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George Noory on SciFi Channel Tonight
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Open_Mind2007
Guest
The reason I believe that other hosts aren't as critical to thier guests is they know that people are intelligent enough to make up thier own minds. People know whats BS and whats not. They also do it because it does not alienate thier guests. Sooner or later if you start to riducule guests , word will get around that this show is not here to let your story be heard but to make fools of you. If that happens I think that the paracast will not be around long because people will refuse to do this show and without guests there will be no show. Sure they may still be a few left but who wants to hear the same old stories again and again.
CapnG said:
Well said. To be fair,I've heard Gene and Dave stop a guest when they make a truly outlandish claim and ask for some detail or explaination. When the biggest competition takes a 'hand off' approach to interviewing any amount of questioning seems like hard scrutiny. I thought the first inteview Gene and Dave did with MH was pretty brutal . . . after MH had hung up. However, to their credit they had a second show with him and did not shrink away from the criticism they voiced.
The second MH show definitely had some hard questions in it.
-DBTrek
David Biedny
Paranormal Adept
The reason I believe that other hosts aren't as critical to thier guests is they know that people are intelligent enough to make up thier own minds. People know whats BS and whats not.
Looking at the world today, it's pretty clear that most people seem to have a very hard time distinguishing between "reality" and BS. Anyone living in the US at the moment is all too painfully aware of this fact, and it's especially true in the realm of the paranormal. I've heard the horrorshow call-ins on C2C, I'm guessing that there are a bunch of people out there lacking thumbs and measurable IQs.
As far as the question I posed to Sparks about the bathroom issue, think about the fact that this was a question that he's never been asked, and one that was designed to test his reaction, both in terms of tone and content. He claims to be abducted for up to 9 hours at a time, and has never mentioned how he empties his bowels. If you don't understand why I'm asking this question, then you will have to try and look beyond the surface details, and explore the underlying mechanisms and processes of information extraction. I'll mention that my primary reason for doing The Paracast with Gene is to get answers to my own questions, and if my interview methods are sometimes not obvious, well, that's by design, not accident. For the most part, this show is a selfish exercise for me, and I'm simply not concerned whether folks always understand what I'm doing or how I'm interacting with Gene or how I'm treating a guest. There are some folks who I enjoy more than others, and for those who have mentioned my attitude towards Jeff Ritzmann, I personally find him to be one of the more fascinating, direct and honest people I've ever met, and I think that his stories reflect actual experiences of his - I personally find him to be completely credible. Like Jeff, I can offer no solid understanding for what he's been through. I do not understand my own paranormal experiences, and I suppose it's accurate to say that this show is my therapy. If you like it, great, welcome along for the ride. If you have problems with it, there are lots of other things you can do with that time that you save by not listening to the show.
OM2007, you seem to feel that the Sparks story is full of "great wonders of the universe", and have a problem understanding my approach and attitude. Thanks for sharing your thoughts regarding the Sparks case, I now have a much better appreciation of your comments on these forums and their contextual meaning.
dB
Looking at the world today, it's pretty clear that most people seem to have a very hard time distinguishing between "reality" and BS. Anyone living in the US at the moment is all too painfully aware of this fact, and it's especially true in the realm of the paranormal. I've heard the horrorshow call-ins on C2C, I'm guessing that there are a bunch of people out there lacking thumbs and measurable IQs.
