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STORYTELLING 101 with Mike Rowe, Part Two: THE HOOK
Every story worth telling needs THE HOOK.
April 17, 2025
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Every story worth telling needs THE HOOK.
Every story worth telling needs THE HOOK.
Donald Trump won the 2024 Popular Vote by about 2,300,000 votes — or could it have been much more?
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It simply boils down to DON’T PANIC, but you probably already knew that…
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Donald Trump won the 2024 Popular Vote by about 2,300,000 votes — or could it have been much more?
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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.
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?
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In this third installment, host Bil Whittle looks at the most obvious of the Three Fronts: America’s decaying cities.
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.
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.
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One thing and one thing alone remains the foundation of the human experience: THE STORY.
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Every story worth telling needs THE HOOK.
One thing and one thing alone remains the foundation of the human experience: THE STORY.
It’s about the usurpation of the most powerful authority on the planet by a machine and whoever has access to it.
