Hey, chat room kids...how many of you are, in fact, kids? Just curious since our friend in marketing here seems to think he's giving equal time to crap for the benefit of the children.
Think of the children!
Getting back to this money thing. It's not wrong to want to make money off your hard work, but it's important to be clear with yourself and your audience what your motive is. I think if your primary motive is to make money then you really don't give a shit about getting to any "truth" or facts. You might as well interview Burisch and Biedny because they're the same person to you.
But if money is a secondary issue then you'd never interview Burisch except to publicly flog him. The problem, as I see it, is that those good ol' days of just trying to make a buck off paranormal entertainment are coming to an end. Reason being, the pool has been peed in by so many frauds and so many makers of promises that never fulfill, you'd be hard-pressed to find an audience that isn't jaded. They are jaded because of just that approach--throw any Paola on there and see if she sticks.
It's not entertaining anymore and it certainly has nothing to do with answers, such as they are. I think the hardcore listeners of 2008 are done with imagination time. They don't want bedtime stories, they want something real. That's a tough call, what's real and what's not, but it means eliminating that which is proven false.
Is that so much to ask of your show--to not promote false information to make a buck while pretending to give a shit about the topic?
And now several bloggers at UFO Magazine will write "Well who is to decide what's been proven false? Who are you to decide? Who are you?"
Because, right...there's no standard of evidence at all. Not my eyes. Not the string holding up the tampon UFO hanging in front of the lens. Not the understanding of the sophomoric nature of the soul claims made by a man who owns machine guns.
I'm pissing myself off just thinking about this.
Bottom line: If you do it for the money, you end up paying frauds and morons (Paola isn't a fraud) on purpose and you keep this a weak religion. That's actually good for me because I'm going to be speaking in November at a conference and my only qualification is that X amount of people don't think I'm lying about my experiences. So you know what? I take it all back. Keep up the good work. I hope to be a guest on your show real soon.
