I'm not going to get into the whole thing, but essentially:
1) At I-Con last weekend, at the very end of a very interesting, enlightening panel on the State of the Industry of Gaming, which included only the 4 of us (Me, Josh, Zeke, and Robert Bohl) led by Jamie Chambers and Cam Banks, Josh said some mean comments. Later that night, as we were all packing up to go, he said a couple of other inappropriate things to Jamie.
2) Cam is friends with Fred Hicks, talked to his friend, and like a game of telephone, some details were left out and others were misconstrued.
3) Fred twittered that we should all leave podcasting and the gaming hobby for ever and refused to see any other side than what he thought was correct.
Some of the details have me frustrated, but what it came down to is that Josh has finally realized that his approach, while 90% on target and acceptable, is 10% of the time, not.
We're going to work on actually, really, fine tuning a bit. The same night at I-Con we presented a panel on the 7 Words You Can't Say While Gaming. We are the ones pushing for not kicking people out and improving communication. That is what we're passionate about. We want to focus on these things and lessen the negativity that is occassionally there as well.
So step 1 was an apology on Josh's part. The rest is effort, applied by the 3 of us, and hopefully will only be noticeable in that the rest of our message is louder and less clouded by the overly negative.