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Right Angle: Backstage (02-01-2022)

Steve lets the dogs out, and our Producers earn their accolades.

Right Angle: Backstage (02-01-2022)

Steve lets the dogs out, and our Producers earn their accolades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x54em11z7Y

36 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (02-01-2022)”

the index finger to the thumb is the sign language symbol for the letter O and the other 3 fingers are for the letter K so by doing both in sign language it means OKAY!!!

The Constitution should make all embassies staffed, including the ambassadors because those positions are being used to give favors, by Marines of E-4 rank or LESS to prevent them from becoming a problem.

Sorry guys. I got impatient for you to put the video on the screen. So I paused your show and went over to SpaceX to watch their video. It was much better to see it than to hear it. Looking forward to a Right Angle / Virtue Signal binge tomorrow.

You want high production values but you have to gear the production to internet optimization. Keep working on it, you’ll get it. I have faith in you guys.

For example, if you waste 1 minute per episode on glitz and shitz and you have 10,000 views, that’s 167 man-hours of eyeball time per episode you wasted on not getting your message across.

You can do that on broadcast TV because the audience is largely “captive” and you need the padding to fill out the time slot and keep costs down. A canned intro is, well, canned. It costs almost nothing to air that at the beginning of the episode. (I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to sit through the canned intro of the original “Lost in Space” waiting for the show to start. It’s the same for every episode in the season and conveys no new information at all.)

Even in modern broadcast TV and internet streaming the producers are countering this by rolling the credits while the show starts. In a modern show you get the show while credits roll in a transparent overlay.

Whereas an internet cast is just the opposite. The time it takes to get the point across is all you have and you need to use it to the best advantage possible. Any time you bore your audience is time lost to no good gain.

I think it is actually “02-01-2022|”. That is a vertical bar, which is used as the “Unix pipe” character. Since it has nothing to its right, it indicates that it’s feeding its output into … the ether? … the future? … ???
Sorry … geek humor.

Scott, you mentioned that past grades cannot be changed. There is an amusing story out of Notre Dame. Emil T. Hoffman, a professor of chemistry, had given Eric Wieschaus (a 1995 Nobel Prize winner) Bs in chemistry when Eric attended Notre Dame. In the face of Eric’s Nobel Price, Emil went to the registrar and filled out the forms to have Eric’s grade changed from a B to an A. Eric claims that he keeps the registrar’s document on display in his Princeton University office to explain to his students what it takes to get an A in chemistry at Notre Dame.

Scott – I know you don’t read SF as a genre, but there is a story called “The Man Who Sold the Moon” that you really must read in conjunction with Bill’s episode. Ask Steve G, he will back me up. As part of their marketing campaign they break out an old song with the lyrics, “The Moon belongs to everyone, the best things in life are free”. Which I think was recorded by Sinatra among others. Song was written in the 1920’s though.
The main character of the story is DD Harriman. You have heard many of us refer to Elon Musk as DD Harriman, and you’d see why.

It’s not really a prejudice against sci-fi. When it comes to fiction, I paraphrase Garrison Keillor: “I’m about as well read as the average bus driver.” (a profession in which I have actually served)

I understand, Scott. Do think you’d like the ones I have sent you in the past. They are SF only due to the authors and settings. They are really people stories. Though just not real people.

Honestly, the last time I recall reading fiction of any kind was The Count of Monte Cristo, which I read while on a cruise with my lovely bride about seven years ago. We have not been on a cruise since. We’re overdue.

So many books, so little time. I’m rereading some classics I read in middle & high school. Boy, was I dumb. Crime and Punishment. Persuasion. A Tale of Two Cities. Fahrenheit 451. The Grapes of Wrath. Darkness at Noon. I am struggling to find current fiction that comes close to these titles. Good fiction is a mirror of the times, and I lament the subtle insertion of “correct thought” into serious fiction.

Beside my recent post…I try to alternate reading nonfiction and fiction. I am about the tackle The Gulag Archipelago. I think one needs to read about evil to understand it. And I am beginning to see a lot of evil factions in the world.

Evil often takes the same basic form … But with a new hairdo.

That’s why it’s important to understand the mechanisms of evil so as to be able to recognize them when they show up in a new suit of clothes.

That sort of thing used to be taught in our schools and universities. I remember instructors and teachers lecturing on the evils of Communism. Not just “Oh, it’s another form of government.” or “It will work if ever it can be implemented correctly.” but “It’s evil and here’s why.”

It’s the same evil today as it was back then. Evil has not changed except cosmetically.

This is one of the things that as a Conservative I find so frustrating. I’ve read about evil in both fiction and non-fiction. I learned about evil in school and in church. I know my enemy when I see him. It’s just damnable hard to get that across to people who are under the influence of evil.

He mentioned it once in the past, that he wears the same shirt for about an hour each day, and just leaves it on a hanger by his computer, just for the Backstages.

Click-bait — It could have been after the last backstage, where you discussed the click-bait openings — but one of the recent shows had Bill saying something about kindergartners (grade schoolers?) practicing cannibalism. I thought that a great click-bait line. “Bill Whittle claims students practicing cannibalism (without evidence).

I like the idea for the new virtue signal opening. Keep up the great work guys!
Edit: Also I hope Scott keeps reading the comments, I like his responses.

So, recapping:
Scott is addicted to. . .
1- reading the comments
2 – SpaceX launches
3 – reading historical books (or listening to)
4 – walking
Hmmm – quite the addictive personality, Mr. Ott. What else ya got? I have just the one, but mine is likely more destructive than all of yours. Though, maybe not, reading the comments on YT can’t be good for one’s soul. Whisky is probably better for the digestion. 😉

Stay on topic, stay on topic… Good mix between Space ownership, run away thievery and the Constitution and even Canadian Truckers it should be an exciting week.

I think the joy of the backstage is that it can fly wildly off topic but still eventually get to the show topics.

I love these backstage shows. If there were no other reason to subscribe, and there is, then the Backstage shows would be enough to get my money of themselves.

That is in fact part of the reason I subscribed in the first place. I knew I was missing out on something.

Of course your “[s]tay on topic, stay on topic…” comment just cause me to hear those words in my head using the voice of that Rebel X-Wing fighter pilot in the original Star Wars movie:

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