shows years before
national syndicated radio show through and I’d turned them down. I’d been
Entercom and Westwood One called working on shows, behind the scenes, like
Beyond Reality Radio. It airs five nights a MTV Fear and The Scariest Place on Earth. It
week on both AM and FM stations. People was fun because I didn’t have to be in front
can check that out at of the camera.
http://beyondrealityradio.com.
I did a New York Times article, with a great
We have fun and talk about different topics author John Leland, who came here and
such as witchcraft, haunting, possession, went out on investigations with us. That
space exploration—anything that falls out was back in 2002 and opened up the craze
of the norm we talk about. for the paranormal again. Offers of shows
began back then because people liked the
Bruce: Do you have guests?
way we did it. We were going in, looking
for the real explanation of what was
happening. We were looking for a scientific
explanation.
We turned down five different show offers
before we were approached by Craig
Piligian and Pilgrim Films. The only reason
we agreed to do the show was that he
didn’t want to change anything. He was the
Jason: Absolutely. Every night we’re live we most down-to-earth guy you could meet.
have one or two guests and cover different He told us that he found what we did
topics. We’ve had FBI and law enforcement, interesting and simply wanted to send
we’ve had clergy, and we actually had cameras to film us as we went on these
people from the church of Satan on. It’s a investigations.
respectful show that’s done professionally
He said, “If you guys don’t do it, someone
and we have fun with it. We keep in
else is going to. How will they represent the
professional but we’re also able to have fun
field?”
and enjoy ourselves.
I think you can see that from the last twelve
Bruce: You pioneered the genre on
years from other shows that have come out.
television and some of what you’re
Most of them have come and gone. We
