But there are exceptions, CyBerTrek, and if you can't take your discourse above the childish level, you'll be out of here. :exclamation:
Here, here.
I really don't understand this. This whole thread, the particular topic--I mean, either deal with it or go away.
That's all there is. We are a community here, I would call it an online family, I am so close to many of the users here. Yes, there are a lot of behind-the-scenes communiques going on in private messages.
I would suggest if anyone has a problem with the hosts (mods, creators, implementers--whatever you wish to call them) that you take it
inside.
If you're trying to drum up support to get
the David Biedny ousted from his own show:
1) Don't. We don't appreciate it. We like David just fine, thanks very much.
2) Cut it out. He's a pro, and last time I checked, you don't have anything near his credentials. If I'm wrong, please correct me. I'm not aware of your broadcast experience or "small town imaging expert" ability (which, by the way, other than WAY downplaying his true expertise, happens to be
crucial to analyzing images
such as the Capitola "Chad" drones as real or hoaxes, among others. David is an extremely valuable member of the UFO community if for
nothing else than his Photoshop and other computer imaging expertise. If he were only a guest and not a mod, host, and creator, we would want him here for his experience and opinion as much as possible. Feel free to back me up here, anyone.
David is a world-recognized authority on the subject. We're very lucky to have him here on the Paracast, as both someone that has come forward (a pretty gutsy thing to do, if you ask me, even in 2008 ) about his own experiences, and as an imaging expert. David Biedny can run his little finger over a photo, and just from the grain of the image, have more credibility with an opinion as to its worth than you have in the whole of your body.
3) You'll find you'll have a lot better luck trying to drum up support for an ouster against one of the co-founders of this very forum and podcast if you do it on a one-on-one basis than posting polls and questions about the subject in front of God and everybody. Which is to say, none--we'll
still ask you to cut it out, but it would be a lot less tacky than to do it in front of all of us.
4) David has already brought this subject up, from the seat of his own self-image, and was group-hugged by the entire Paracast community and told to stop worrying about it. The reason that most of us are here is that, whether we listen to some other radio show and/or podcast, we have decided that we
like the style of interview, the questions asked, and, indeed, the host personalities.
You have your answer; if there were any chance that you doubted it before. We are big fans of David Biedny here. And Gene Steinberg. We like it this way, and if
you don't, stop polling us, and check out ATS, or Coast, or Dreamland, or Banal of America, or any of the other vast numbers of UFO/paranormal shows out there.
When the Internet/Worldwide Web became accessible to the mainstream, UFOs were the
second most searched about subject after sex (and I'd be willing to bet that the numbers were pretty close). Every yahoo (pardon) and his brother has had a chance to start a program, make a buck, shill, and generally spout bullshit on the web regarding what may be the most important subject of the millennium, to quote Stanton Friedman (one of the ones that hasn't).
David Biedny and Gene Steinberg have found the balance between skeptic and student, observer and believer, just plain interested and passer-by.
If you don't like his comments, interview style, guest choices, his meandering style of thinking, the cadence of his tone--whatever--I would recommend that you go the fuck away.
If you like what
he has created and continues to promulgate here, then get used to it. We're willing to accept you and your subjective point of view--indeed, it takes all kinds--but it looks like Gene has had it with you, and while I respect all sides of the story, opinions are indeed like assholes; everybody has one. That doesn't mean we have to like yours. It's shitty and it stinks.
In
my humble opinion.
There are many places on the Internet that you can check out and listen to new stories, check out views and hear about what may be new evidence regarding UFOs and the Paranormal.
Very, very few allow you to comment on them and help shape their actual message and their own voice.
This is one of the things that makes The Paracast special. Out of a myriad of things. The others are too scared of having their message shaped by their listeners into something different--something that they might not have control over--that they don't even allow it. And that is one of the things that makes our community here truly unique.
You are a kind of beta tester. You got to log on, start an account, register for free, voice your opinion, exercise your First Amendment rights to free speech (if you're an American), and more or less impugn David's hosting style and questioning, on his own message board, about his own show. You didn't have to pay a fee, you got to keep your anonymity (David didn't), didn't have to pay or even place your credit card number in jeopardy--you got do do all this for free.
The rest of us have spoken, and we seem to be legion in agreement that not only do we like it, but we choose to be members and the audience for said style here rather than any of the aforementioned choices
for the very reason you take issue with it--we think David Biedny is the shit.
He's the man. And, again, just for added emphasis,
IT'S HIS SHOW.
If you don't like it, you are free to go away, not listen to it, and find something else more to your liking.
In the meanwhile, if you'd like to be a productive member of the Paracast community, then buck up and deal with it. Loosen up a bit, and take in the differing points of view that you seem to have a problem with so far. I like David's perspective, and frankly, I'm going to echo the chorus here when I say that I enjoy his humor, opinions, and occasional tangential dynamic. I vastly prefer his gumption, his chutzpah, his willingness to take the guests to task, over George Noory's yes-man attitude, or Banal's "awesome" response to nearly
everything.
You'll not find many like-minded folks here. So, deal with it like an adult, and realize how cool an opportunity you have here, or take your business elsewhere.
And please, even though we obviously support your right to think and say what you like, don't bag on the B-man. He's already self-conscious enough as it is, and we really don't want him to restrain himself any more.
Bring it, David! Bring it! :