I was interviewed yesterday on TSF which is a well known portuguese radio broadcasting nationally on our small (11 million inhabitants) country. The two major topics were the trip do Mozambique last year and orgonite
It went rather well since not too many questions I begun answering with a “hummm”. The reporter was neutral and did nothing but ask questions – the few “skeptic” questions were actually quite good and helped clear information out to the people.
There was one moment when he asks me if after such an experience (getting arrested, etc) I would go and do gifting again… I had to laugh a bit (over my own “mischiveousness”, not his question) and told him I had done precisely that in the neighbourhood before coming in for the interview.
Stupidly I did not bring the SP with me but at least some TBs are resting in the river.
The public reception was fantastic since I got around 10 orders in 24 hours which is a 500% increase in sales over the last 3 weeks, and they keep coming!
Excellent work, Carlos! It looks like you’re going to do well with your website, too.
We’re all pretty fortunate to get into this business while it’s still small. I hesitate to speculate on how big the orgonite industry will be in ten more years but if we each keep our heads down and stay focused on quality and keeping our customers happy I think we’ll get a larger and larger share of this growing market.
I’ll be heartbroken if any of us will not get the credit we’ve been earning and Carlos is one of the few who have genuinely sacrificed for this effort so I especially want him to prosper in coming years.
The only publicity I got personally out of the debacle in Mozambique was a short quote in an English-language newspaper in the United Arab Emirates that ‘The only thing we [gifters] might ever be guilty of is littering’ . There’s no such thing as bad publicity for us, though. Anything that might be said in the corporate media about orgonite or any of us only sparks people’s curiosity enough for them to come check out oir websites and/or to email us This happy development is one of the benefits of refusing to organize.
I think the only detractor who is too boneheaded to have figured that out, by now, is DeMento, who actually tried to get the court in Mozambique to sentence our guys. What a schmuck.
Radio interviews are my favorite media access. I once did an interview that was evidently supposed to have been a CIA hatchet job but even that one was productive and positive. I wasn’t invited back
~Don
I think Portugal has a larger influence on the world than the eleven million inhabitants realize–Brazil is slowly turning into an economic superpower, for instance. My future in-laws are Portugese, too, so I care a lot about what happens there
The pics didn’t show up for me, Carlos. They need to be in the form of a URL. My intrepid daughter posts photos for me because of my incomputeracy (kind of like illiteracy).
P.S. You did get mentioned a couple times in that interview, Don. Most notably in connection with the famous “The Adventures of Don and Carol Croft” which I duly characterized as being absolutely surreal but somehow speaking to the heart.
