Richard Dolan &, um....

[aNorthernSoul]

The requirement is a full server with plenty of bandwidth. It's not just a simple hosting service, and we are under contract with our current provider, for six more months.

Yup, I realize that... that's why I added "popular" as the bandwidth, stability and space is of utmost importance. It's no minor donation unless you are running a pretty big setup but like I said, I do know of at least a handful of shows where this is the case. Ha ha! Of course, it's easy for me to say all this as I am not the one donating the resources.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Yup, I realize that... that's why I added "popular" as the bandwidth, stability and space is of utmost importance. It's no minor donation unless you are running a pretty big setup but like I said, I do know of at least a handful of shows where this is the case. Ha ha! Of course, it's easy for me to say all this as I am not the one donating the resources.

It's a worthwhile discussion, since the issue came up. You ought to know what we are trying to accomplish and the tools at our disposal.

 

[jpw.in.wi]

This is just a totally blind shot in the dark, but maybe Dolan's decisions to associate with these "questionable" characters are not of his own free will. Money and perceived fame are only a few of the powerful motivators of human behavior. There are darker ones as well ...

I, too, hope he'll be back on the show soon for a little cross examination. Weird stuff ...

 

[Schuyler]

Here are the 'other' speakers at the Serpo Conference:

Miriam Delicado – contacted at an early age by benevolent, tall, blonde ETs. Check out the ‘blonds’ (sic) http://alienbluestar.com/

George Green – works closely with Pleiadeans to wake people up. Plus, we’re all gonna die. Check it out: http://www.nomorehoaxes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=60

Bob Dean – knows all about Nibiru and Planet X and says the Anunnaki are active on Mars

Marcia Schafer – Wife of Bob Dean, preparing people for their inner mission to save the planet. Wrote: ‘Confessions of an Intergalactic Anthropologist. Check it out: http://www.beyondzebra.com/intergalacticanthropologist.shtml

Carrie Cassidy – Co-founder of Project Camelot with Matt Ryan.

Matt Ryan – He’s the Project Serpo guy, totally discredited. Check it out: http://www.serpo.org/

Duncan O’Finioan – PTSD suffer who says the military has super soldiers with amazing strength and psychic abilities of mind control

Dan Burisch – with a fake doctorate claims he was once part of majestic 12 and talked with the alien, J-Rod.

Maria McDowell – sidekick to Burisch, also has a ‘doctorate’ Check it out: http://www.drmarciamcdowell.org/

David Wilcox – a spiritual kind of guy. Check him out: http://www.divinecosmos.com/

 

[Ron Collins]

Well, then I guess we better shut down this show, because we're definitely NOT doing this for some enormous payoff. As far as I know - and Gene can fill in the blanks here - we're not even covering our hosting fees with the advertising money coming in right now. I'm not attacking what you're saying, Ron, I agree with your post, it's just frustrating, that's all.

dB

David, sometimes I feel like I say things and it instantly comes off all wrong. My intent was to say if you are focused on the $$$$ aspect of researching this phenomenon, there is enough there to spew whatever you want and get paid. If you don't give a hoot about truth and will gladly tout speculation as fact then you can get paid. Is it in the millions? I don't think so, but it keeps food on the table, gas in the car, and the personality adored.

You, Gene and many many others do not fall into that category. The fact that charlatans get the money and exposure and real researchers and truth seekers get the shaft truly sucks.

What I should have said is, to those with no scruples it is all about money and the sooner you realize that the better off you'll be.

 

[Gareth]

Here are the 'other' speakers at the Serpo Conference:

Miriam Delicado – contacted at an early age by benevolent, tall, blonde ETs. Check out the ‘blonds’ (sic) http://alienbluestar.com/

George Green – works closely with Pleiadeans to wake people up. Plus, we’re all gonna die. Check it out: http://www.nomorehoaxes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=60

Bob Dean – knows all about Nibiru and Planet X and says the Anunnaki are active on Mars

Marcia Schafer – Wife of Bob Dean, preparing people for their inner mission to save the planet. Wrote: ‘Confessions of an Intergalactic Anthropologist. Check it out: http://www.beyondzebra.com/intergalacticanthropologist.shtml

Carrie Cassidy – Co-founder of Project Camelot with Matt Ryan.

Matt Ryan – He’s the Project Serpo guy, totally discredited. Check it out: http://www.serpo.org/

Duncan O’Finioan – PTSD suffer who says the military has super soldiers with amazing strength and psychic abilities of mind control

Dan Burisch – with a fake doctorate claims he was once part of majestic 12 and talked with the alien, J-Rod.

Maria McDowell – sidekick to Burisch, also has a ‘doctorate’ Check it out: http://www.drmarciamcdowell.org/

David Wilcox – a spiritual kind of guy. Check him out: http://www.divinecosmos.com/

It is indeed a dubious list.

A couple of typos I thought I would get pedantic about... Kerry Cassidy & Bill Ryan

 

[Ron Collins]

Here are the 'other' speakers at the Serpo Conference:

Miriam Delicado – contacted at an early age by benevolent, tall, blonde ETs. Check out the ‘blonds’ (sic) http://alienbluestar.com/

George Green – works closely with Pleiadeans to wake people up. Plus, we’re all gonna die. Check it out: http://www.nomorehoaxes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=60

Bob Dean – knows all about Nibiru and Planet X and says the Anunnaki are active on Mars

Marcia Schafer – Wife of Bob Dean, preparing people for their inner mission to save the planet. Wrote: ‘Confessions of an Intergalactic Anthropologist. Check it out: http://www.beyondzebra.com/intergalacticanthropologist.shtml

Carrie Cassidy – Co-founder of Project Camelot with Matt Ryan.

