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Right Angle: Backstage (03-23-2021)

This Right Angle Backstage meeting reeks of nostalgia. Enjoy the aroma.

Right Angle: Backstage (03-23-2021)

This Right Angle Backstage meeting reeks of nostalgia. Enjoy the aroma. Thank you to our Members for making this possible.

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A friend told me after the devastating election “results” to turn my back on all the bull#hit! Look to your circle and take comfort in that group. Your God, your family and the community you live in. Ignore a bit the crap the idiots in Washington are doing because it can all be undone. Keep a distant eye on the things so you can be aware, but do not focus on them. If you listen to garbage all day that will drive you crazy! There are far more good people in the world than the evil ones, although on the news all you hear is the bad. Love you guys to pieces! Keep up the good work.

This is the first internet comment I’ve ever felt compelled to make; wonder bread makes wonderful less than lethal wrist rocket ammo when rolled into a tight ball, it should never be ingested.

Gents, I’d love to push back on the “progressives” who tell me that Socialism has never really been tried. In the sense they mean, neither has true capitalism, and it has a much better track record and far fewer dead bodies.

I have been experiencing that deep sadness when I read my morning paper… or articles I have been sent regarding the Biden decisions that affect my part of the world… I think it is Obama reflux… which is bad for your vocal chords, by the way… or simply a visceral reaction to lies… so thanks for slogging through the dreck that passes for news…
I melt that Skippy superchunk on my toast… and it’s awesome with chocolate milk… but I can do without the jam… (or the wonder bread… challah toast is the way to go…
I was too engrossed to keep on commenting…
but really want to thank you… you guys and a few others are real rays of sanity and just plain talk and well worth the subscription…

This may be difficult but maybe dedicate a week’s worth of RA’s to only “positive” topics once a month. Or rotate each week who is required to provide the uplifting topic for the week….just a thought.

I have been feeling the same way Bill. I loved watching your brain sorting thru all the dregs to come up with a good MB2A show. I live in Canada. We have a similar cr*p show here as well. Out “Demos” are the Liberals. Funny that neither of their names truly describes their actual political leanings. And both of these parties are trying to turn North America into the United Socialist States of North America. Nothing seems to be able to stop them. I am so sick of masks, firearms attacks against legal firearms owners, CCP virus, and all of the newspeak. I actually had my boys read 1984 just so they could see why I was so unhappy with the world. CCP virus stopped me from being with my Mom when she passed, I had not seen her since September. It is one cr*ppy thing after another. Just tired. And sleep doesn’t seem to help. I should have waited until 23 mins. Those stories take me back to my school days in the 60’s. Love those stories.

Maybe you guys–and we–need a week of just fun stuff from you guys. Might give us a little perspective and joy. I am not one to ignore the messes, but sometimes we have to step back and enjoy each other. And then come back to the things that we need to face. It would be kind of like a week of Steve’s weekend. A lot of what I so enjoy on the weekly show is you guys having fun with each other. A week of that would be great!

I stopped reading articles that I knew would make me angry, and I quit FB because it seemed there were more and more posts that made me unhappy. Another reason I quit FB is because I was tired of it being the sole source of information about friends and family. I figured if that was the only way to hear about something, then I didn’t need to know it. FB makes us too lazy to make phone calls or write letters.

Doesn’t sound like you need more cowbell. More getaways with your beautiful wife? More out in nature events like a visit to fishing village Morro Bay on the coast where there’s fresh fish dinners, salt sea air and long walks on the beach? I love that place.

