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Bill Whittle, Scott Ott and Steve Green bring you three different perspectives on three of the week’s top stories, with penetrating analysis, assorted-grade humor, and just a pinch of artisanally-selected, steel-cut snark; plus, an informal, wide-ranging, hour-long Member’s Only Backstage show: every week, without fail, since 2014.

BILL WHITTLE

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BILL WHITTLE

Bill Whittle has provided commentary for Fox News, National Review Online, the National Rifle Association, PJTV and many others. He has written and presented four historical series for The Daily Wire: Apollo 11: What We Saw; The Cold War: What We Saw; America’s Forgotten Heroes and An Empire of Terror.

In his free time Bill is an amateur historian, computer graphics artist, and is a thousand-hour, instrument-rated pilot of experimental aircraft. He married internationally known photographer Natalia Melnikova in 2016 and lives in Los Angeles.

SCOTT OTT

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SCOTT OTT

Scott Ott is father of four, husband of Stephanie, and delighted to call Texas home. Author of several books, he has created satire that Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and many others read on air. An experienced speaker, teacher and Christian preacher, he’s also a voice performer, and book narrator. He has been elected to office several times.

STEVE GREEN

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STEVE GREEN

Steve launched VodkaPundit on a well-planned whim in 2002 and has been working with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott since 2009. You can find his columns many times a week at pjmedia.com/vodkapundit. He lives with his wife and sons in the wooded hills of Monument, Colorado, where he enjoys the occasional adult beverage.

Latest Right Angle Episodes:

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This week: Scott Joplin and news apps; Beethoven’s Fourth; North Carolina hangs tough; the Emergency Covid Mask; plastic surgery plague; Kris Kristofferson and Pete Rose; Tim Walz Strides Forth; Jimmy Carter: the Great Deregulator; “Human Incubators”; Cat Fights on the...

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The Carolinas are taking a beating while Biden and Harris are taking a break.

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This week: Cheap Trick and the National Anthem; Oppenheimer; Israel vs. Hezbollah; Biden goes off the rails; public sector unions; Chinese vs. Japanese business ethics; Argentina stays the course; Honduras and El Salvador fight drug and street gangs; credit card...

Just Plain Spite

Petty, politically-motivated red tape is tying Starship to the launch pad!

A Heartbreaking Sound?

What effect should a person’s flaws have on the good works that they have performed?

Latest Right Angle Episodes:

Ephemera

I don’t think a day goes by without me seeing something genuinely wondrous on the internet, and so I finally decided that I would have to share them with as many people as I could. No politics here: just the weird and the wonderful without the slightest order or method. Just sit back and enjoy. 

Latest Ephemera Episodes:

Things To Come

THINGS TO COME will be Bill’s next signature series. In their book, The Fourth Turning, historians William Strauss and Neil Howe provide compelling evidence that historical cycles have repeated themselves throughout history. Bill Whittle uses this theory to try to see an outline of the coming crisis.

Latest Things to Come Episodes:

Things to Come, Part 1: The Theory

The book, The Fourth Turning, describes an eighty-year cycle for historical events. Is this cycle real, and if so, what can we learn from it?

Things to Come, Part 3: The Cities

In this third installment, host Bil Whittle looks at the most obvious of the Three Fronts: America’s decaying cities.

Things to Come, Part 4: The Border

The second of the Three Fronts will be more dispersed than The Cities, but will hold many of the same challenges, namely lawlessness, violence and genuine heartache.

Coming Soon:
Story Mechanics!

From Genesis to the Green Lantern, we humans have learned all of our moral values from the stories we tell to one another. In this brand-new series, host Bill Whittle will be having in-depth discussions with the mechanics that build our stories, as well as discussing the mechanics of how a good story is built. Confirmed so far are Jon Voight, Gary Sinise, Mike Rowe, Tom Dreesen, Adam Baldwin, Burt Rutan, Dick Rutan and Kelly Carlson, with more to follow. While we will release snippets from each episode, in the main this will be Members-Only content for the Citizen Producers here at BillWhittle.com.

Latest Story Mechanics Episodes:

Jon Voight

Jon Voight reveals how to play The Heart of Gold and does a beat-by-beat walkthrough of Midnight Cowboy

Gary Sinise

Gary Sinise on Ken Mattingly and Supertruth in Apollo 13 and returning from the dead in Forrest Gump

Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe on how to tell a great story and the archetype of the Regular Guy

Tom Dreesen

Tom Dreesen uses his impeccable comic timing to kill with a joke, plus life on the road with Sinatra

Adam Baldwin

Adam Baldwin on how to walk a fine line as the Tough Guy, and how to deadpan for a laugh in Firefly

Burt Rutan

Aeronautical design genius Burt Rutan talks about building his own space program and how to think outside the box.