Matt Ryan – He’s the Project Serpo guy, totally discredited. Check it out: http://www.serpo.org/

Duncan O’Finioan – PTSD suffer who says the military has super soldiers with amazing strength and psychic abilities of mind control

Dan Burisch – with a fake doctorate claims he was once part of majestic 12 and talked with the alien, J-Rod.

Maria McDowell – sidekick to Burisch, also has a ‘doctorate’ Check it out: http://www.drmarciamcdowell.org/

David Wilcox – a spiritual kind of guy. Check him out: http://www.divinecosmos.com/

WOW, that lineup just oozes credibility doesn't it.

 

[David Biedny]

From Marcia Shafer's website:

IMAGINE
mixing the vision of Arthur C. Clarke, the business smarts of Peter Drucker,
the compassion of Mother Theresa and the twisted wit of Joan Rivers.
Open your eyes and you have Beyond Zebra founder Marcia Schafer,
where progressive and innovative meet business consulting.

Yeah, and the humility of Napoleon...

dB

 

[aNorthernSoul]

Speaking of Project Camelot, there is a big spat between them and Michael St. Clair. Basically, it sounds like it sure seems to be simply about money but there are accusations of "handling" within Project Camelot and St. Clair being "under the foot of the Illuminati." Ha ha! It's comical to hear these characters discussing credibility etc. LIGHT-SEEDS by Michael St.Clair

 

[Paul Kimball]

On Green, whom I've had the displeasure to meet, and conferences in general:

http://redstarfilms.blogspot.com/2005/03/ufo-conferences-vs-ufo-cons.html

Paul

 

[Miah]

Why not charge 99 cents per episode to download? That's dirt-cheap, and it's well worth it.

If Xbox 360 can sell TV show episodes at the same price, surely something this specialized could.

 

[methshin]

Why not charge 99 cents per episode to download? That's dirt-cheap, and it's well worth it.

If Xbox 360 can sell TV show episodes at the same price, surely something this specialized could.

I think if they charged $5 for a yearly subscription through iTunes, it would be a lot easier. People are gonna shy away from spending $52 a year, and it might do more damage than good. But if you charge something measly like $5 a year, there will be little to no drop-off in popularity. That and if you times 5 by the amount of listeners (give or take 10%) you end up with a shit load of cash you didn't have before, as well as the fact that you are no longer tied to your advertisors.

 

[aNorthernSoul]

Is iTunes currently capable of paid subscriptions for feeds? I didn't think that feature was available just yet.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

I think if they charged $5 for a yearly subscription through iTunes, it would be a lot easier. People are gonna shy away from spending $52 a year, and it might do more damage than good. But if you charge something measly like $5 a year, there will be little to no drop-off in popularity. That and if you times 5 by the amount of listeners (give or take 10%) you end up with a shit load of cash you didn't have before, as well as the fact that you are no longer tied to your advertisors.

Not all our downloads are through iTunes. And we promised the episodes would be free, and that's the way it shall be. We have no problems with paid ads, donations, etc., but the core "product," as they say in show biz, will never exact a dime to get it from us. It's possibly we might do premium stuff, such as CD collections and so forth and so on, but we don't want to go down the path to paid downloads of the actual episodes.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Is iTunes currently capable of paid subscriptions for feeds? I didn't think that feature was available just yet.

I'm not sure this can be done with Podcasts listed on iTunes. You'd have to set aside a password-protected fully secured area of some sort for transactions of this sort, from the site itself. Our traffic would dip tremendously.

 

[aNorthernSoul]

I'm not sure this can be done with Podcasts listed on iTunes. You'd have to set aside a password-protected fully secured area of some sort for transactions of this sort, from the site itself. Our traffic would dip tremendously.

I agree whole heartedly. I think if you were to introduce some sort of paid service, it would need to be value added and leave the podcast delivery (your bread and butter for traffic inducers) unaffected.

 

[Miah]

You got to do something to stay afloat, and to feel it's worth doing at all. What you're doing right now isn't worth it, financially I mean. You certainly shouldn't be paying to do it!

I'd rather pay per episode than get the email that it's over. What else is there worth a crap on the subject...

You need to change something. With $1 per episode, I can decide not to buy the ones on ghosts which I don't give a hoot about personally. Yearly small fee would work too. Or come up with a premium something or other worth paying for.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

The best way, I think, is with sponsorships. There are lots of businesses out there that I think would pay for a presence on the show if they were contacted by a savvy salesperson, who knew how to get across our message.

For those who do want to pay for the episodes, we appreciate your donations, really. David and I would prefer to keep that voluntary. If you think that $1 per episode is what it's worth, go for it. More is fine, nothing is fine too.

On the long term, we desperately need the sales/marketing person. If you know of somebody, or think you have the chops to do the job, send me a private message with your information and I'll follow up with you.

We've had a couple of people join us recently who worked for a few days, then disappeared (literally -- they stopped responding to calls and emails). Strange.

 

[aNorthernSoul]

While I doubt everyone would do it, why not try the honour system and see how it pans out by doing a yearly donation drive with a recommended donation of $10 per subscriber? Hey, if the TV Evangelists can get away with it, why can't somebody actually offering a service with some real value?

I would do it happily.

 

[aNorthernSoul]

We've had a couple of people join us recently who worked for a few days, then disappeared (literally -- they stopped responding to calls and emails). Strange.

Obviously the CIA has hired the aliens to permanently abduct these people to stifle your message to the general public. It's the ONLY reasonable explanation.