I posted this in the Q’s for TSL, but it’s way more appropriate here,
Bill:
Everything you do on BWDC has You in it. With 24 hours in a day, there is not enough time for you to get everything done you want to do.
Consider letting Zo, Steve and Scott do a few right angles to give you and your voice a break.
The only really good thing (besides Afterburners) about PJTV was that you did have a
“Freedom’s Charter”, a “Hair of the Dog” and “Week in Blogs” and “ZoNation”…that really spread the load on some guy named Bill.
I know that there was an entire(probably highly) PAID production team at the old PJ, but still, you guys are producing really adequate production quality R/A’s and still snappy looking firewalls, obviously on a tight budget.  
Can you explain why you wouldn’t be able to add more Steve, Scott and Zo shows independently of having you to yap it up with them?
If it’s lack of money to pay them, how much extra do you need? Transparency is good and in your favor on this topic.
Dude, we love you. But is it time to let the other 3 shine and or carry some more load so YOU can work more on your CGI and Screenplay (and pitching, selling, producing, etc that goes along with it?) 
(I still want to see your story of the Wrench, the Old man and the superbowl broadcast hijacking come to life.)
And watching you 3 smile about PBJ sandwiches and too sweet lemonade was priceless and certainly gave me hope.

Bill you need to pull a Dave Rubin and take month off, no news, no cell phones, not working on anything to do with the news cycle, Crowder does the same in January. Lock your cell phone in a safe and do not let anyone talk about the news to you, take a Vacation to Florida so you can be outside without seeing Karens in masks.
I suggest that maybe locking yourself in a room and working on The Colonies might be enough of a vacation, but you really should get away from everything if at all possible. Before you object that the audience needs to have a constant stream of content, that means your are just arguing that we all need to be just as deep into this swamp of despair as deep as you are. We all need a break from this crap, but you need it for you health brother. Dave Rubin has never lost subscribers for taking a month off, so do not worry about it. Plus you can have Scott do a Bill Whittle Now again with you when you come back, and we can watch an entire month’s worth of insanity hit someone all at once. Those are my favorite Dave Rubin videos of the year. 
I agree with Tim Piumarta above that the other 3 guys you make videos with should take a larger role in the schedule, independent from you. If you do not currently have a member of your team that can edit and make the final call on content and production for the site other than yourself then you need to hire someone that you can trust to do those things, so the weight of responsibility can be more evenly distributed.
Take a vacation from California, and from the news, do not let yourself be taken out like Andrew, we needed Andrew, we still need him, and we need you. 

Bill, as I heard your initial comments, it was as if you were reading the script I wrote. I’ve thought all the words you said out loud, but endured those thoughts silently, with heartache. I no longer recognize the citizen I’ve become–cynical, disgusted, and utterly distrustful of any American institution/corporation/government body.
Thank you for expressing aloud what I also need to deal with, before bitterness and inaction takes root in my soul.
I want to love and respect our American experiment again. The programs on BillWhittle.com are essential guides out of this dark tunnel. Much gratitude to you and your fellow co-hosts.

This is such a great episode. I’d love it if we got to listen to a full 45 minutes of the guys talking about the cool stuff from childhood. I find that when I’m with my kids (Gen X’rs) that their memories center around similar things, for all their current sophistication in the modern world. They talk about things like the time they learned to ‘nuke’ hotdogs in the microwave for the first time and were shocked and amazed when the sausages exploded and shredded their ends. And of course, they’ve continued to make them that way to this day.
I’ve started being very selective in the news outlets that I’ll plug in to. No matter what the topic, it’s the same near-hysterical tone of voice and the same furrowed brow, mixed with the snide and condescending. I’m angry within the first 30 seconds. Even on Fox News, they stick to the same talking points, the same areas of concern. The same stuff, day after monotonous day. So I quit watching for the most part. I can pick up on what’s happening on this website, maybe PJ Media or Daily Wire or Steynonline or The Rubin Report.
When I was a kid in the 60’s, we watched about 3 news shows a day. There was a 15 minute news break right after lunch in between the soap operas my mom watched, a half hour news show in the evening before the first sitcom or drama came on, and a half hour of news after primetime, well past my bedtime. They always saved the blood and gore for the local late night news shows. I remember being shocked one night when I woke up sick and my dad had me sit by him while I was waiting for my mom to put me back to bed. The stories were on murder, and fairly explicit. Nothing like that showed up in the early evening, during what was probably seen as Family Hour. The news of the war did start to creep in late in the 60’s, but for the most part news was about foreign affairs, maybe financial news, or some trip the President was taking. Now, it’s horror and outrage and human degradation, 24/7. And always the same snide and ignorant commentary mixed in. For all that this is a great age to live in, the Left has built themselves quite a little Medieval world of superstition, prejudice and ignorance, and they seem determined to drag all of us back to the Dark Ages. No thanks!

