Well a couple things.
a. Tracy is anything but traditional. He's wasted most of his life with this UFO nonsense, and honestly, it's probably doomed his career. He's also a dinosaur. He barely has internet where he lives. In many, many ways he's off the grid. He rescues doggies and Thank God for he and his wife on that. I highly doubt he'd ever listened to Cardinal Sin before going on there, and likely the same for many of his appearances. Recall he used to do several UFO-heavy radio shows which were hosted and frequented by many outright lunatics.
b. Tracy is also a very kind man, but he's also fiercely libertarian and if you were to tell him NOT to talk on a person's show, he would do it for sure. It's not like Gil is a criminal, he's also a nice man (from my interactions) just a tad too backwards. And guess what? They're all entitled to be. This attitude that anyone who doesn't fall in line with the newest cultural "norms" or whatever should get out of the way and walk the plank is so blatantly un-American and anti-Democratic. We must educate, not eradicate.
c. Tracy has ZERO I mean ZERO technological capabilities. It was often a miracle he joined the youtube channel at all, and frankly I think he finally gave up on it altogether.
d. Tracy is a devotee of The Prisoner and Patrick McGoohan, and it has always showed. That was why he agreed to join that channel, and again, the other folks who were in the chat or on the line like that British guy, were all really well read and very good at banter.
Now as for this "woke" thing, well again you said it, what does woke actually mean?? That's the problem. The original intent of wokeness I can guarantee you Tracy is 1000% behind. That's back when it was focused on inequalities. However, that movement has been co-opted and basically overtaken by those demanding not even asking, commanding equity.
Equity is not the same as Equality, not in the least. Equity is something that is completely at odds with human nature. It's what Gene Roddenberry foolishly believed humanity could achieve. Not happening, can't happen, it's simply not in our DNA, our biology. There must be winners and losers, that is the circle of life. That is evolution, that is biology. If you go back to Tracy's days as Sliders EP, you'll see this plain as day. In fact, there is a big demarcation between Tracy's time and that of Black or Dial or Damron when the show went to Sci-Fi.
When Tracy ran things, the Sliders often landed in a world that was mostly like our own. What was different? Usually each world was on the surface BETTER than ours, but when you looked deeper, you went, wait a minute, in order to achieve this utopia, they gave something up. They gave up their freedom, individualism, their soul. Sometimes the Sliders supplied a pep talk or tried to gum up the works. Usually they ran for their lives! If you skip the S3 movie of the week garbage, when the show landed on Sci-Fi those EP's reverted to run of the mill science fiction. The worlds were usually over the top characterizations. The Sliders were immediately in deep doo-doo, or the world was so screwed up they had little to do. Again, Torme's thinking was deep, it was "cerebral" as FOX put it, it was like McGoohan's in The Prisoner.
What am I getting at? This is why Sliders was so brilliant, because Tracy on the surface had you see one thing, but deep down there was really something off there, something sinister perhaps. For him, Sliding was as much of a mind fuck as anything. That's again what made Rembrandt going to a shrink and calling the episode Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome absolutely brilliant. Remmy's mind was shot, he lost semblance of reality. The Prisoner strikes again. Again, that's why Tracy went on that YouTube channel. Yes I would have loved to hear him with Rewatch, but he's forgotten so much of the details it would have been painful. Instead, to hear how his ideas were morphed by what he saw on The Prisoner was really something, I'm so glad to have been a part of that. When Tracy means it won't be "woke" I still believe he means you a) would never shut off a potential story in order to be unnecessarily PC, and b) he's not hiring people simply to fill quotas and have equity.
