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Right Angle: Backstage 03/14/21

Bill is back with many True Tales of Adventure, Scott gurgles his way to fame and fortune and Steve unveils hi encyclopedic knowledge of every movie ever made — AGAIN.

Bill is back with many True Tales of Adventure, Scott gurgles his way to fame and fortune and Steve unveils his encyclopedic knowledge of every movie ever made — AGAIN. All this and so much less on this edition of Right Angle: Backstage, made possible by you fine people!

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Gentlemen, the physics of the Pneumatic tube situation is very easily comprehended, but the variables involved would make any single answer a futile gesture. Likely each bank that has one operates at a slightly different pressure differential. For that matter, even the same bank may well operate at different negative pressures on different days or even different times of day due to changes in temperature and barometric pressure. The bottom line is that there is normally only about 14.7 psi of atmospheric pressure to work with at sea level, and since it has so far been impossible for man to pull a perfect vacuum, and very expensive in energy costs to even pull a fairly good one, it is unlikely that any of the banks are even pulling a full 7-8 psi of vacuum. So that with that said, calculating the cross-sectional area of the tube in square inches, and then multiplying by the pressure differential that bank manages to create should give you a reasonable approximation of the lift capacity of that Pneumatic system, minus whatever frictional component might come into play based on twists and turns of the tube.

Steve, I think you’re thinking of the movie The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Scott, Brendan Fraser was “blubbering” during his acceptance speech? I see what you did there.
I agree with getting outside to exercise. I love riding my mountain bike in my hilly neighborhood. I bought a spin bike for the days I can’t ride outside, but got rid of it because it was boring and I could just jump off whenever I wanted to. I need to go far from my house, then I have to keep riding if I want to get home.

As Ike & Monty finished their meeting for D-Day, Monty said, “We should do well as long as you get your men there on time.” Ike: “Don’t worry, they’ll be on schedule.” Monty: “SCHEDule? The word is SHEDULE, my boy! Where did you learn how to say SCHEDule?” Ike: “In grammer SHULE.” šŸ™‚

Scott’s bit part reminds me of our church paly when they asked me to be King Herod. I asked them, “So yo’re tyope casting?” Were they also? šŸ™‚

Bill, your comment about one commenter complaining about the Empire teaser might have been me. However, read deeper and you’ll see I’m blaming it on my poor hearing, my crappy speaker on my computer laptop, and hearing aids I had tuned to Peets coffee and not to a crappy monitor speaker. Reading even further in my short comment, you’ll see I complemented you thoroughly for the set, visuals, lighting and production.
That teaser guarantees that some of my work tokens will end up in the hands of Jeremy Boring.
And while his Razor biz launch was just ok, I am loving Jeremy’s chocolate bar effort SHE/HER (no nuts) HE/HIM (with nuts). YES!

The worst thing DW is doing is hiding Bills work on Communist and only showing it to the choir, who already agree. Good business maybe, but bad evangelist.

I agree, Henry. They have a business model that is theoretically built to sustain the business. But the meager amount that they put out to the non members seems to pull in more derision than converts.
I hope Bill gets us a discount of some type. In any event, I will join long enough to watch TCW and this new one. Then likely cancel.

“This is why you can’t have intellectuals running a government … Everything is theory to them.”

In modern times how does this apply?

Klaus Schwab and his ilk are promoting climate crisis as a means to eliminate poor people. By making things so expensive that poor people starve to death.

As Ebenezer Scrooge put it … “And thereby decrease the surplus population.”

Turns out, the richer people are, the more they care about conservation, the environment, climate, etc. The wealthier someone becomes, the more they can afford to concern themselves with things beyond everyday survival. So getting rid of the poor people who don’t care about such things is their plan.

The better way is to raise the income level of everyone on the planet, which has been happening steadily. This also gets rid of poor people by making them into wealthier people.

Klaus and his buddies want to kill off the poor to solve this “problem”. Conservatives want to raise the poor out of poverty to solve this problem.

Two means to address the same issue. One is advocated by Scrooge/Schwab types and involves killing people. The other is advocated by compassionate types and does not involve killing people.

Yet somehow the compassionate people are less ‘nice’ than the killers.

This is why you can’t have intellectuals running a government. If they kill millions and still don’t reach their goal they just shrug and say “Oops, sorry that didn’t work out the way we planned. We can fix that by killing even more people. Give us the power to do that.”

The line came to mind “a rising tide lifts all boats” and the counterpoint followed that Klaus and Scrooge would probably prefer that the boats with little holes be left to sink instead of letting the poor patch the leaks so they spend less time bailing and more time doing something really productive.

I moved to the mountains of Northeast GA and walk at lunch from the hospital where I work down to the small town of Clayton. Walking back up the small mountain/big hill where my office is perched is accelerated by unleashed dogs barking at my heels. I don’t know if it’s helping my general health, but my hips are killing me.

