It's Monday, August 1, and Gary Null is still waiting for Berthold Reimers to fulfill his part of the agreement they made.
Did the wimp with the brains of a chimp spend the money on something else? It wouldn't be the first time, but Null is keeping his word and refusing to pitch until he gets a status report.
In the meantime, Null's own on-line network went down for a couple of days and—never one to lowball his own importance—he suggests that the disruption was the work of a pissed off government! Frankly, it is more likely to be the work of a very angry spirit protesting against Kathy Davis' increasingly nonsensical babble.
Well, it could also be a Reimers thing, like an unpaid bill... after all, Null never issued a follow-up on that dining room table he was auctioning off.
Has anyone else wondered if WBAI really even has record of every owed premium? They can't even keep the financial books properly.
ReplyDeleteI'm hearing a subtext here that Null made a deal with PBS and has reneged on it by offering the cookbooks on WBAI first. If so, it tells us how much Null is to be trusted.
You have to love Null's m.o. that PRN was hacked by a government because the hackers were so smart. He gives us a big claim without one iota of evidence. Who were the I.T. guys? Why don't we hear their report?. No proof of anything, as usual. Stinks of that one Tony Bates' infomercial where he claimed beeps on the phone line were due to "they" trying to suppress his information.
SDL
That PBS deal also had me wondering.
DeleteI guess Null has not come up with a powder that cures PP (Pacific Paranoia)
Apropos white suppression, did you know that the biggest slave revolt ever, the one Haskins unearthed 200 years later, was unknown because the white government and media wanted it to be kept a secret? Did you know that slaves were not the first Africans to migrate to North America? They established wondrous cities and a culture here long before the first slave disembarked. The white government doesn't want us to know this, but Ben and Henry, the old fuddy duddies who went to Hades recently, figured it out and had the courage to make it public.
How do I know all this? I heard Haskins, Bates and other deluded experts reveal it on WBAI. As they say.... "only on WBAI..."
Chris, dropping acid was so 60s. You need to graduate to yoga...
DeleteSDL
No acid, SDL, I'm just leery and all I had to drop was an "a".
DeleteWhat's funny is that although the www.prn.fm website was down, its audio feed never went down. It was available via online station aggregators, such as Tunein while the website itself was down.
ReplyDeleteI know that the CIA/FBI/NSA did it, but you'd still think that the most-listened-to radio station in the world would have a staff of crack sys admins to handle such (less than thorough) censorship by Nefarious Powers.
WBAI has the records. All they need to do is run a report. They certainly have the time since they're not working on the budget or doing any kind of development or changing the programming or paying the bills. Unbelievable. How is that Gary Null is actually the good guy here? He's raising money for the station and helping his people. BTW Gary, it was the Russians who hacked your site. They were practicing on you before hitting the DNC network.
ReplyDeleteChris, did that lady ever get reimbursed for travel to the Gary Null retreat she won from the station?
The question may well be: which records to use. Rarely is a figure made public without a different one popping up from another source.
DeleteAs I understood Null's latest comment, he said that "we" raised enough money to PURCHASE a six to 24 month backlog of premiums, "all of them from my office." That could either mean that the payment came from Null's office or that the products were from there.
Either way, I think the arrangement called for Null to be the first one to get paid. It's confusing, and probably deliberately so. I don't know if the station reimbursed that lady, but I heard no mention of the current asking price of $2,500.00 including transportation, just that they would be picked up "at the plane."
Like so many offers made by WBAI, this one lacked important details. If you look at the list of products on the station's website, you will see that shipping cost is a click away, but nothing comes up when you click.
What a laugh. This is just more of Gary Null trying to promote himself- "I'm so important, even the CIA and the KGB, the AMA and big pharma are hacking me". LMAO
DeleteFYI: I specifically heard Null say you have to pay your own transportation to the retreat. Your paid part only starts with getting picked up at the airport. I don't know if, at the end of the retreat, they drop you off at the airport.
ReplyDeleteI think the Null/WBAI deal may only be for his items, as how would he have all those supposed backlogged premiums from other suppliers at his office? Did they move everything out of WBAI over to Null's office? Doubtful. And NO mention of unavailable premiums or refunds for them.
I still say that this is just a direct way for Null to get paid for HIS outstanding items from previous WBAI beg-a-thons. Kind of a Ponzi scheme - needing new people to pay for older ones. Now we have the cookbooks mess up? Will Null now need even newer people to pay to send these paid for books out?
I'm reminded of this old Rick Santelli clip. I guess Friedman could be imagined as Reimers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RygWFh39CvE
"I'm done. I feel good."
SDL
I think you're right about the transportation. I just remembered Null saying that only $500 of the $2,500 goes to WBAI (and thus is tax free).
DeleteNow that I think about it, I believe the retreat money was to go directly to Null's office. I assume he took what was owed him by WBAI, has his product ready to go, but is waiting for Reimers to supply the labels and postage. No matter how one slices it, Null seems to be the numero uno benefactor here.
Yes, only $500 is tax free (since it's for the station), which means Null's retreat is a for-profit third party venture being advertised on a non-commercial station.
DeleteExactly. Null gets paid for his outstanding premiums and gets business for his retreat. WBAI is basically acting as a front. He can't lose.
SDL
'This greed, not loyalty what keeps him there. :)
DeleteI just heard Michael G. give another justification for the radio's consistently poor performance. He commented that Berthold Reimer's has no interest in "programming" (in the absence of a PD)at WBAI. That Reimer's only mantra concerning a show or premium is "does it make money". What an asinine statement to make in the midst of trying to gain new listeners or regain the ones they've already lost. Tell us something we don't know Mr. G.
ReplyDeleteWhere's the interim PD?
DeleteThe Interim PD is Jeanie Hooper. As far as I know, she hasn't disappeared, but she may be busying herself with activity that has the earmarks of a personal business venture: her dansants and annual boat ride.
DeleteThe latter has long seemed suspicious to me—as advertised on WBAI's website and air, "a part" of the proceeds will go to WBAI. This was later changed to "proceeds go to WBAI," but a percentage was never mentioned and the fact that ticket prices are only listed on Hopper's own website ($25 - $35) raises a red flag . There will also be an "open bar," so it would be interesting to see a breakdown. Ms. Hopper's "thank you gifts" also raise a flag, unless she has obtained licenses to duplicate and sell the music contained on those discs.
There is a lot going on under the WBAI counter.