pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Well.. Ill tell you this.. I mean I'd heard from the likes of Frank Warren and co that he was running the show to encourage money, and not for the love of it. And there were rumors of fraud. But.., then other folk say he's a normal guy and none of these tales were correct! Anyway, (this was around 2 years ago) I went on the Paracast, almost just to tick it off the list and because people just suggested I should. No biggie. But right afterwards I started getting emails (my email address is everywhere, so no surprises) from various anonymous people telling me why I shouldn't be on the show, or, if I do decide to go on again then I should ask Gene about this or that, or that I should get dirt on him, etc. I also was directed to one Jeremy Vaeni's blog, and parts of it were extremely humorous in a downbeat sort of way (ironically I was also on Jeremy's podcast too some time ago which was fun).. So thats sort of what happened. As an aside, at the end of the day, one of the reasons I was reluctant to beleive half the allegations regarding Gene was because I actually found out that one of the people anonymously emailing me (from the very beggining too) was an entity by the name of "Waller Joel". People have absolutely insisted that I must not beleive a single word this unreliable and inconsistent Mr. Joel says, right.. So when Joel says bad stuff about Gene, I was adept to think the opposite. Get me? Anyhow, here we are. So this Gene Financial Shenanigans thread is huge. Its like 100s of pages. So much info. Im new here on this forum, so I'm just working things out. If all this stuff about Gene and his family and the motel room (some of which seems like a bad sitcom to me more than anything) is true, why the hell is the show still going? I know with 99.99% certainty that here in Australia, nothing, no radio show or magazine or whatever, would survive in the face of all this.
Whatever the case may be, The Paracast was something I enjoyed for years and still sort of miss it. Putting on an episode and hearing that intro was how I began many adventures (in a service truck). Didn't mean I agreed with all of it, and even actively disliked some of it, but kept coming back because usually at some point continuing to listen brought something interesting.
Gene has a heavy hand in his forums as do his admins and many of us, myself included, got rankled for having our posted content fiddled with gratuitously and then be lied to when asked about it. Eventually I took my marbles and went elsewhere - which was right here at AE. Add the endless begging to his less than forthright forum behavior, then suffer the loss of a decent co-host and you have a recipe for the remnant that's left. He shot himself in the foot.
It sounds like you were allowed to come and go without being slimed.