Torches at High Noon: A Fog Machine, Power Lines, An Angry Extra and Brigham Young’s Electric Boogaloo

[Doctor Scratch]

The Proprietor of "SeN" claims that he's gone "years" without ever mentioning this board and the commentary on it. LOL! Is he delusional? Maybe he's gone a week at the most, but the fact is that he simply lacks the willpower to ignore what's said here.

Meanwhile, I see a lot of over-exaggeration and passive-aggressive bloviating (who said anything about "embezzling"??), but there *still* has not been any denial about getting reimbursed for Interpreter-related travel expenses (including meals, lodging, etc.).

And while I'm thinking about it: How much donor funds were used to pay for Interpreter's annual party? Did the Board pay for that out of their own pockets? Or did they dip into the donor funds for their little "shindig"? I recall the President lamenting the fact that he didn't get to enjoy any of the dessert... Perhaps it goes beyond FOMO and there is an element of guilt here as well?

[I Have Questions]

The Proprietor of "SeN" claims that he's gone "years" without ever mentioning this board and the commentary on it. LOL! Is he delusional? Maybe he's gone a week at the most, but the fact is that he simply lacks the willpower to ignore what's said here.

Meanwhile, I see a lot of over-exaggeration and passive-aggressive bloviating (who said anything about "embezzling"??), but there *still* has not been any denial about getting reimbursed for Interpreter-related travel expenses (including meals, lodging, etc.).

And while I'm thinking about it: How much donor funds were used to pay for Interpreter's annual party? Did the Board pay for that out of their own pockets? Or did they dip into the donor funds for their little "shindig"? I recall the President lamenting the fact that he didn't get to enjoy any of the dessert... Perhaps it goes beyond FOMO and there is an element of guilt here as well?

He's creating a strawman by exaggerating. If someone else pays for your travel, food, and trips, you are being financially supported — whether or not it’s called a paycheck. End of. And you’re right, he’s not denied that. He will say he’s not received a dime, but he will not say that he covers all his own travel, food, hotel costs etc whilst on Interpeter business, out of his own pocket. He crafts a denial that’s partially true, and his few readers swallow it.

[Doctor Scratch]

It begins to make a lot more sense when you realize what’s up. The nonstop announcements about “new” material appearing on Interpreter are there to help ensure that the gravy train keeps rollin’ down the tracks. That “free travel fund” is going to dry up if those donor dollars don’t keep flowing in.

[Gadianton]

It begins to make a lot more sense when you realize what’s up. The nonstop announcements about “new” material appearing on Interpreter are there to help ensure that the gravy train keeps rollin’ down the tracks. That “free travel fund” is going to dry up if those donor dollars don’t keep flowing in.

What do you think an executive's daily food stipend is? Sometimes a place will do a daily fixed amount or sometimes it will be broken down into a specific amount for each of three meals plus a snack allotment. And also a lumpsum entertainment stipend for the day. I'd be curious, given your expertise here, on what numbers you'd fill in for this example plan for an Interpreter executive:

breakfast: $?
snack 1: $?
lunch: $?
snack 2: $?
Dinner: $?
snack 3: $?
snack 4: $?
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optional snack: $?
entertainment: $?

[malkie]

It begins to make a lot more sense when you realize what’s up. The nonstop announcements about “new” material appearing on Interpreter are there to help ensure that the gravy train keeps rollin’ down the tracks. That “free travel fund” is going to dry up if those donor dollars don’t keep flowing in.

What do you think an executive's daily food stipend is? Sometimes a place will do a daily fixed amount or sometimes it will be broken down into a specific amount for each of three meals plus a snack allotment. And also a lumpsum entertainment stipend for the day. I'd be curious, given your expertise here, on what numbers you'd fill in for this example plan for an Interpreter executive:

breakfast: $?
snack 1: $?
lunch: $?
snack 2: $?
Dinner: $?
snack 3: $?
snack 4: $?
-----
optional snack: $?
entertainment: $?

You missed second breakfast!

[Doctor Scratch]

It begins to make a lot more sense when you realize what’s up. The nonstop announcements about “new” material appearing on Interpreter are there to help ensure that the gravy train keeps rollin’ down the tracks. That “free travel fund” is going to dry up if those donor dollars don’t keep flowing in.

