The paracast

I was a member of the paracast forum and came away very disappointed. The host, well one of them, is a total jerk..David B. They say they are there to listen and claim to have an open mind about issues. I made comments on the fact that David B. is a very annoying host who acts like he has all the answers and continually cuts down other hosts of paranormal broadcast shows...I think it has something to do with envy and jealousy of thier success. God forbid you don't agree with he and his yes men on that forum otherwise you are looking at ban for life. If you go on there you will notice that it is only a few guys who continue to post on that forum and they are all the ones who continue to kiss his butt. That forum is the least credible due to fact that it is only the ones who agree with the hosts who are allowed to post without worrying about being banned. David B. has banned people who disagree with him and threatens everyone else with a ban when they have something different to say. If any one who has been on that forum and agrees please reply and if you don't reply anyways. I like this forum because they allow disageements to happen and long as they don't get out of hand.

Glad you found us here at ATS....welcome!

As co-host of The Paracast, I'm pleased to report that only a handful of members have been banned since our message boards were established a year ago, and that's for egregious violations of our very simple terms of service.

In fact, our board participation and membership continues to increase by leaps and bounds, but I suppose not everyone is going to like what we do or how we do it.

In saying that, David Biedny and I are enthusiastic readers and occasional participants here at Above Top Secret, and we're happy to recommend this place to anyone who wants to engage in the most wide-ranging discussions available anywhere.


[edit on 20-3-2007 by genesteinberg]

Uhhh... I've met David on two seperate occasions and he absolutely does not act like he knows all the answers. From both listening to the Paracast and speaking with Biedny I've gathered that he is more reasonable than the majority of both debunkers and believers. And the fact that he goes after hoaxers like they owe him money is a breath of fresh air.

Gene and Dave damn well should go after other paranormal hosts. Other hosts just sit on their asses, say "uh huh" a lot, and collect big paychecks. Paranormal radio has become "Story Time with the Cool Voiced Host."

And as for getting banned, I don't know what to tell you about that. The only radio message board that I'm a member of is wackbag, and you'd have to curse out a mod's mother to get banned from there.
Did you support the Meier case? That should be enough to get you banned from anywhere...

Gene and David are great hosts. I think they should have their own fm radio
show on every day.

There can great diversity of opinion and perspective on the same thing or person. Some think Biedny's a sincere and honest guy. I think he's duplicitous and dishonest.

I'm one of those "few" banned from their little message board. After being banned (so I was incapable of responding publicly) Biedny claimed it was done because I exposed my real name and that I'd "confessed" a motive to create chaos and disrupt. Substantively, both those were lies. I posted only that my full forum name was "Verum Peto"; as any reasonably educated man would know that's Latin for "seeker of truth". And I never confessed to any such motives. I was challenging Biedny to apply the same standard of truth to his own peculiar "experiences" as he subjects his guests.

To recap, if I may...he claims to have witnessed an enormous craft--"too large to comprehend" is how I believe he characterizes it--together with thousands of others over a major South American city. I questioned why he has not even a newspaper article to support that others (beyond his own brother) in fact saw this remarkable event. He and his co-host claim he's tried and can't find any documentation. He claims to have witnessed a faceless girl who vanished into thin air. He claims to have witnessed a daytime flying saucer over a major population area (near where I currently reside, coincidentally), followed by a helicopter which, I suppose in an attempt to be discreet, issued a public announcement to "Go into your houses". Again, no newspaper or other media reports of any sort. He claims a flying saucer tracked his family DOWN THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE. There's a clear pattern here of extraordinary, outlandish and completely unsupportable experiences.

Having listened to him assault guests with experiences far less extreme than his own, I questioned how he managed to do that with a straight face. I noted that his experiences had all the hallmarks of a psychotic episode; i.e., a classic break from reality. In his typically outrageous fashion he responded with vulgarity, lies (including that I'd called him a psychotic, as if he's unable to distinguish what I'd said) and relentless deviations from the real issue of his own experiences.

So, Biedny banned me. I followed that with an e-mail to Steinberg. Now my impression of Steinberg is that he is a mature, thoughtful, sincere and honest man. I advised him that Biedny had lied about my posting my "real name" and confessing an ulterior motive, and asked that he simply correct those misrepresentations. He never replied, either publicly or privately.

Now the message of this to me is that Biedny is not to be trusted at face value. I know from personal experience that he is not truthful, that he misrepresents, evades and attempts to bully dissent with a barrage of childish inanities, peppered with a 7th grader's taste for vulgarity. I would encourage anyone with an interest in examing Biedny's credibility first hand to go to The Paracast forums and read the posts directly. I have never posted anything vulgar or otherwise inappropriate. I was banned for challenging Biedny to apply a threshold of reasonableness to his own "experiences" before making a small career of castigating others.