Kelly Carlson

Kelly Carlson on how a nice girl plays the femme fatale on Nip/Tuck and reflects on some of the dangers that come with celebrity.

Dick Rutan

The living embodiment of the Steely-Eyed Missile Man, Dick Rutan talks about driving the Hun low and fast over Vietnam and flying for nine days without sleeping.

Coming Soon:
Major Mace Mattingly!

MAJOR MACE MATTINGLY and the Last Men on the Moon will be Bill’s irreverent look at the politics of today by viewing 2024 America through the eyes of four Steely-Eyed Missile Men who have been on a Top Secret US Military Moonbase since 1966! Rendered in the Unreal 5 game engine, this CGI series will be visual knockout as well as a heck of a lot of fun.

Latest Major Mace Mattingly Episodes:

The Stratosphere Lounge

The Stratosphere Lounge! Live and in living color since 2011. Come join the rest of the Stratoloungers at 9pm ET / 6pm PT (usually). Any topic, any time, will get you two to three hours of top-quality bloviation absolutely free. Especially popular with insomniacs and those in induced medical comas.

The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 382

Catching up on old TSL episode postings. Please scroll down to The Stratosphere Lounge page for more in sequence.

Recorded 10/05/23

The Stratosphere Studio

Sick to death of politics? ME TOO. That’s why we launched The Stratosphere Studio: entertainment, filmmaking, computer animation and pop-culture questions only, please. Live talks every Monday at 9pm ET / 6pm PT (usually) covering screenwriting, character archetypes and lessons and observations about the art of storytelling. Also, tons of work-in-progress renders of animation projects in the works, specifically The Colonies and D is for Dungeon… which is worth a watch.

Members Only Blog Posts

Distributed Intelligence is such a difficult thing for elitists to understand… not so much intellectually as emotionally. Here you will find some of the finest examples of this phenomenon: brilliant and funny insights from the thousands of Members here at BillWhittle.com.  It’s just one of the many benefits available to our Members, and one that I make a point to check as often as I can. To see more of those benefits, see the section immediately below.

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People have described Tim Walz as looking like a rabbit in the headlights. I think that's unfair, he made the average rabbit in the headlights...

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Hard to write this.  It's not my preference. Here is the child sex trafficking ignored.https://t.co/fZMkmfw5cP  Here is the election fraud ignored. Too big to rig? Idk. Chavez was...

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Orange Man Bad! Elon Musk support Orange Man. Elon Musk bad! That’s how deeply the Limousine Left is committed to SAVING THE PLANET: they are...

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This was an interesting article on Springfield, OH and the Haitian invasion:https://im1776.com/springfield-investigation/The whole thing was interesting, but this little bit of it:At one point in...

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Dear all on BW.com, here is something you really should watch. GB News did an interview with Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, of the Islamic House...

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It’s taken a long time for me to write anything on this as the situation evolved rapidly, facts have been elusive, and the whole affair...

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Three things on the blog in a row that should be under Right Angle. And normally you have  three Right Angles, one for Bill. Scott...

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Anyone know if our favorite Vodkapundit will be drunk-blogging the debate?If he does, I'll be there atPJM for the snark.  If he doesn't, I'll head to...

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With the postponement of Trump's sentencing until after the election, I think we can now be comfortably assured that the election is safely fixed. If...

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Back in March 2020, or somewhere near there....Bill and Scott hosted a Zoom meeting with a set number of invited  members.  Lasted an hour or...

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August 26, 2024  by Road Rider.  (yup, still writing my own by-lines)Niedermayer:  Whack!    Taxpayer:   Please Sir, May I have Another!It's the day after the...

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Long, long ago, in the Aforetimes, there was a previous version of this magnificent new website. But the code was old and decaying, and smelt like over-ripe mangos, and so creaky was its cobbled-together frame that you could go get a cup of coffee before a page finished loading. 
 
We did not bring this code with us, for it was mightily diseased; but we did, however, preserve it — and everything in it — and emplaced those ancient posts and episodes on a separate domain, so that those seeking the past could find the old site, but it could not find us. 

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How to beat Harris, Part 2: POLLS

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