What do you think an executive's daily food stipend is? Sometimes a place will do a daily fixed amount or sometimes it will be broken down into a specific amount for each of three meals plus a snack allotment. And also a lumpsum entertainment stipend for the day. I'd be curious, given your expertise here, on what numbers you'd fill in for this example plan for an Interpreter executive:

An interesting and probative question, Dr. Robbers. I imagine a typical day’s expenditure might go as follows:

breakfast: $10.00 (McGriddle or some other junk food)
snack 1: $3:00 M&Ms
lunch: $20.00 (burger and fries from local greasy spoon)
snack 2: $3.00 donut
Dinner: $50.00 appetizer, entree, and dessert
snack 3: $3.00 Snickers bar
snack 4: $3.00 chocolate chip cookies
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optional snack: $6.00 ice cream
entertainment: $19.99 movie purchased from a streaming service

It seems highly unlikely that there is a “snack budget” for the lower-ranking Interpreter personnel. For example, it’s doubtful that the hosts of the Interpreter YouTube show get to charge donuts to the expense account.

[I Have Questions]

It begins to make a lot more sense when you realize what’s up. The nonstop announcements about “new” material appearing on Interpreter are there to help ensure that the gravy train keeps rollin’ down the tracks. That “free travel fund” is going to dry up if those donor dollars don’t keep flowing in.

You make it sound like a Ponzi scheme. Or a retirement scam to pay for trips and travel. I suppose there came a point in Bernie Madoff’s scheme where the investors (donors) started to look at the output, and realised they were being gamed. Interpreter really is about getting input (donations) rather than what returns. It just needs to give the impression of good returns to keep the input flowing.

[I Have Questions]

Today’s confession by denial from Interpreter’s head freeloader goes like this…

Our filmmakers first thought of Gregory Peck as the third of our co-hosts. They had worked with him on the PBS documentary American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith (1999). But Mr. Peck, who died in 2003, is unavailable for the foreseeable future. They then turned first to Paul Newman, who is similarly unavailable, and thereupon to Robert Redford, whose calendar was too full and who then himself became unavailable mid-way through the project. (Are you sensing a pattern here? Perhaps Brigham Young is behind their deaths, as well.) So they next considered George Clooney and Brad Pitt. But the price tag for Mr. Clooney and Mr. Pitt was too high. At that point, they turned their attention to me as the logical next step in the sequence of Peck, Newman, Redford, Clooney, and Pitt. Plainly, a reasonable extrapolation, Plus, I also had the advantage of coming at no charge. And that, I firmly believe, is how I was chosen.

Peterson may not have charged Interpreter for his time, but the cost of his travel, food, and lodgings, most certainly were. He also fails to recognise that perhaps the reason he was chosen by the filmmakers was to curry favour and to ensure they kept getting Interpreter gigs going forward despite their shoddy work. Like Gianni Infantino and Maria Corina Machado have done with Trump lately. The filmmakers want the golden goose to keep laying, because they don’t have much other work coming in.

[Gadianton]

Outrageous! 98$ for one day's food? Good thing they've found relatively low paid actors.

But yeah, I don't think a hundred a day for the top dogs but the guys struggling to do the "podcast" can't even make a donut run is fair.

[Shulem]

Today’s confession by denial from Interpreter’s head freeloader goes like this…

Our filmmakers first thought of Gregory Peck....

Peterson's big ego ("How I became a movie star") is a lifelong habit of dropping names in order to boost his own image and help make himself feel more important. That's his game and he does it to increase the value of his own persona. Perhaps he's also thinking along the lines that mentioning big movie producer names on his webpage will help increase web traffic which in turn may produce more donations for his silly religious films.

I'd love to see him make a film of Joseph and Fanny-baby (teenage slave) behind the barn making out and tearing their clothes off in the heat of passion. Or how about a show depicting the Nephite army defending the horizontal axis line of the narrow neck of land that separates the two lands, north and south? It would be amazing if Dan could walk the entire span in a single day as was the Nephite standard. Just one (1) day, no more. And then he can ride north to Cumorah where the gold plates were said to be buried and the final wars were fought.