Nelson – Only Apollo: What We Saw was video. The others were audio only until the recent re-recording of The Cold War: What We Saw which I guess is due out soon.
Forgotten Heroes was audio only just like TCW.

I continue to be impressed with how DW is going about capturing and maintaining an audience. Jordan Peterson’s content is insanely prolific (I overdosed, currently using it to help me go to sleep) and Prager’s Master’s Series is some of the best stuff on the Web related to politics/western civilization/epistemology.
Including our hero BW is icing on the cake.

Me too with the “impressed with how DW is going about …” thing and not just as it regards capturing and maintaining an audience.

It can reasonably be argued that The Daily Wire has successfully done more to advance and support Conservative causes with real world impacts than the modern Republican Party. With exceptions like Ron Desantis et. al.

It was the news media arm of DW that broke the story that Glenn Youngkin’s team used to put a Republican in the Governor’s office in VA for the first time in decades. Matt Walsh’s efforts were also consequential. Snatching a Blue State from the Left is no small feat.

It’s The Daily Wire that put Matt Walsh’s “What is a Woman” in the public eye.

The Daily Wire has successfully tackled and stopped or stunned the child-disfigurement-for-fun-and-profit operations of several large hospitals.

The Daily Wire has led the charge on legislation that abolishes that sort of practice in several states too.

All this has had the effect of putting those and other Conservative causes in the public spotlight and shining a sickly green light on the despicable practices of the Left. Which forwards our argument against those practices and casts the Left as the villian in sheep’s clothing that it actually is.

The Daily Wire has been a net win for quite a while now.

This is a prime example of why it’s a bad idea to mirror the Left in eating our own. Some Conservatives might be tempted to slag on The Daily Wire or its public facing members for various reasons.

If you look hard enough there are always reasons to be found. Nobody’s perfect and the right of the individual to speak his mind is foundational to Conservative principles. That means not every other Conservative is going to agree with some people who call themselves Conservative.

If you can’t find reasons to attack our Conservative brothers you can always make them up. Like Steven Crowder demonstrated so aptly.

DW does some very good things. I just wish they would put a little more out for the unwashed (nonpaying) folks.
I will say that I do miss Whittle and Klavan together. Their discussions were generally entertaining and informative.

Agree about wishing The Daily Wire would put out more content for people who don’t have a membership. The membership is worth the cost because they have a ton of good stuff behind their paywall but … I can only afford one political subscription and this is it.

I had to think long and hard before subscribing to a site and I picked Bill Whittle so I’m not going anywhere. Over the last few years this has come to feel like my political ‘home’ and despite what people think about my posts … This is the one place I can say pretty much anything I want to exactly the way I want to.

That said, later in the year my income is going to increase a little so if I do subscribe elsewhere in addition to here it will be The Daily Wire.

I think most of what The Daily Wire releases to the non-paying general public is aimed at enticing people to buy a membership more than it is to get the Conservative message out and … That’s fine with me. I don’t mind because I know that people have to eat and pay their mortgages.

The Daily Wire is presenting a serious challenge to established media outlets and that can only work to our favor. I think there’s a huge, un-tapped demographic of Americans that span the gamut of Conservative thought and something like The Daily Wire works to mobilize that part of the American electorate. There are tons of little fish of dubious veracity so we need a whale like The Daily Wire to mainstream general Conservatism.

I miss Klavan and Whittle too, that’s what first got me started with Bill Whittle. Andrew Klavan has his show that posts on Friday PM and I never miss watching it sometime over the weekend. But that’s not the same as seeing the two of them work off of each other, that was really, really good.

Anytime I see someone who claims to be a Conservative seriously attacking The Daily Wire or any of the talking heads thereon I cringe a bit. There’s no one I agree with 100% on every topic but I want to win this nation back again. Chopping up our allies is not the way that’s going to get done.

Project Veritas was invaluable the past decade, too. Maybe DW can amalgamate O’Keefe as well.

Keith, looks like James launched his new OMG yesterday. I did a blog post on BW as soon as I saw it. “He’s baaack” with a link to his launch vid. O’keefe Media Group. O.M.G. For a supposed tyrant, he’s got a sense of humor.

Oh, hey, in case you didn’t know, Locals could host this, member’s only content…it is Rumble too after all. That’s where I’ll be watching LwC’s Mug Club. So I guess that’s Rumble’s answer to private channels. IDK the details…but just a thought.

I can see Musk’s The Boring Company actually making tunnels for some reason. But I’ really waiting for my own personal pneumatic tube transport system. We need to know if Hyperlink is gonna be a thing, Elon. ( I know you’re a member here )

When it comes to being obsessed with figuring out how things work…you won’t find anyone more driven to obsession in their endeavor than me. Which is why I said it…I heard it often enough…lol.

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