TV got so boring and diverse that I pulled the plug. I was spending $150 a month for 250 channels of Dish and not watching anything so I canceled my subscription. They offered me 13 channels for $20 a month and I said no. My son now uses my 40″ flatscreen to play video games. If I really need TV, I can get 5 channels of local on-air with a pair of rabbit ears.

My dad had a thing about Wonder Bread. He didn’t want bread that you could ball up hard enough to blacken someone’s eye with! I used it for catfish bait.
He also had a thing for peanut butter and sliced tomato sandwiches!

Bill, Steve, and Scott . . . One of the best “reset” tools for me is stand up COMEDY! Not the new stuff that isn’t funny.
I’m talking Kings of Comedy (Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, Bernie Mac), Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Robin Williams, Kat Williams, Dennis Miller (cerebral comedy), Richard Pryor, and others in those eras.
Yeah, some of it is raw with strong language, but it makes you laugh because you can relate. Back when comedy was funny and not PC.

Good list. I would add George Carlin and going back a little further, Buddy Hackett and Don Rickles. For less “edgy” check out some Bob Newhart routines.

Yep! Rodney Dangerfield, Sam Kinison, & Bobcat Goldthwait as well.
For me, Carlin was more a reality check with a funny twist.
Very few females did I find funny back in the day. Gilda Radner for skit comedy, Joan Rivers for crassness, and Margaret Cho in her earlier days.
Yep, fond memories.

Sadly every single one of those listed would be cancelled today. Sad sad times..as Bill has noted.

Yes, it’s sad. I’ve noticed a lot of comedians became haters on talk shows over the years. I used to love Whoopi, but she seems about as racist as they come now. 🙁

Bill, talk to Glenn Beck. He had the same thing go wrong with his voice. At that time he was doing 3 hours a day on radio and a couple of hours on TV. That’s when he got some help on his TV shows.

BOOM! Done…David wins today. We can all log off now and go to our regular lives. Well played Sir!

When the caravans have been released into the heartland and the new congress delegation from Puerto Rico, the former District of Columbia, (and, who knows, maybe Guam?), have been sworn in, wait for the voicemail prompt: “for English, press eleven.”

I got really sad driving home from work the other day seeing all the sheep driving alone in their cars or walking outdoors wearing masks. They don’t understand the science and are just living in fear. These used to be Americans, land of the free, home of the brave. Now they’re sheep, cowering behind their masks.

I like chunky but I’m fine w/ creamy too. However, I’m the one who buys the groceries in this house. So chunky it is. I’m currently fond of peanut butter and honey sammaches

In the NYC tri-state area in which I grew up, the tag line for the radio station that was all news was this:
W-I-N-S : You give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world. (1010am for those interested) So in your half hour commute, you would hear the whole thing.
Now, we hear slightly different versions of those 22 minutes over and over again as if it is new, News.

This would have been the mid-70s through the early 80s. I can still hear the guy’s voice.

Bill – in February my wife and turned off the news for an entire week. We realized what you have that we were being bombarded with “everything is the worst” and it comes all day. So we shut it off for a week, read for pleasure, went for walks with each other. It made a huge difference. As Stephen Covey would note, we sharpened the saw.
This past week, as I found myself spiraling, so I turned off the news and I turned on a podcast that I found very enjoyable. It was called Apollo: What we Saw. It is really quite good, and made me remember what we were and can be again.

I feel exactly how @Bill described. Except having less optimism for the long run.

However just jumped into my mind a short story I read long time ago — Four in one by Damon Knight.

I agree w/ Steve. Need that light at the end of the tunnel. Even if its just something simple and personal. I’ve noticed I’m constantly tired w/o any motivation and I believe its cause I have nothing to look forward to. It’s just the same thing day in and day out, over and over.

