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Surprise, surprise, surprise!

Hi everyone,

New member here, Henry.  I’ve been following Bill for years and the various programs he’s been associated with. I think the first thing I saw was the President video, I forget the title.  At that moment, I became a subscriber to anything he put out.

Before that, I had been following other common sense you tubers, most of which are long gone. This includes one of my favorites and in my opinion, one of the first to speak out in the political arena. I only stumbled across his content because he and I are musicians. He’s a killer drummer and he had a band that was working on an album so he would pop up in my related feed on you tube.  Then his other content would show up there and one day I watched a couple videos where he was commenting on political and social matters.  Not only did he connect with me on a musical level but he was saying the same things my friends and I were saying when politics crept into the conversation.

I followed his channel for a year or so and then he was gone. I didn’t think much about it at the time but often wondered what happened to him. That was several years ago.

Today, I watched the latest video from Bill and to my surprise, he mentions a name that spun me around in my office chair, Alfonzo Rachel.  I had to rewind the video to make sure I heard it correctly.  Apparently, a video is coming out soon with Bill and Alfonzo, this my friends is very interesting. I can’t wait to see how he is doing and what he and Bill are up to.

So in closing, I began my membership on 01/19/21 and now this exciting news today 01/20/21. I knew I was in the right place!  Sorry for the long introduction but I had to get it out of my head in order to concentrate on my music, I have a one track mind!

Thanks to Bill, Scott, Steve and everyone else this post reaches, carry on!

36 replies on “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”

Hi, yes i like him as well. He’s a converted lefty..
thanks for reaching out

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I love watching Blue Collar logic,” it’s a great channel, and Dave always has something thoughtful to say.

Welcome to our herd of cats! Love your “how I got here” story!

Speaking of music, I had a brief but successful career singing & acting in my local area, mostly in community theater but I was moderately well known as just a singer, too. Was once told, approvingly, “You have way too much soul for a white guy.” lol

Herding cats. ha ha. 🙂
I’ve been told many times I don’t dance like a white girl. LOL
Thanks for the chuckle today!

Herding cats is like pulling teeth from a chicken, and I’m tone deaf with two left feet.

Hi Michael, that’s quite the compliment, hope your still enjoying the craft.

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Welcome! I’ve been following Alfonzo since way back in 2008, when he made a videos in front of a cinder block wall in his apartment. I discovered Bill shortly after when he and the boys were part of PJTV. I loved the Firewall, Trifecta, and Afterburner episodes. It’s Bill’s knowledge of history and the way he can articulate it so well that drew me to him and this site.

Thank you Becky, yes the brick wall back drop and the drum kit! I swear I thought I was the only one. Glad to be among like minded brothers and sisters. I hadn’t thought of PJTV, Afterburner and Trifecta in years, time flies.
Have a stellar day Becky!

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Welcome Henry. I got turned on to Bill after watching a Firewall episode that popped up as a tile after watching a video on Youtube and followed him ever since. I’ve even gone back and watched some of his stuff on PJTV and NRATV.

I was also one of these guys who watched for free until I got shamed into paying for it! I’ve been a member since late September.

Hi David, as you and others have mentioned the time line that led us here, it’s all starting to come back to me. I couldn’t in good conscience continue to watch the content when Bill was looking dead in my eyes and asking for help. Like my son’s little league baseball games, I’m a spectator until I see a reason to become involved.
Thanks for the welcome wagon David!

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Hey Henry, that’s true in my experience too. The stuff we’re made of must be a scarce resource, or they received a cease and desist letter, he he!

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Well, Howdy, I recently joined too and have been following Bill Whittle for a long time myself. I first saw him in videos involving aircraft. Like Bill, I am an enthusiast. My father flew fighters, P51’s and P47’s, across the English Channel during WWII. He flew as a fighter escort for the B17’s in the P51; he loved that plane, bombing, strafing, and generally destroying supply trains and troop movements by the Germans in the 47’s which he called “The Beast.” Like Bill, I am a fan of Bert Rutan and think his Starship designed for Beech Craft is among the world’s most beautiful aircraft.

Hi James, I was totally captivated by the story of your father. I’m not a historian but I did serve in the U.S. Army. Correct me if I’m wrong, he would have been in the Army as the Air Force had not yet been constructed. I don’t know those details or dates but it seems right.
As I mentioned, I’m a musician so I process information in a strange way at least to non-musicians. The P-51 is my favorite simply because it looks cool as hell but the P-47 from what I’ve gathered, was a pilot’s plane, reliable and tough as nails.
-“My P-47 she’s a pretty good ship, she took a round coming across the channel last trip but I was thinking about my baby and letting her rip, she always got me through so far”- Steve Earle (2nd verse from a song called “Johnny Come Lately”)
A crisp, snappy salute to your father!

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If you’re talking fighters, don’t forget the Spitfire. The P51 wasn’t very good until they stuck the Rolls Royce Merlin into it.

Yes, the bubble top canopy P51D with the Merlin was known as the ME109 killer. Such a beautiful plane, dang. He loved the P47 too, called it the beast because it had the awesome power of the turbocharged twin wasp to pull it quickly out of trouble. It was interesting how the turbo was behind and below the pilot. My father said he used to dive, roll her sideways on one wing, and spray all 8 50s into a train filled with troops and supplies, and once he got in range of the locomotive(s), he’d roll her back flat, dropped a bomb while pulling hardback on the stick and hitting the throttle. LoL, he’d get all excited while telling the stories. At the same time, he was very solemn about the B17 escorts. Thousands of planes left in the morning, and sometimes less than half came back in the evenings; each 17 had a crew of 10 to 11, damn. The loss of life was staggering.

I’m out of my element in the aviation topic but I can go all day when calibers enter the conversation . 8 50s, I’m guessing four per wing. I’ve sent a ton of 50 cal.rounds down range while the M-2 (ma deuce) purred like a pissed off tiger. We had to change the barrel out regularly even while maintaining short burst discipline. I wonder how they mitigated that while airborne? Those guys were tough as leather!

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The problem with airborn armament is ammo storage. I think maximum trigger time was something like 90 seconds of sustained fire. Short well placed bursts, then you went home. Someone told me you could select fire 4 guns and save the others for when you ran out, but that is conjecture.

Music is math, I’m an engineer, and engineering is all about mathematics. I’m not a musician, but I “gork” them well. A little reference to R.H. Heinlein for those that get it. And yes, he was in the Army Air Corps. I even have his letters home to his parents, my grandparents.

Correct, music is math. Lucky for me, the music I write and play is mostly 4/4 and my drummer can’t play anything faster than a 16th note.

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Alfonzo still has a Youtube channel, but the powers that be absolutely MURDERED him in the algorithm. You have to look for him specifically. He won’t just pop up in your feed anymore.

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