Into the Spiderverse (again), left-wing comedians complaining about the fruits of their ideology, ‘The Office’ (foreign and domestic), The great William Manchester, radiation therapy and defending the moon landing… all this and so much less on this edition of Right Angle: Backstage.
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Hey Steve, check out the Bobiverse books series, it’s solid sci-fi, just fantastic, same with the Troy Rising series, both are brilliant. Obligatory plug for the Expanse novels as well, they came first and told the story better than the show could ever capture.
Hey Scott, you are right, the second-stage rocket they used has a shorter bell, which saves weight and production cost, it also makes it shorter, meaning that they can get an extra 1 or 2 feet of space for the payload. Interesting story about those, during the first launches of SpaceX, the engine bell that had cracked, and instead of delaying the mission and losing the company they just cut the bell above the crack, and it performed flawlessly. That was their first successful mission to orbit, well before they also started to try to land the rocket.
For a better telling check out Marcus House on youtube. https://youtu.be/KIb2lHjHuVA
If the Earth were truly flat, surely everything on the Earth would by now have been pushed by cats over the edge and into the vast emptiness of space.
Hey! I posted that same comment on this board a while back.
Still true, and funny though.š
Bill, maybe this’ll help your impression of Ben. He’s the only guy, AFAIK, that had two major capitol ships, two carriers, named after him in commission at the same time.
I like “Young Guns”. But “Young Guns II” is better
2 guys trying to get their comments in….1 guy with his audio way down just talking away. I kept hearing Meat Loaf’s Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad playing over and over in my head.
This Backstage was ….whoops! Got cut off in mid comment…
I don’t know if Steve reads the comments (if not, I hope someone can pass this on to him); I strongly recommend reading the works of Larry Correia, especially his Monster Hunter International books. He also recently published a best-selling non-fiction book, In Defense of the Second Amendment.
Second that recommendation. Also “Faerie Tale” by Raymond Feist. Scariest book I’ve ever read, including Lovecraft. (And I’ve read all of his) Don’t read it at night.
And by the way, Steve has replied to some comments, so he might get it.
They Live stunk. Iām with Steve.
Emily Latella: “What’s all this fuss I hear about They Live stinking? I think I saw “They” open up for Rush at the Shoreline Amphitheater in 1992. I kind of disagree, I think They Live is much better than They in the recording studio. Just my opinion though…..
Chevy Chase: “Um.. Emily…that’s They Live…the Movie….not a band…”
Emily: “Oh….never mind!”
Just love these rambling discussions I trace the weaponization of the law back to True Grit ,”You draw lawyer Daggett like a gun”.
Steve, for conservative science fiction brain candy, I highly recommend the “April” series of books by Mackey Chandler. If you try the first book (“April”) I can pretty much guarantee you’ll want to read more; fun stories, great characters and mini-lessons in economics, politics, etc., presented in an engaging, easy to read manner.
Noted, thanks!
See road runners comment and my reply/recommendation.
You are welcome.
So many things to comment on this week! First, I realized long ago that the only reason for an HR Department is to prevent lawsuits against the company, not to make things better for the employees. It’s all CYA. I worked for the Federal government for a few years, and at one point we had to go through “ethics” training. You can’t teach ethics, and, like Bill, it was insulting to be accused before committing an offense.
Second, I have been through radiation treatment for cancer twice — the first time was 8 years ago and again last December. Both times precise measurements were taken to ensure the beam hit the right spot. I had an MRI and small dot tattoos were placed on my body to line up the equipment the same way every time. I didn’t suffer any burns or adverse effects, except when I saw what my insurance was charged for the treatments. That about made my head explode! š
Always a pleasure and this time quite an extended one!
“They Live” remains one of my all time favorite movies. It is even more relevant now than when it was first produced. The fight scene in the alley, which Steve called poorly choreographed, is worth the price of admission all by itself. That’s all I have to say. I’m all out of bubble gum.
Are you ever going to put this on Rumble? Now that we know they do have the capability to have private channels. The reason why you weren’t, that Scott gave me, is no longer relevant.
So what can I do to help get you guys out from under the thumb of the Alphabet Inc. tech tyrants? I’ve already offered a sure fire way to reclaim your video content…so what else can we do to make change?
I hear you mention what’s going on more on your TSL show, but I can’t catch your TSL shows, partly because of the time of day, but also because Twitch sucks, and as you know by now, I don’t use The BeastTube anymore.
I’m just trying to help you guys get back on top, but some see it as me merely complaining. If I didn’t care, I wouldn’t say anything.
I just love these Backstage shows!
American business, especially the business of medicine, is steadily being ruined by Bill’s brief example of the interactions of lawsuits and cartoonish costs to defend them. That is where reforms are most needed to unleash the economy.
Love this discussion. Can’t wait to see the right angle vids coming up this week!
When you’re talking about extending monkey lives, my media-saturated brain responds with a snide “extend uneventful, empty lives in prisons (zoos) and compounds”. Then I thought of real life battles of chimpanzees in the wild attacking neighboring tribes and ripping them apart while they are still alive. Then I thought of the American West in the 19th century where the Comanche horse culture suddenly took over the southern plains, slaughtering other tribes and stealing their food (instead of raising it themselves) and women (and others as slaves).
Real life history is so much less ideal than the media’s romanticized treatment that is burrowed incessantly into our heads.
Thank you Steve, for the 3’s Company earworm.