As far as the question I posed to Sparks about the bathroom issue, think about the fact that this was a question that he's never been asked, and one that was designed to test his reaction, both in terms of tone and content. He claims to be abducted for up to 9 hours at a time, and has never mentioned how he empties his bowels. If you don't understand why I'm asking this question, then you will have to try and look beyond the surface details, and explore the underlying mechanisms and processes of information extraction. I'll mention that my primary reason for doing The Paracast with Gene is to get answers to my own questions, and if my interview methods are sometimes not obvious, well, that's by design, not accident. For the most part, this show is a selfish exercise for me, and I'm simply not concerned whether folks always understand what I'm doing or how I'm interacting with Gene or how I'm treating a guest. There are some folks who I enjoy more than others, and for those who have mentioned my attitude towards Jeff Ritzmann, I personally find him to be one of the more fascinating, direct and honest people I've ever met, and I think that his stories reflect actual experiences of his - I personally find him to be completely credible. Like Jeff, I can offer no solid understanding for what he's been through. I do not understand my own paranormal experiences, and I suppose it's accurate to say that this show is my therapy. If you like it, great, welcome along for the ride. If you have problems with it, there are lots of other things you can do with that time that you save by not listening to the show.
OM2007, you seem to feel that the Sparks story is full of "great wonders of the universe", and have a problem understanding my approach and attitude. Thanks for sharing your thoughts regarding the Sparks case, I now have a much better appreciation of your comments on these forums and their contextual meaning.
dB
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Open_Mind2007
Guest
I think his story is complete BS but was just making a point, that if his story was true then why worry about bathroom issues when you have all this fantastic you have proven me wrong..lol...oh welll.
butters said:
But both are too quick to at least pretend to buy some pretty outrageous claims in the spirit of good clean entertainment.
That's our biggest complaint. It's not their success by any means. It's really hard to succeed in this business, and I almost always have good wishes for the precious few who manage to earn a good living from it.
Then again, Noory is still a bobblehead
ondafritz
Skilled Investigator
I have listened to more paranormal interviews and seen more paranormal documentaries than I care to remember. Most of them are crap. A few are interesting. And maybe even precious fewer have something that makes me take notice.
Quite frankly I use them to get ideas on writing music. And even though most of them are so badly done (or researched or whatever you chose to enter here) I still find these show more entertaining than the general pablum you get from television or broadcast radio now a days.
Let me give the Paracast its props though.... It is the best interview show going PERIOD (followed now by a period '.'). You want hard questioning? Keep in mind that a question can be a "hard" question by not WHAT is asked but HOW it is asked. I can hear the "what the hell is this guy talking about?" sighs and the impatient tapping of the fingers on the desk (need to work on that one boys) and don't think the victim of the week can't hear that either. That is refreshing as I have also been a listener to another Internet paranormal interview show that originates from a state near Texas that I have all but given up on because.... well, just because.
The point I am trying to make is this: The field I am mainly interested in is the UFO field, but the ghost guys Gene and David have had on recently have been very interesting, and the UFO field is, as I mentioned in another thread, in complete disarray. It is in desperate need of an enema. The crap has got to go or else nobody outside the goof balls like us is ever going to take it seriously. It is making me sick and I am thrilled to finally hear guys like Gene and David start to tell these people..... BEND OVER!
Quite frankly I use them to get ideas on writing music. And even though most of them are so badly done (or researched or whatever you chose to enter here) I still find these show more entertaining than the general pablum you get from television or broadcast radio now a days.
Let me give the Paracast its props though.... It is the best interview show going PERIOD (followed now by a period '.'). You want hard questioning? Keep in mind that a question can be a "hard" question by not WHAT is asked but HOW it is asked. I can hear the "what the hell is this guy talking about?" sighs and the impatient tapping of the fingers on the desk (need to work on that one boys) and don't think the victim of the week can't hear that either. That is refreshing as I have also been a listener to another Internet paranormal interview show that originates from a state near Texas that I have all but given up on because.... well, just because.
The point I am trying to make is this: The field I am mainly interested in is the UFO field, but the ghost guys Gene and David have had on recently have been very interesting, and the UFO field is, as I mentioned in another thread, in complete disarray. It is in desperate need of an enema. The crap has got to go or else nobody outside the goof balls like us is ever going to take it seriously. It is making me sick and I am thrilled to finally hear guys like Gene and David start to tell these people..... BEND OVER!
Digital Trickster
Paranormal Maven
I think George Knapp should take over C2C !