Can't Playback Feb. 27th Show From Archives

[Atrayo]

Hello Gene & Staff,

From your homepage i tried to listen to your most recent episode of Feb. 27th. My media player is able to load 2/3's of the podcast but freezes up on the last third. Thus being prevented from listening to the 5 year anniversary show from your homepage archives.

My internet browser is Mozilla Firefox version 3.6.14

My media player is the free Quicktime version 7.6.9 (1680.9)

Any suggestions would be appreciated in being able to listen to this episode.

Thank you.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Hello Gene & Staff,

From your homepage i tried to listen to your most recent episode of Feb. 27th. My media player is able to load 2/3's of the podcast but freezes up on the last third. Thus being prevented from listening to the 5 year anniversary show from your homepage archives.

My internet browser is Mozilla Firefox version 3.6.14

My media player is the free Quicktime version 7.6.9 (1680.9)

Any suggestions would be appreciated in being able to listen to this episode.

Thank you.

The easiest solution is to empty the browser cache and try again.

 

[Atrayo]

Hello Gene,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I ran CCcleaner and cleared around 117mb of junk.

This time however when i first tried to run the show i played the first 3 seconds sound effects of the show as the complete episode. I then hit the back browser button and tried again with the same results as earlier today.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

But evidently not the browser cache.

Try another browser if need be.

 

[Atrayo]

Hello Gene,

Thanks for your patience.

Well i tried another media player, which was "Windows". It worked just fine.

I completely uninstalled "Quicktime" thinking it was corrupted. I cleaned out the registry and old directory folder of quicktime and reinstalled the media player. Same deal.

Firefox did release a hotfix just now to version 3.6.15 where java apps were failing to load. But i don't see how that affects Quicktime.

I guess i'll listen to your show under "Windows Media Player", and disinfect myself afterwards.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Maybe you should be reinstalling QuickTime then. They're just normal MP3 files.

 

[Sean Elifritz]

I didn't have a problem with it.

Somebody mentioned during this episode Never Let Me Go being a good Sci-Fi film. How? The movie makes no sense. It's all style and no substance. Sure, it's got decent cinematography, acting, production values, mood, all that stuff. But the behavior of the characters is completely nonsensical and that makes it all fall apart. These characters are intelligent, educated, capable, and are given a fair degree of freedom. We see them driving around in cars, going to restaurants, visiting each other, etc. In other words, if they want to go somewhere they do. Considering all of that why on Earth would they show up to have their organs taken out? It's obvious they don't want to do it. They talk about deferrals and seem quite depressed about the whole thing. But like mindless lemmings each of them show up, of their own accord it seems, to their grisly appointments. Pigs will fly, Hell will freeze over, and you'll see Elvis riding on the shoulders of Bigfoot in a flying saucer before that will happen. Anyone who isn't completely suicidal or has a firing neuron in their head would run away and hide. But none of these characters do, they don't even discuss doing so with one another. It was like watching zombies being escorted through a slaughterhouse. At least in The Island the characters demonstrated some measure of an appropriate drive for self-preservation. They were also locked up and lied to because anyone that isn't coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs would run away if they were aware of the true nature of such a situation and had a means to. If characters are not believable then a movie is anything but good. 2 of 5 stars imo.

 

[Paul Kimball]

Considering all of that why on Earth would they show up to have their organs taken out? It's obvious they don't want to do it. They talk about deferrals and seem quite depressed about the whole thing. But like mindless lemmings each of them show up, of their own accord it seems, to their grisly appointments.

It was me, and we'll have to agree to disagree, because I thought it was a brilliant and thought-provoking piece of science fiction.

To your point of why they kept showing up, I would say two things. First, I think you're taking it too literally - the story, like all good sci-fi, is making a point about the real world, which I would frame as follows: "why do any of us show up, day after day?"

But even in the literal sense, they make it clear that the characters have devices in them of some sort that scan them and presumably are able to track them (which we may soon see in the real world). Then there's also their conditioning - just take a look at the Hitler Youth to see how people can be conditioned from their very young years to not question the system.

Paul

 

[Sean Elifritz]

It was me, and we'll have to agree to disagree, because I thought it was a brilliant and thought-provoking piece of science fiction.

To your point of why they kept showing up, I would say two things. First, I think you're taking it too literally - the story, like all good sci-fi, is making a point about the real world, which I would frame as follows: "why do any of us show up, day after day?"

But even in the literal sense, they make it clear that the characters have devices in them of some sort that scan them and presumably are able to track them (which we may soon see in the real world). Then there's also their conditioning - just take a look at the Hitler Youth to see how people can be conditioned from their very young years to not question the system.

Paul

Scanning device or not I would of ran and I think any rational person would. Imo you can get away with anything in fiction except for unbelievable characters. They should have portrayed at least one character trying to get away...at least that would have been a bone for the rationalist. No matter how futile resistance might have been (And it didn't look very futile in this film. Quite the contrary it looked to me to have a decent shot going for it) they would have had to drag me up onto that operating table unconscious or kicking and screaming. Had the characters behaved that way, or at least some of them, then I could have felt for their plight more because then they would have appeared more real rather than obviously fictionalized vehicles.

 

[SRL+]

Toward the end of the 5th anniversary show, Paul Kimball suggested that when the origin of the phenomena are uncovered, researchers in Ufology will fade into the background leaving top level researchers to move in. That isn’t necessarily true. If not for the researchers, authors, and writers the subject would have not advanced this far. I would think that the common person will say, “I thought they were nuts, but they were right”. Especially if the outcome was not as glamourous, or romantic as some have envisioned. When the curtain is pulled back, and the trick is revealed, it may not mean the same. Who knows, in the future it could be like checking the weather forecast with the meteorologist saying, “its gonna be partly cloudily with a 30% chance of paranormal activity”. I can say with a high degree of certainty that this subject will be looked back at as a testimonial to the creative, human imagination.