Between the size of the new campus I’m on (it’s a repurposed mall) and the stupid Covid procedures we have to follow on campus (we’re only allowed to enter through one door and only exit through another door), I’m getting A LOT of walking done. Even more if I have to deal w/ the student who occasionally are allowed on campus.

I was clicking and refreshing, wondering where the new Backstage was. And I kept doing that until I realized it was Tuesday morning. I tried refreshing a few more times till I finally gave up.

I did that last week. I was so certain that it was wednesday but it was Tuesday. I felt like a progressive, so certain about things that are wrong.

Bill, as to your depression in re. reality today; you, me , and I suspect many others: it’s time to get out and meet people again. In lieu of some of your scripted podcasts maybe post once a week edits of Q&A sessions with strangers or speech attendees. It should keep you fresh and get you out of your funk.
One of the most horrific consequences of the Chinese Virus and its “management” is how totally a-human the response has been. If those who know better than we do wanted to destroy society they couldn’t have created a more perfect system of dehumanization. Humans are social animals, we need to see, touch, and be with others. Masks, social distancing, and the like make this impossible unless one decides that it isn’t impossible to be human. I used to wear a mask and conform as much as I could out of sheer courtesy; now I do so less and less.
Go out and about in our great country, give speeches to groups, talk to members of the audience, ask and answer questions. You are good at it and you enjoy it. We need your voice out there other than on podcasts.
We all need to throw off our shackles and live as free people live. The authorities aren’t going to let us know when we can do so, we must do it ourselves and sooner rather than later.
We are all suffering from cabin fever and the only way to break the fever is to get out of our cabins, both real and illusionary.
Good luck! You are too important to lose.

This is the best medicine. I chose someplace where there is an interest in something besides politics. I volunteer at a used book store. I invite you to spend a day at the cash register in a moderate size small town in AZ. to see and enjoy the people who buy the books. We are maskless, although those who wish to wear masks can do so. Maybe find something like this where you live (Or don’t live) which involves your interest in space and the rocket science or something completely new.. You are a needed resource to all of us who are agonizing over what’s happening to our America. When I am starting to lose hope, I remember a quote from Gandhi—-“There is a way out of hell.” That adds to my belief that God is in control and to remember to daily affirm it.

Just as a suggestion, but Bill, perhaps for your ‘backwashing the filter’ you could take a literal look back. Find some historical moments that show what America is, what America stands for, and how Americans act, and talk about those. Doesn’t have to be big American Heroes either, although that could be part of it, but like when neighbors pull together after a disaster or people celebrating Independence Day or any other typically and quintessentially American moment, ideal or value. It might be what you need to get the gunk out of your system and feel cleansed.
Those would be MB2A shows I would be excited to watch. I could also use a dose of positivity myself, and I think you would have some great insights in those moments and stories that show what America truly represents.

Well Bill I got something different you can discuss. I have a loving wife, 4 beautiful kids and a well paying job, and the love of Christ.
Sometimes we all need to step back and focus on home a little more.

I wonder if Bill’s topic will catch the survey I heard about (but not sure I believe) that people were feeling anxious about the pandemic being over because they did not know how to behave socially, or something like that.

Scott and Steve’s ideas about “they were not out to ruin you” could also be looked as the population is desensitized to all the attention getting things the news has done over the decades they have to amp it up even more.

On libel, I think reporting what someone else is saying is pretty lame as far as news, and any company using that as a defense should pretty much lose all of their advertisers. If you report what someone says without checking to see if what they said was true (which is the whole game of the “fact checkers”, at least as they claim) you’re pretty pathetic.
One way libel could be written is “any article written for money must have a minimum of research that can be proven”… a “show your work” exemption for proven falsity.
I like Steve’s idea, which I would phrase as “corrections must be run in the same section as the original story with the original size and emphasis”

I did see the clip Steve mentioned and I think I remember a clip put together of someone (possibly Trump) hitting a golf ball and Hillary Clinton falling down as well.

Took me a couple reads but I eventually caught what did you did, and did not, underline for emphasis. Nice one.

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