My Media Appearances
NOTE: This list includes radio and TV appearances, Op Ed pieces, Blog and Podcast interviews, and other New Media.
● What We Saw Last Night, discussion of monster movies. April 23, 2024. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2KwOgMNbHSUmWur63uEv11?si=9c50aac930e546b1&nd=1&dlsi=b83f8150797b439c
● After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds, and the Paranormal, Bigfoot, the Origin Story, April 22, 2024 https://podfollow.com/1705694900/episode/9959ca5ddb49804ffae3a6b2ad70d31c3fab5f94/view
● The Bard's Archive. The origins of Cryptozoology and the life of Grover Krantz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klqDyraaFFw
January 19, 2024.
● Professor Buzzkill appearance, Episode 542. The discovery of America, January 9, 2024. https://professorbuzzkill.com/americas-origin-stories-and-myths/
● Memorial Day 23 Op Ed on all those old tanks rusting away on the side of the road. https://kuhistoryblog.wixsite.com/historyblog/post/tanks-for-everything . November 6, 2023.
● Spooky Science Sisters on alchemy, Episode 70, October 27, 2023.
● Profoundly Pointless Podcast, The occult in America. Episode 6, October 20, 2023.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Gb4PDF2r5Y82ERBMYeluX
● Relic: a Phantasmagoria, a retro magic lantern, performance art piece on monsters by Melissa Ferrari. September, 2023.
https://vimeo.com/795119171/c45055ebe3
● The Bard's Archive, Leif Erikson, Norembega, Nellie Horsford, and John Thomas Evans the most tragic of all the tragic characters. August 21, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwVpea3bQx0
• More Jersey Devil discussions. Stephanie A. Faughnan, "Exploring the Lore of the Jersey Devil," Jersey Shore On Line July 17, 2023.
https://www.jerseyshoreonline.com/southern-ocean/exploring-the-lore-of-the-jersey-devil/
• Cold War Conversations Podcast, #282 April 2023.https://coldwarconversations.com/episode282/
• Monster Talk, American Origin Stories, #259 August 22, 2022. https://www.monstertalk.org/259-the-battle-over-americas-origin-story/
● The Skeptic's Book of Lists, podcast interview on the Cold War, February 22, 2022.
● Jersey Devil talk at the New Jersey State Library, October 28, 2021.
● "Why do so many people Believe in miracle Cures?" Daniel Kolitz, Gizmodo, October 25, 2021.
● Columbus Day Op Ed, Nj.com/Star-Ledger, October 11, 2021.
● “Washington, Jefferson and My School IgnoredAnti-Vaxxers and Saved Lives,” Nj.Com/Star-Ledger, August 20, 2021.
● Crypto-Kid Radio Show, July 27, 2021.
● Squaring the Strange Podcast, What is pseudohistory? Episode 153, July, 2021.
● "How to Spot Pseudoscience On-Line," Discover Magazine, comments by me. May 18, 2021.
● Spooky Science Sisters Podcast, May 17, 2021.
● Squaring the Strange Podcast, April 30, 2021.
● Sasquatch, original HULU documentary series. I appear in episode three (3). April 20, 2021.
See the NYPost for a write up about the series that mentions me. April 20, 2021.
● "At America's Door: How Nuns, once suspect, won the heart of non-Catholic America," Global Sister's Report, Written by Elizabeth Evans, with contributions by me, April 12, 2021.
● Airey Bros Podcast, A wide ranging talk on everything, February 23, 2021.
● Quoted in "Planetary Alignments Didn't End the World in 1919," by Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, February 10, 2021.
●"How I learned to survive the end of the world, Covid and the Cold War," Op Ed Newark Star-Ledger, January 24, 2021.
● Parallax Views Podcast, October 30, 2020.
● Mad Scientists Podcast, interview, September 24, 2020.
● "Who Really Discovered America?" Pinelands Conference September 17, 2020.
● "Should we take down our Statues?" Op Ed Newark Star-Ledger, Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 21, 2020.
● "Karen wants to go to the Salon," Op Ed Newark Star-Ledger, May 5, 2020.
● End of Days Radio, interview, March 22, 2020.
● "What do Historians do anyway?" Kean University Department of History Blog, March 5, 2020.
● Accordion Noir interview on music history, accordions, and the late Danny Federici and Bruce Springsteen. January 22, 2020.
● Jersey Devil interview, Cryptid Report with Jim Harold, December 22, 2019.
● Outlaw Historian Podcast, Halloween discussion of the Jersey Devil, October 31, 2019.
● Interview on the Jersey Devil on Cryptids Decrypted podcast. October 30, 2019.
● "Everything Means Something in Viking," Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, 43:6 Nov/Dec 2019, 44-47.
● "The Jersey Devil in the Twenty-First Century," Johns Hopkins University Press Blog, August 1, 2019.
● "The Great Handshake in Space," Star-Ledger, July 14, 2019.
● Interview on @WFMU radio, April 10, 2019.
● "The New Odyssey," Star-Ledger, March 24, 2019.
● "Why I Became a Globalist," Star-Ledger, February 24, 2019.
