247: The PodShow Contract

[DJQuad]

Originally Posted by Comic Strip Blogger

they would have chances, but this cheap self-promotion stunt of Keith and G may have destroyed these chances.

Fucktard, the chances at what? Giving up the rights to everything they've built up?

Listen to the full show before you open your misinformed trap again.

[DJQuad]

Originally Posted by Comic Strip Blogger

NO! Some people just want free podcast hosting space and "being part of Podshow family" is more important to them than earning money on podcasting.

You're saying Podcasters can't afford $30/mo for hosting at Libsyn?

Oh that and being part of the Podshow family.

It's not a family, it's a business and a ridiculous scam.

The only things Curry would feel sorry about if Soccergirl got ran over by a bus are that he'd lose advertising placement and he couldn't see any new titty pics.

[MattTwo]

Adam Curry's commenting about this show on his show, today, (DSC 362)

[Scooper12]

Originally Posted by MattTwo

Adam Curry's commenting about this show on his show, today, (DSC 362)

I just listened to it..... holy shit! They cloaked their response in a scripted skit which is so lame and makes no real point. It's like he's pissed off but is still too scared to directly confront KATG... as if he still thinks he can land them!

[PodcastRant.com]

Listening to the PodShow show at the moment. One little correction and if this has already been posted forgive me. You get your likeness and shows back after your contracted term. If they let you go, you get your shit back. It says that they own it during the term of contract.

The contract still sucks but they do get their stuff back.

[MichaelG]

Originally Posted by DJQuad

I've seen two of their videocasts. They are so far beyond bad they're not even bad anymore.

Mary wants my package.

I saw the video cast, and holy shit I was bored. I did notice Mary had a nicer body, but it was not worth the time listening to them squeal the whole time

[PodcastRant.com]

I agree they were useless.

[Annie]

Wow - that contract is a huge neon sign that says =

Adam Curry is making a stable of whores. He is the pimp with all the cash and real control, while the "producers" are the whores. Basically, the producers only get limited creative control. That's like saying the whore gets to choose which position to get fucked.

[ugm2099]

just listened to adam curry's response... it starts at 7m 50sec in his show.

He talks about what happened then plays a gay skit they recorded about a fictional conversation podshow had in response to hearing that their shady contract was leaked.

Podshow then made an offer to KATG (specifically, to Keith and "Kemda") to fly them out to SF and talk about a contract..

digg it:

http://digg.com/robots/Adam_Curry_s_...e_Girl_podcast

[william]

Dear Keith and Chemda

As a long time listener...

Similar to Scientology, I used to belong to a cult religion. We had our own schools (from kindergarten right up through college), meeting halls, spiritual guides, rituals, etc.. You name it, we had it. This insured you were isolated from other forms of thought during your formative years.

Worse than Scientology, we got kids when they were young. From an early age parents were encouraged to teach their kids how to worship our Founder. One of our traditions involved having your children repeat a mantra every night just before they fell asleep. Kids are the most susceptible then so this assured that the beliefs would become part of their makeup. The mantra included sick things like asking for our founder's protection in case the child died in their sleep.

Once a week we had to attend a meeting. There were also annual obligatory meetings that you couldn't miss. If you did you were immediately expelled. The only way back into the cult was to beg for forgiveness from one of the spiritual leaders. They would then give you some arbitrary tasks to perform, including chanting some brain-washing mantra hundreds of times.

We believed in ghosts, evil spirits, and the ever watchful eye of the Founder. We were told that the Founder always keeping an eye on us, writing down whenever we would fuck up so that he could punish us in the future.

There were a bunch of stupid rules such as not being able to jerk-off or marry people who weren't part of the cult. I could go on for pages but needless to say some of the must fucked up rules had to do with sex. These people were sex obsessed. Sex was such a hot and dirty topic that somewhere along the lines it was decided that our Founder never did it. Not only that - they actual went back and claimed that his mother also never had sex!

Eventually we found out that a lot of the spiritual leaders were fucking everyone, including kids!

These mantras were core to our beliefs. By the age of five we had them memorized and repeated them daily. They usually began by acknowledging how powerful and wonderful our founder was.

One of the sickest things about this cult was that it's central practice revolved around cannibalism. Now since we couldn't actually eat a person our founders decided that we would use a cheap cracker as a substitute for human flesh. But for all intents and purposes we were told that we weren't eating a cracker but instead through the magic words that one of the spiritual leaders would say, the cracker would turn into human flesh. Oh, by the way, we also drank magic human blood.

If that wasn't sick enough for you, all of us would carry an amulet depicting a brutal execution - blood, gore and all. You see, back when our Founder was alive people realized that he was a little kooky. He would go around claiming he could bring the dead back to life, end hunger with a single loaf of bread, cure diseases with his mighty touch, etc... You know, the kind of claims we're always hearing from cult leaders and charlatans. At one point he we went into a market and started smashing up every one's place of business, telling them that he knew better and that they were all going against god's will. Things got so bad that after a while one of his buddies had enough. He went to the cops, collected his reward, and turned the Founder in.

At the trial witnesses recalled the Founder saying that he was going to destroy a temple. He kept his mouth shut for most of the proceedings until he admitted that he was a direct descendant of their god and that he was going to judge them all. Well, back then they didn't have therapy or psycho-therapeutic drugs so they did the only thing they could do - they executed him.

Amazing!

- William