[This show first aired 12/02/2007.]

PJ Manney's first appearance on Fastforward Radio / The World Transformed!

Show highlights:

Our Tales of the Paranormal feature is back. We learned that the "Association for the Study of Unexplained Phenomenon" is claiming to have a working "telephone to the dead."Does technology - the Internet, video games, etc. - does all that make us more or less empathetic?What does it mean to be a geek or a nerd? Is autism part of the picture?We listened to an excerpt from the pilot episode of CBS's new sitcom "The Big Bang Theory." Good news - the geeks are the heroes in that show.If you have a smart kid, do you praise the child for being smart or try to play it down?Lastly, we got a great story about PJ's Xena episode, "Is There a Doctor in the House?" PJ was too modest to mention it, but this episode is both a fan favorite and the favorite episode of Lucy Lawless.