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Crop Circle Movie TV Premiere on PBS

I’m back from Colorado and What On Earth’s TV broadcast premiere on one of their PBS stations. They flew me in to appear during pledge breaks! I had such a good time – limos chauffeuring me around, being put up at a hotel, and getting to talk crop circles with a couple of wonderful gals from the station who I think made those pledge breaks interesting. Same situation as with Rosie O’Donnell, who bought me to Chicago a few weeks ago, where I snuck in under the wire to be her very last guest on her very last OWN show. This is the life, and if anyone who has connections to any PBS stations or even tips about an edgier one than most, let me know. I’ve got my package to send. Included is this lovely email I got about how well we did in Colorado, with $5,000 being considered a good showing!

Dearest Suzanne,

Thank you so much for working with us in the acquisition of WOE and taking the time to come and visit CPT12!

You are fabulous to work with. No one has made it so easy in helping with the direction of content for the pledge breaks and the outreach and promotion! Plus you are terrific on-air. Scoring interviews on both the David Sirota Show and 9News is unprecedented. And – we had a great pledge night!

You brought something special to the Colorado Community. The crew and station – and viewers – were energized and excited and it’s great to present something important that moves people to think and discuss.

I hope to stay in touch with you and work together again in the future! We have several more airings of WOE this weekend and I’ll let you know the overall performance next week.

Sincere thanks for the work you do and I’m so happy to have had the opportunity to meet you and work with you! You and your films are inspiring.

Kindest Regards!

SB

Shari Bernson Director of Development / Executive Producer, Colorado Public Television

Shari sent me an email today. She said, “We are still elevated from WOE and having you out here. The crew was still talking about it all last week,” and she gave me a couple of supporter comments:

Jean online says, “I just wanted to commend you for broadcasting the show about Crop Circles on Thursday night. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing a TV show that was willing to look beyond traditional science explanations about what’s going on in our world. There are too many shows on other channels that completely ignore the spiritual connections throughout our planet. Kudos to Channel 12 for having the courage to show a program like that! I hope to see more shows like it in the future!”

Robert on a pledge form says, “This show is Brilliant!!!!”

THRIVE is Sizzling. Gambles Strike Back!

 

Thrive illustration

Here’s the response by Foster and Kimberly Gamble to John Robbins. It made me see stars. The chat that follows  is a rather fascinating highlighting of how people think, good and bad.

This is what I wrote in response:

I was assured, when I saw a rough cut of the film and thought some of the people in it were not going to be pleased being there – that the film espoused ideas they did not hold and there were people in the movie they would not want to be associated with – that they would be shown the movie before it was finished. However, they never were contacted. So much for any idea that disavowals were out of the blue and were a shock to the Gambles.

And, I want to call attention to something that I’ve not seen talked about. This “Movement” is based on one person’s opinions. It has come about because Foster Gamble is a very rich man who has lavished money on the movie release way out of proportion to what any other film release would have gotten. It’s like Goliath take over from David to get this little film spread around. As a filmmaker (http://CropCircleMovie.com ), I assure you this is unheard of. It is being pushed at you and punched at you by very deep pockets. It’s like the Koch Brothers funding the Republican cause.

Please, people, this is a huge strong-arm of one human being amassing a huge following. It is more like a cult than a movement. Can you imagine anyone else coming out with a movie and calling it a movement? In fact, if this little movie came and went, which would have happened without all the promotion, the participants likely would have kept quiet. But, with the incredible promotion and relentless pushing of this movie, you all just have to get how uncomfortable this is for them.

And, the Gambles’s response to John Robbins is shocking to me. What they wrote is the kind of reasoning Joe McCarthy used in his era. How can you argue with something so embedded in wrongness? For example, how can the Gambles say that someone in the John Birch Society is worth listening to? PLEASE. Hitler analogies are apt here – listen to Hitler’s opinions about poetry because they have nothing to do with his politics? Who wants to listen to anything he would say? It is scary to use this sort of logic. James has a good rap on this in the comments below.

Solutions are great, but only if we have identified the problems. THRIVE’s Solutions are to the problems that Foster identifies, not THE problems, and he is taking a huge swath of the population on a ride of his making.

This has drawn some of the big guns of THRIVE to attack me, and I have responded to them. Get on their site to read it all. And if you have a  response that you post there, please put it here, too.

I want to reiterate that I think there could be something valuable going on in this sizzling scene. This isn’t Democrats versus Republicans, where we have two opposing ideologies, but here we have those who essentially are on the same side, of moving us into a progressive, sustainable, and compassionate world, hopefully ironing out the kinks to where we will cooperate to get us there.

Update on THRIVE from Kimberly and Foster Gamble

This mailing that Kimberly and Foster Gamble just sent out about THRIVE reminds me of when I took my clothes off in an open mike situation to make a political point, and the next person who took the stage, with me naked and draped in a blanket, tried to talk about homelessness. No chance. Everyone needed to be dealing with the scene at hand.

With the backlash that’s reverberating now to THRIVE, given what John Robbins has been spearheading, I was stunned by the Gambles not relating to it in this mailing they just sent out. It is the elephant in the room. With participants in the movie distancing themselves from it, and with all of us having been educated by an extraordinarily bad rap on some of the people in the movie who haven’t distanced themselves from it, the world went on tilt when I read the upbeat report the Gambles wrote on how well THRIVE is doing, with nary a mention of any conflict.

Kimberly and Foster, I hope you will meet the challenges to your movie head-on, and that along this bumpy road, where we clash with each other, we will work through our conflicts so we can unite in our mutual aspirations to fix what needs fixing in this hurting world. We have to clear some hurdles first, and I think we might do that if you carry on in dealing what the film has kicked up.

fireplace mantle close-up fireplace mantle longshot,jpgThis is my fireplace mantle. The artwork by John Robbins, made out of seeds, is the crop circle on my DVD disk!