And that is simply one man's perspective on Biedny. (Why are those who speak loudest for the truth and claim to be advocates for open dialogue the first to react like little dictators when any controversy swirls around their own heads?) I'd welcome a response from either Biedny or Steinberg here, in a forum which they can't control or in which they can't ban dissent or legitimate questioning. I understand their thirst for a real radio program. And perhaps Biedny's childishness is shtick to attempt to build an audience. But I suspect he is exactly what he appears to be. And that's someone whose veracity, judgement and maturity leave much to be desired.

Interesting event. I just went over to The Paracast forum. Lo and behold, a poster named Riggs put up a very funny link to a video in which an "interviewer" asks very basic questions of obviously ill-informed Americans. Biedny posts this, in response:



A half hour later he claims Riggs insulted him and so--BADA BOOM!--Riggs gets banned!

By my count, their forum has only 75 posters with more than 50 posts, only 241 with more than 5...and 30 have been banned in just 22 months. And I'd give big odds that most of those were because of imagined (or maybe even real, whether deserved or not!) slights to the venerable Mr. Biedny. Hoisted and petards!

Verum - Of course you failed to mention the name of the forum Riggs was banned from. David B wanted to know if everyone wanted him to leave the show. Riggs got personal and started calling him names. Instead of using constructive criticism, Riggs acted like a tool. He would have been banned on ATS or any other forum.

As for you Verum you apparently thought that every time David mentioned a listener that didn't like him, You thought he was talking about you personally. So off you go to the forums calling David out. Stirring up a bunch of crap.

I've told David MANY times on the forums and in personal PM's that he was being a tool and to knock it off. Many people have.

Also if your banned why are you hanging out over on the Paracasts little forum. Judging from the size of your 2 posts I'm sure your still pretty bitter about being banned and it probably still keeps you up at night. I mean you counted and did a statistical analysis of forum users on there forums for christsakes! Let it go dude, cause we've sure forgotten about you.

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Mothra, apparently you like Biedny, see nothing odd in his postings, stories or behavior. I can live with that. But, from what I can see, Riggs only posted twice, and I don't see anything indicating he called David any names. He was banned because Biedny is a remarkably thin skinned individual. Even the post to which you refer is absurd; his little "do you like me" survey is so self-indulgent and prepubescent for a grown man as to make one's skin crawl. What's wrong with this guy?

Everything I've written here is, as you're well-aware, accurate and true. I never "stirred up" anything. I raised legitimate questions about a very odd series of "experiences" that, instead of being addressed, are cleverly and falsely interpreted as personal attacks to enable Biedny and Steinberg to ban anyone who challenges them in any way. Of course, the record's all there on The Paracast forum, and I'd invite anyone to read it and come to their own conclusions. Biedny is THE source of vulgar accusations, near-maniacal attacks and some of the most peculiar postings by a "host" ever.

As for my taking the time to do a "statistical analysis"...it took a good 3 minutes and it's hardly statistical or an analysis. It's a simple count from their forum. Of course, if you bothered to reach into your critical thinking skills perhaps you'd be objective enough to see how ridiculous Biedny, his claims and his very transparent efforts to turn his "creations" into a commercial radio enterprise really are. There's something seriously wrong with the whole contrived foolishness.

As to my post here, I'd have gladly had the issue out to conclusion with Biedny at his own forum, but that's not how they play. They ban dissent, encourage only agreement and are the most preposterously hypocritical duo ever. (I join Steinberg in that because he clearly knows what Biedny's all about and continues to defend his absurd behavior and preposterous stories.)

Biedny is a phony, a liar, a self-important buffoon. He relentlessly dubs himself the world's leading Photoshop expert, yet has to go to South America for dental work because he can't afford U.S. dental work. He is on a search for the financial success which has eluded him his whole life, and his last best hope is trying to make money off their little podcast. Surely you've seen their "ads" appealing for people to sell their shows to terrestrial radio and to hawk commercials for them. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that. But doesn't it give rise to a question? Why is it no one ever heard of Biedny or his remarkable "experiences" until a year ago when he started claiming these absolutely extraordinary occurrences. Where has he been all those decades before his new-found passion for disclosure? Why is it that he never, in all those years before his "disclosures" started a year or so ago, even told his good friend Steinberg, a person he knew to be a long-time "researcher" of paranormal events. Had he ever publicly disclosed these "experiences" anywhere and to anyone before the inevitable, albeit highly unlikely, movement toward a commercial pot of radio gold?

