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Right Angle: Backstage (08-11-2020)

In a marathon session — exceeded in length and vapidity only by the Zoom meeting you’ve had three times this week with your boss — the men of Right Angle hatch their diabolical schemes for this week’s shows.

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Bill Whittle Now

Civil War or Peace? Trump Republican Nomination Speech May Have a Gettysburg Address

President Trump tweets that he might deliver his Republican Convention nomination address at “the Great Battlefield of Gettysburg” or from the White House. Should either site be polluted with partisan politics?

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Bill Whittle Now

Galaxy Guardian Zoe Saldana Cries Apology for Playing Blacker Singer Nina Simone…in 2016

Galaxy Guardian Zoe Saldana (who played the green-skinned Gamora) cries while offering Steven Canals’ Instagram audience a live apology for playing singer Nina Simone in a 2016 movie, because Simone was blacker than her.

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Right Angle

Beetle Eaten by Frog Survives: Is There a Way Out of 2020 for You Too?

Take a wild ride through the weirder news stories of the week with Stephen Green’s Right Angle Lightning Round (patent pending 2020), featuring Bill Whittle and Scott Ott.

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Gettysburg Rap, by Scott Ott

I don’t recall doing this, but even with the auto-tuning, it’s clearly my voice. Apparently, this ill-conceived experiment happened in 2011. It’s hip to be Scott Ott. Scott Ott · Gettysburg Address Rap [Scott Ott]

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Bill Whittle Now

COVID-19 Cancel Culture: UConn 2020 Football Season Over Now, Others to Follow

The University of Connecticut Huskies cancel the 2020 football season due to the risk of COVID-19 spread. Are the UConn Huskies just the lead dog falling in an avalanche of others to follow? Will people take the pandemic more seriously now that it hits college football? Is it just another symptom of ‘Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds’?

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Right Angle

Minneapolis Police to Locals: Do What the Thugs Tell You, Prepare to Be Robbed

Minneapolis police tell locals you should do what criminals tell you, and prepare to be robbed of your iPhone or cash. Is this new guidance from a demoralized, soon-to-be defunded force, a rhetorical tool in negotiations with local politicians who seem eager to slash budgets and take cops off the beat?

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The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 258

Recorded live before a global audience on 08/06/20.

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Right Angle

Biden Juggernaut? Rasmussen Shows Trump Up Among Likely Voters, Besting Obama

While most presidential poll stories have shown Joe Biden mounting a growing lead over Donald Trump — some say insurmountable. But Rasmussen’s latest poll of likely voters — not mere registered voters — shows Trump beating Biden, and besting Barack Obama’s numbers at the same stage of his reelection campaign.

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Bill Whittle Now

COVID-19 Class Action: Student Wants Refund, Feels Cheated by ‘Zoom Yale’

Yale University unfairly enriched itself by failing to issue a partial refund to students who ended the spring semester with online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Student Jonathan Michel feels cheated because he paid for the full Yale experience, which he didn’t get.

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Bill Whittle Now

Take Off: Jetson Law Allows Flying Cars to Use New Hampshire Roads

New Hampshire just passed the so-called Jetson Law to allow flying cars to use public roads to get to air strips for take off. Customers already place orders for several science fantasy models — the Terrafugia Transition, Samson Switchblade and PAL-V. But is the flying car a rotten idea that will never take off?

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Right Angle

Savage Inequality: Unhappy with Zoom Public Schooling, Parents Pay for Learning Pods

The rolling COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns leave some parents unhappy with their public schooling options — Zoom classrooms or sending your kid into a crowd — so they’ve decided to pay for a small-group education supplement sessions dubbed learning pods.

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Backstage Right Angle

Right Angle: Backstage (08-04-2020)

When these three titans come together in one room, the intellectual firepower is a thing to behold. This is why they’re sequestered in undisclosed locations in three states to plan this week’s episodes of Right Angle.

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Put on the Suit: Casual Culture Blamed for Men’s Clothiers Bankruptcy Wave

Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank and Brooks Brothers, join a growing wave of major retailers — specifically men’s clothiers — falling into bankruptcies, not from the COVID-19 pandemic, but due to the casual culture that’s swept American business.

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Right Angle

Resurrecting War Plan Blue: We Need New Pentagon Strategy for Major Conflict…Now!

Does the Pentagon need a new ‘War Plan Blue’ — a preparedness strategy for major conflict. marshal industry, people, and infrastructure to meet the unpredictable needs of a nation at war with China, or any other opponent. A retired Navy captain says, ‘Yes’, and so do the men of Right Angle.