The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro sits down with Bill Whittle, creator of the podcast series The Cold War: What We Saw, to talk about the conflict that shaped the world we know, and the danger of electing Bernie Sanders to the U.S. presidency.
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21 replies on “Ben Shapiro Interviews Bill Whittle about New Cold War Series”
I am not able to see this video here on this page nor at YouTube, Can you help a gal out?
But I like that Ben asks a question and lets Bill talk without interrupting every 15 seconds like many “interviewers” these days.
I can’t stand listening to Ben Shapiro because he speaks much faster than I can listen. What does he have to hide? What is it that he doesn’t want people to understand? I really don’t care what he stands for because of that because it is clear that he doesn’t care if he is understood.
I can’t listen as fast as I used to, either.
That’s the great thing about the replay button – just like a news article or book, you can listen to it again and catch anything you missed. Or you can just hit the “pause” button, back up a little and then hit “play” if you missed something.
.75 speed gets him down to about the speed anybody else speaks.
Yes but Bill’s speed is then too slow by far. As I said, if Ben doesn’t care to be clearly understood, I don’t care about what he has to say.
As I see it, someone who speaks so many words so fast is trying to put something over on his audience. He does not genuinely believe what he is saying. At least he has not thought it through carefully about how to communicate what he believes in. Then tries to get all the words out before he loses his thread. For me, Ben has lost his tread before he even started to speak.
Ben needs to acquire the fundamentals of the art of public speaking. This he has not bothered to do. Bill has and is a master at it. I care what Bill has to say even when he is wrong because he works at understanding and being understood. I have followed him since Eject Eject Eject days.
I don’t think he “needs” to, since he’s been pretty successful as is. However, I don’t care for his style and find it surprising that it has proven successful.
Go with the crowd if you like. I form my own opinions.
Oh? I would encourage people to read my comment, something you evidently didn’t trouble yourself to do, and then your reply and form an opinion.
It seems to be important that I agree with you. I don’t find it “surprising”. I find Ben’s delivery abominable, incompetent, and inadequate!
I agreed with you except in one tiny aspect, but you can’t tolerate anything but slavish concurrence with every aspect of your opinions.
You misread my point. You are welcome to your opinions as I also am, but you don’t have a right to your facts. Facts simply are. No one owns them. The fact is, I don’t have to accept your opinions as fact.
I think I have a letter-perfect read on you.
RG,
Many of us do “have a letter-perfect read on” Mr. Griffith. We’ve learned that it’s just not worth the cycles.
Wise.
Bill, for me , speaks so slowly that i am not apt to turn him on sometimes when my day is really busy because he is so interesting but i don’t have time to wait for him to get it all out. Different strokes for different folks. Attributing Fast speaking to a sinister deception motive or a lack of “care” is really unfair. Since MANY people understand perfectly what he is saying , this is obviously an individual problem. I hope you choose to try to listen faster.
I suggest this issue is much more than a matter of style and preference. It is fundamentally the willingness and ability to understand and to communicate that understanding.
Listening is an active process and not simply a tape recording of what was said. The ideas must be processed, integrated within one’s own knowledge, and judged to be worth considering or not. This takes time. To communicate one must take care of presenting the ideas coherently and in their logical sequence. All the while giving the listener time to do the work necessary to comprehend what was said.
The machine gun presentation of a word salad violates every principle of understanding and its communication. The speaker doesn’t give a damn if anyone comprehends. He just delivers his words. Such a speaker is not worth the time it takes to untangle his flood of words.
I use the CC (Closed Captions) sometimes with Ben. I bet Mark Levin was the same when he was Ben’s age and hopped up on a lot of caffeine (that’s coffee, not Leftists’ Tears in his tumbler). By the way, his target audience is much younger than us and that is good for our future as he can take apart an opponent’s fallacious arguments like a surgeon with a scalpel (or a Viking with a battle axe)!
I understand your frustration LG, especially us folks with “older” ears. HOWEVER at 76 ( in 3 Days), I find the world in such bad shape and BEN so morally strong and anchored in principles and American constitution, that I listen anyway. Because i am truly worried for my Country I persevered and what i found is the more i listened the more i was ABLE to understand. It is like having a new great grand child who is learning to talk and you just have to keep listening and eventually you get it. I found being able to pause and rewind for a repeat a really big blessing. I do this often even with most people to whom i listen. Usually in the original broadcast the rewind option is not on , but once this is in an archive you are all set. Hope you feel willing to try again Lionell
His brain works that fast. He has finished the chess game before you’ve made your opening move. Imagine how frustrated he must get.