- During his radio career, Paladin has been able to either meet or actually spend time with several of his childhood musical heroes either at concerts or at radio station events - including STYX, Kansas, Queensryche, King's X, and now-deceased blind blues-rock prodigy Jeff Healey.
- Paladin is adopted. There is one month between birth and adoption that no records can account for his whereabouts.
- Paladin spent his first and second birthday with his adoptive family in Accra, Ghana, Africa, where he is told he learned how to walk. Over his lifetime Paladin has lived in Knoxville, Tennessee; Accra, Ghana; Illinois; Madison, Wisconsin; Jackson and Parma, Michigan; and settled in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, metroplex after 1980. He moved to Minnesota in 2011.
- A pilot-friend of his was able to take Paladin up in a 1927 Dehavilland tiger moth bi-plane while doing aerobatics - a plane that at one point was actually considered for a Meatloaf rock video.
- In Paladin's senior year in high school, he wrote a symphonic composition called "Otto Mann" which represented a battle between machines as depicted by the percussion instruments and humanity as depicted by the wind instruments. It was considered a 'tone poem' and was never performed publicly, but there exists one recording of the piece as recorded in a rehearsal by his high school symphonic band.
- Paladin's experienced a back injury in 1996 in a rather unusual elevator accident wherein the elevator dropped three floors. He was no longer able to perform the physically demanding role of the "Gadarene Demoniac."
- During his tenure with "The Promise", he performed several roles in the show. He was most known as the Gadarene Demoniac, but he also performed the roles of the thief who did not enter paradise while hanging on the cross adjacent to Jesus, the accuser of Peter in the "denial" scene, and after a long absence from the show due to health reasons, returned in the role of "Temple Guard" during the 2004 season, which he was not able to complete. Paladin has joked about being all the bad guys from The Bible.
- As an exemplary student Paladin was involved in the Boy Scouts of America as a young person. Further, he became an "Eagle Scout" with a "Bronze Palm" for going above and beyond the minimum requirements to be an Eagle Scout--the highest rank in Scouting. He accomplished this by the age of 14.
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