rayelias
<font color=peach>An expert on only some things ;)
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2004
Hey, Podcast Team!
Love the podcast - I've not missed a single one since the beginning (well, maybe one from the "old style", but none since the advent of the roundtable.)
It's YOUR podcast, and it's YOUR right to say or do with it what you want, but if I may be so presumptuous, may I please make a suggestion?
I know you're very passionate about many issues (especially Pete). So are we all. Unfortunately, especially around election time, we can be rather polarized in this polarized country on certain issues. You know the old saying about not discussing religion or politics!
I, like many of your fans, am a "red-stater." Most, if not all of the podcast crew, seem to be "blue-staters." Pete, by your own admission, called yourself a "screaming, leftie, liberal." I'm a "right-wing nutjob." You say tomato, I say blow 'em all away and let God sort 'em out. (OK, I'm not THAT much of a right-wing nutjob!)
I love you guys, even though we have some differences of opinion, politically. The reason I, and the rest of your fans listen, is not for politics, but for our shared love of Disney.
I can't speak for anyone else, but when you guys (ok, mostly Pete) go on political rants, my natural instinct is to become defensive. I know you're intention is not to make personal attacks, but when I hear someone blast away at things I feel passionate about, it takes the fun out of the podcast, and makes me antagonistic. For example, when you said, that if "if you have any sense of the things going on in this country... you're part of the problem, not part of the solution," I took it as a slam on my strongly held beliefs. (Would this be considered a "point demerit" if one of us posted it? ) I have sense, but I have a different view on this issue. It was not very nice to belittle the beliefs of approximately half the population.
Again, it's your podcast. I'm not an activist demanding you to change what you say or how you say it. I love you guys, even when we disagree. I only offer this as constructive criticism, so that you don't potentially alienate newer listeners who may not "know" you guys as well as some of the longer listeners.
Leave the politics to the crazies (like me) on the Community Board!
Love the podcast - I've not missed a single one since the beginning (well, maybe one from the "old style", but none since the advent of the roundtable.)
It's YOUR podcast, and it's YOUR right to say or do with it what you want, but if I may be so presumptuous, may I please make a suggestion?
I know you're very passionate about many issues (especially Pete). So are we all. Unfortunately, especially around election time, we can be rather polarized in this polarized country on certain issues. You know the old saying about not discussing religion or politics!
I, like many of your fans, am a "red-stater." Most, if not all of the podcast crew, seem to be "blue-staters." Pete, by your own admission, called yourself a "screaming, leftie, liberal." I'm a "right-wing nutjob." You say tomato, I say blow 'em all away and let God sort 'em out. (OK, I'm not THAT much of a right-wing nutjob!)
I love you guys, even though we have some differences of opinion, politically. The reason I, and the rest of your fans listen, is not for politics, but for our shared love of Disney.
I can't speak for anyone else, but when you guys (ok, mostly Pete) go on political rants, my natural instinct is to become defensive. I know you're intention is not to make personal attacks, but when I hear someone blast away at things I feel passionate about, it takes the fun out of the podcast, and makes me antagonistic. For example, when you said, that if "if you have any sense of the things going on in this country... you're part of the problem, not part of the solution," I took it as a slam on my strongly held beliefs. (Would this be considered a "point demerit" if one of us posted it? ) I have sense, but I have a different view on this issue. It was not very nice to belittle the beliefs of approximately half the population.
Again, it's your podcast. I'm not an activist demanding you to change what you say or how you say it. I love you guys, even when we disagree. I only offer this as constructive criticism, so that you don't potentially alienate newer listeners who may not "know" you guys as well as some of the longer listeners.
Leave the politics to the crazies (like me) on the Community Board!