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Are You Ready to Rumble? Testing Free-Speech Social Video Platform

Are you ready to Rumble. Bill's first Rumble video

As we mentioned in a recent episode, we’re beginning to move some of our content to platforms more attuned to our free-speech principles. This will take a while, and involve significantly more work.

As a tentative first step, we just created a channel on Rumble and have posted the latest Firewall episode (American Pravda: Part One). This is a shakedown cruise, and we anticipate difficulties which we shall overcome with our usual aplomb, and relentless fiddling.

Here’s the link to the BillWhittle channel on Rumble, to which you may subscribe, followed by the actual Rumble-embedded video.

33 replies on “Are You Ready to Rumble? Testing Free-Speech Social Video Platform”

Thanks for link. How do I see anything other than Bill? Does it cost $$ to become a member? Thanks for your time!

There are membership options but one of them is free. I don’t think you miss anything by not paying.

Like YouTube, Rumble has a general main page and a “my subscriptions” (or something) page. The main page is what you see by default and the subscriptions page option is on the top-left menu.

I always keep a browser tab open to the subscriptions page (on both YT and Rumble). If I don’t, I can get caught up and waste hours watching random stuff.

Thanks, Michael. Good suggestion about keeping a browser tab open. I know just what you mean about wasting hours watching random ‘stuff’. Much appreciated 🙂

I was able to watch (didn’t subscribe, I’ll leave my comments here, where I know how secure they are). But then, I never subscribed to YouTube, either.
Can you imbed the Rumble video in your postings here?
:-b

The “embed in post” thingie only works for YouTube for now. The best you can do is include a link to the Rumble address for the video you want.

(Yes, “thingie” is the technical term.)

Grace, the video above is embedded from Rumble, not YouTube. We’ll probably keep embedding from YT until we get our sea legs with Rumble.

Comments here are as secure as Bill’s vetting process for new members. I don’t know about you but when I joined I wasn’t asked anything that would have revealed that I’m a subversive, secret Monkees fan.

Musically, he was mine too. Acting-wise, on the show, it was Davey. Close call all around, though.

Well….in the sprit of THE GREAT RESET that is trying to be accomplished by the progressives….we need a change-reset to the membership process. Everyone must record themselves reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. The ones who don’t burst into flames will be able to upload their pledge video. Bona Fides.

That reminds me of something that happened with a former girlfriend of mine. The story ends with a saucy innuendo, so if you don’t like that sort of thing, don’t read past here.

[spoiler title=”The Story”]One morning, she was having trouble getting lotion out of a bottle, the kind with a pump that you press at the top to make a round plunger push up from the bottom to dispense the stuff. She gave it to me to try.

I tried pushing up from the bottom and, all of a sudden, the plunger tipped to one side and lotion exploded out of the other side, spraying all over me.

I looked at her and deadpanned, “Is that what it’s like?”

Neither of us could stop laughing for a full ten minutes.[/spoiler]

No way in he!! I’m going to comment on that historical remembrance and have it show up on the front page of BW….oops!

OK, I will give it a test run. But if you insist on using words like “aplomb” I am going to need a better dictionary. Engineers don’t use fancy words. 😉

Those are not fancy words, they are just our language. Not our fault that some people don’t speak tech. 😉

I resent that a lot! I’m a toolmaker that has to build what you engineers design and have worked closely with them. Remember, ignorance is curable, stupid is forever! If you are talking IT, I’ll let it go.Enough said. Peace.

As a toolmaker you undoubtedly speak the language. I have met plenty of people over the decades with “degrees” who say the words but don’t really understand them. Best designer that ever worked for me could take a hand sketch and the drawing of the part and create exactly the tool or fixture I wanted in short order. Then go and machine it.

THAT’S the mark of a good toolmaker as opposed to a machinist. The ability to sketch a concept and create a hard part from scratch in the material necessary for the function. My plant production engineer lent me a book on kinematics which I devoured and it helped me immensely in my career!

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