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And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

You know, every so often here on the Paracast, we answer the critics.

Now, I know one particular critic who actually posted a message in iTunes

complaining that we dare to respond to critics.

Now, I don't know about you, but where is it written that we can't answer to people

who object to what we do and how we do it. What do you think,

Chris? Should we not talk about the critics? Well, I mean, come on, you know, people want to

complain or, you know, even have constructive criticism. I mean, I think it's beholden to us

to respond to it and address that. Of course, the common criticism is that we have

too many commercials, but that applies to all commercial radio shows. You know, we have a fixed

amount of commercials. It consumes about 25 or 26 percent of the content of the show.

Same is true for all commercial talk shows in the United States.

And as a matter of fact, for TV shows, which even offer more commercials. So your one-hour TV

drama takes 43 minutes. Is there any other way to work it out? I suppose, I suppose as TV and

radio mature, as radio moves more and more online, we'll find better ways,

but that's the way the system works now.

We can't say we'd like all the commercials, but about nine minutes of those commercials are our own.

What that means is if you find an announcement for product or service that we are advertising,

we'd like you to consider it because what that means is income to the show or we get to sell

some of our own stuff. So I don't think anything's wrong with that. There has been talk of a

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