● I appear in this assessment, by Sharon Hill, of the currently available instructional courses on pseudoscience.
"Paranormal education classes showing up at major universities," December 14, 2018.
● Drive By History, PBS NJTV with Frank J. Esposito on the Jersey Devil. November, 2018.
● NBC Mach, "Alchemy and Science: Fantastic Beasts," Harry Potter movie tie in, November 26, 2018.
● X Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnel interview, Canada. Monsters & cryptozoology. November 22, 2018.
● Rude Awakenings Radio Show, WOCM-FM, Ocean 98.1, interview about the Mythical Beasts series, Oct 9, 2018.
● Mythical Beasts, television series, Science Channel, October, 2018.
● 'Mythical Beasts' panel, Comic Con NYC, Jacob Javits Center, October 4, 2018.
● "The Monsters We Create Ourselves (Fear of the Other)," Star-Ledger, August 18, 2018.
● Interview on Coast to Coast AM radio with Ian Punnett, June 30, 2018.
● Interview on Ben Franklin's World, episode 192, June 26, 2018.
● Interview (including Frank Esposito) on Thinking Aloud with Marcus Smith, BYURadio, The Jersey Devil, June 21, 2018.
● Interview on AIPT! on the Jersey Devil, May 28, 2018.
● Interview on John Fea's Way of Improvement Leads Home American history blog. "Author's Corner," April 2, 2018.
● "We treat them miserably but immigrants keep making the country great," Star-Ledger, February 11, 2018.
● "Using History Class Methods in Non-History Classes," Kean University, Professional Development, January 8, 2018.
● "Offering 'thoughts and prayers' is not real empathy," Star-Ledger, October 22, 2017.
● My quotes in, "How Jersey Tamed its most Terrifying Legend," Thrillist, October 18, 2017.
● A profile of my Jersey Devil work. "Pinelands People," nj.com Oct 4, 2017.
● "A Total Eclipse Off the Chart," Bergen Record, August 18, 2017.
● "The Terrorism We Don't Want to Talk About," Star-Ledger, June 4, 2017.
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/06/the_terrorism_we_dont_want_to_talk_about_opinion.html
● "Accordions, America, and Danny Federici," Bergen Record, April 12, 2017.
● "Fake History to go with the Fake News," NJ.com / Star-Ledger, March 17, 2017.
Print version, March 19, 2017.
● History in an age of lies, Star-Ledger, January 26, 2017.
● "Sorry Santa," Pseudoscience and the new Administration, Star-Ledger, December 24, 2016.
● "Recounting my Doctoral Defense," PhD Talk, blog, December 24, 2016.
● "Christmas with Krampus," December 12, 2016.
● Sharon Hill's Review of Fringe New Jersey conference. Doubtful blog, November 7, 2016.
● "Why the Strongman always Loses," Star-Ledger, October 13, 2016.
● Podcast Monster Talk, discussing the life of early 20th century occultist Montague Summers, August 17, 2016.
● Op Ed on Denialism today, Star-Ledger, August 21, 2016. Also in The Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/22/1562500/-Dealing-with-Denial
● Op Ed the Iron Curtain and the Mexico wall, Star-Ledger, April 18, 2016.
● Op Ed "The Healing Power of a Dark Past," Star-Ledger, January 24, 2016.
● Article on the Jersey Devil from Germany, , January 13, 2016.TravelBook
● Op Ed "Refugees and history Star-LedgerJanuary 4, 2016.
● Jersey Devil related articles with my comments:
http://www.vice.com/read/why-the-urban-legend-of-the-jersey-devil-wont-die-666
● Radio Interview, Jersey Devil,October 31, 2015. 'Talk With a Purpose' with John DemasiAM1450 Atlantic City
● Interview with 'Five For Friday,' Philly Voice, October 30, 2015.
● "Halloween, History, and the Jersey DevilI Doubt It blog, October 23, 2016.
● My comments on the Jersey Devil footageThe Guardian in , October 17, 2015.
● Television - History Channel Appeared as on-camera expert in the series "True Monsters," October, 2015.
● Star-Ledger "Why is Columbus Credited with Discovering America?"Op Ed in the , " October 13, 2015.
● Fortean Times #331 Forum op ed, "The State of Cryptozoology Today," October, 2015.
● Op Ed in the on "Hollywood's Next War," August 23, 2015. Star-Ledger.
● Op Ed in the Star-Ledger on Climate Change, May 10, 2015.
● Op Ed in the Star-Ledger on vaccinations and public health, February 9, 2015.
● My comments in "In the Shadow of Sasquatch" in Pique Magazine, December 7, 2014.
● My talk on 'The Impact of Evolutionary Biology on Modern Society,' given to the Red Bank (NJ) Humanists, September 14, 2014. VIDEO.
● My reconstruction (drawing) of the extinct non-hopping Kangaroo, Sthenarus, for Dr. Christine Janis of Brown University in Australian Geographic, October 17, 2014.
● Op Ed in the Star-Ledger on Muslims, Catholics, and scapegoats, July 20, 2014 and again in Religious News Service, in the Washington Post, and The Muslim Times
● My comments in Discovery News on the Sykes, Bigfoot, DNA study, July 2, 2014, and again in the Guardian.
