Yeah, why talk about the actual topic at hand when yet another thread can be derailed to be about mean ol' Mike and his negative effects on delicate, sensitive Brian Wilson, who voted for Mike to have the touring rights to the Beach Boys name in the first place. Mike and his powerful stink eye can make Brian do anything.
The whole reason that this issue got brought up is because "the room" was yet again mentioned by Mike in the interview for the show being discussed... and admittedly a few people started talking about that tangentially (but not out of the blue, as you possibly imply). There's not some concerted effort to derail threads. I apologize if I contributed to "derailing" a thread, but you didn't exactly help either.