At the end of the day, Biedny is a danger to any attempt to examine the truth. He is not only duplicitous and disingenuous but his motivations and "experiences" are more suspect than any now in public domain. At arms' length, and looking at all the facts and circumstances, Biedny's claims would immediately be discounted out-of-hand by any thinking person. He is not to be taken seriously. It is only a matter of time before his little house of cards comes crashing down around him. How many ridiculously bizarre stories can he offer before someone starts asking the hard questions...the ones they pretend to ask!

So you don't like David??

I've ripped David a new one several times for his behavior. I told him he was acting like a child and yes I was irritated that he would give someone like Jeff Ritzman a pass and not anyone else. What evidence does Ritzman have in regards to his experiences. He has nothing. I hammered him for peddling the healer form South America, hell they devoted a whole show to it. Most the time it wasn't on the forums, but in emails and PM's.

I read Riggs post before it was deleted. He called David a fat slob and some other choice words.

Who cares were he gets his teeth fixed? Apparently you do.

yes you stirred up quite a bit. Spin it all you want, you were hostile and got banned.

Verum I've had a couple things happen to me in my life that would absolutely crush a normal person to dust. I don't have a forum to discuss these issues. If I started a podcast and started spilling my guts, would it make me any less credible? Would you come out and say I was a fraud because I was just now talking about it?

And lets get something straight. I wasn't defending David or the Paracast. Sometimes David irritates me to the point were I don't wanna listen anymore. I responded to your post because you weren't telling the whole side of the story. Going on a forum and flat out calling the Host and admin of a forum a liar many many times will get you banned anywhere.

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Oh, now I get it. By playing the dual role of host/moderator and "experiencer" Biedny insulates himself from any challenge, not honestly--by debating the facts--but through the dishonest shorthand of BANNING the challenger. That's quite the little gambit, isn't it?

And just to set the record straight, Biedny is, as a simple matter of fact, dishonest, at least as it respects what he wrote about me and my "motivations" in posting on The Paracast forum. And I know that first hand, as does Steinberg. What he posted about me was untrue, posted only after he'd ensured I couldn't respond in that very same forum in which he published those untruths. However, I challenge you to post here a copy of any Paracast post in which I called Biedny a liar because of his experiences, or where I did anything more than vigorously pursue the facts and circumstances surrounding his earth-shatteringly extraordinary claims...for which he offers not a single shred of objective evidence.

He offers not even a newspaper article documenting that he was joined by thousands of people in Caracas witnessing an enormous craft over that city in broad daylight which simply "blinked out". I'm not asking for a photo or an artifact. I'm asking for the very basic threshold of documentation that these self-important hosts pretend to apply each week. Just show me the recounting of this remarkable event in a legitimate newspaper coincident with the timing of the sighting Biedny claims. Surely such an extraordinary event would have been reported SOMEWHERE. Even his own family didn't keep a copy of a newspaper article to document and record such a life-changing event? Time after time Biedny claims remarkable events yet offers not a scintilla of evidence. For the Caracas sighting he trots out his brother who hesitatingly agrees, under a volley of leading questions. For his vanishing faceless girl he brings out his friend who sort of remembers it that way. But never does he present something approaching verification, even when the events would have involved countless co-witnesses (as his two New Jersey sightings and, surely, the Caracas event).

All I am suggesting is that Biedny needs for his claims to be put to the test, to be subjected to the harsh rigors of evidence and proof. He should not be given a free pass because he is a podcast host, a forum moderator or a Photoshop expert. I am suggesting that his claims deserve extra scrutiny given their timing--only AFTER his podcast began--and an apparent motive--his clear search for a commercial pot of gold at the end of his radio rainbow. He was an invisible man, an unknown in "ufology" and the paranormal until his emergence and carefully timed dribbling out of self-proclaimed "cautious" disclosures about truly stunning claims. Perhaps that is all coincidence, driven by the happy fortuity of joining his old friend Gene in a podcast which offered a ready forum for such disclosures. Or perhaps there is another motivation, and for that there is a very plausible possibility. (And, since it seems to have missed its mark, I mentioned Biedny's self-announced trip to South America for dental work as support for the possibility that economics may be a motivator.)

Biedny and his cohorts, like you Mothra, help distract from the fundamental issues surrounding his claims. Let's move away from the idiocy and lies surrounding my banning (a fate shared by quite a few forum participants for reasons only Biedny and Steinberg know). Let's focus on his claims and, by virtue of his "believe me because of who I am" posture, his character. I say both are suspect. I say both need further review and consideration. I say both need to be viewed with a jaundiced eye...unless and until he offers some evidence to support what he asks us to believe. Simple enough?