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[This show first aired 12/02/2007.]\n\nPJ Manney's first appearance on Fastforward Radio / The World Transformed!\n\nShow highlights:\nOur\xa0Tales of the Paranormal\xa0feature 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\xa0empathetic?What does it mean to be a geek or a nerd? Is\xa0autism\xa0part 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\xa0smart 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\xa0the\xa0favorite episode of Lucy Lawless.