● Video lecture on the Jersey Devil given before the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) at the Historic Smithville Inn, June 11, 2014.
● "Richard Owen: The Accidental Grandfather of Cryptozoolgy," Center for Fortean Zoology, USA blog, March 26, 2014.
● Qui veut la peau de l’abominable homme des bois? by Emmanuel Deslouis Science & Vie Junior (Paris), 295 - Avril, 2014: 81-83. With my comments.
● "Common Ground from N.J. to China," Star-Ledger, March 2, 2014.
● My comments in "Der Yeti ist ein Bar," Frankfurter Allgemeine, Wissen (Germany) February 2, 2014.
● "On the Trail of Ignored Animals," by Suzannah Showler, Maisonneuve Magazine (Canada), Winter, 2013. My quotes.
● Op Ed The Meaning of Christmas, Star-Ledger, December 15, 2013.
● Was the Abominable Snowman a Bear? (with my comments) National Geographic, October 21, 2013.
● Op Ed History in Our Daily Lives, Star-Ledger, October 18, 2013.
● Podcast on the Jersey Devil, MonsterTalk, September, 2013.
● Op Ed The Forgotten Political Origins of the Jersey Devil, Star-Ledger, August 18, 2013.
● Op Ed Neil Armstrong and character, Star-Ledger, July 7, 2013.
● My thought on the 17 year Cicada and twitter in the Washington Post, June 5, 2013.
● My Jersey Devil talk, Kearny Public Library, Kearny Observer, May 1, 2013.
● Darwin Day, TH Huxley Op Ed, Star-Ledger, February 23, 2013.
● "Of Angels and Blueberry Bagels: DNA, Bigfoot and the Classroom," JREF (James Randi Education Foundation) posted January 21, 2013.
● Op Ed "In Praise of Those Life-Saving Libraries," Star-Ledger, January 15, 2013.
● More on Doomsday, KeanXcxhange, Descember 21, 2012.
● Op Ed on the Mayans and 2012 prophesy, Star-Ledger, December 2, 2012.
● Essay on teaching pseudoscience in the classroom, JREF (James Randi Education Foundation) posted September 19, 2012.
● Op Ed on Bigfoot and Pseudoscience on TV, Newark Star-Ledger July 22, 2012.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2012/07/wheres_the_science_in_the_sear.html
● OP Ed piece on Intelligent Design and politics, Newark Star-Ledger April 19, 2012, page 17.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2012/04/supporting_intelligent_design.html
• Times of India "Is it time to bury the Yeti myth?" February 19, 2012, my opinions on the continued hunt for such elusive creatures.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Is-it-time-to-bury-the-yeti-myth/articleshow/11945415.cms
• Interview with EWP Podcast (Eastern Washington Paranormal) hosts Nick Page and Gregg Wright http://www.ewppodcast.com/
• Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2011 (Front page article) "Bigfoot Hunters Detect Signs of the Hairy Beast in Siberia," reference to me and the Russian Yeti hunt.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203752604576640963633300254.html
• The Guardian, Op Ed piece on Russian Yeti hunting, October 12, 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/12/yeti-hunters-scientific-russian-cryptozoologists
• Interview on Radio Ireland, NewsTalk Radio and the Sean Moncrieff Show
August 18, 2011 (10 minutes)
(Guest host Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin fills in for Moncrieff)
• Eccentricity and Natural History Oxford University Museum for the History of Science Lecture Series/Pod Cast, July 19, 2011
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/search?terms=brian+regal
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/crackpots-and-eggheads/
Also on iTunes Store
• Skeptic Magazine/Monster Talk pod cast interview on Searching for Sasquatch,
June 10, 2011 with hosts Blake Smith, Ben Radford, and Dr. Karen Stollznow.
http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/monstertalk/11/06/08/
• CNN Why do we need to believe in Bigfoot?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/21/bigfoot.psychology.monsters/?hpt=Sbin
• Skeptic Magazine/Monster Talk pod cast Halloween interview on Darwin and Monsters with hosts Blake Smith, Ben Radford, and Dr. Karen Stollznow.
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-10-28
• WIRED.IT
Wired magazine in Italian
http://www.wired.it/news/archivio/2009-06/18/darwin.aspx
• Science
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/06/darwin-as-slayer-of-werewolves.html
• USAToday
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2009/06/68162503/1
• Naked Science Radio interview.
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/967/
• Discovery Channel (on-line) article on the Georgia Bigfoot, with my comments. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/15/bigfoot-sasquatch-hoax.html
• Interviewed by host Janeane Garofalo, The Majority Report, Air America Radio, January 14, 2005.
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My introduction to The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (2005) plagiarized by anti-evolutionist fundamentalists
Salon.Com
Creationism Vs. Atheism: It's On! by Laura Miller
http://archive.salon.com/books/ray_comfort/index.html
My reaction in the Report of the National Center for Science Education
http://ncse.com/rncse/30/1-2/stealing-down-road-to-perdition
- Sep 14, 2012 1:36:5 PM