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You can take my privately-owned, missile, gun and torpedo-carrying frigate when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
You can take my privately-owned, missile, gun and torpedo-carrying frigate when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
What she leaves behind could fill a thousand concert halls.
But is it REALLY, though?
This week: Killer Cereals and Saturday Morning Cartoons!
It can make you feel like the king of the air and a lord of creation.
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.
You can take my privately-owned, missile, gun and torpedo-carrying frigate when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
And also there seems to be a nasty bug going around the Right Angle crew.
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.
Jon Voight reveals how to play The Heart of Gold and does a beat-by-beat walkthrough of Midnight Cowboy
Gary Sinise on Ken Mattingly and Supertruth in Apollo 13 and returning from the dead in Forrest Gump
Tom Dreesen uses his impeccable comic timing to kill with a joke, plus life on the road with Sinatra
Adam Baldwin on how to walk a fine line as the Tough Guy, and how to deadpan for a laugh in Firefly
Aeronautical design genius Burt Rutan talks about building his own space program and how to think outside the box.
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.
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.
One thing and one thing alone remains the foundation of the human experience: THE STORY.
Pace, Pitch, Volume and Tone: these are the fundamental tools of Storytelling 101
Mike and Bill discuss their methods used to reduce stage fright in this most stressful of storytelling scenarios.
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.
She was called ‘The Most Beautiful Woman that Ever Lived.’ They may have been right.
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.
I loved y’all’s Dolly tribute. I later saw a video of Judas Priest singer, Rob Halford, where he called her “A ball of light”. Such...Read More
You have no doubt seen by now that the narcissistic fantasist, Jason Arday, seems to have taken his own life. Arday, had managed to effectively...Read More
Those who know him best say he has ‘an encyclopedic mind,’ capable of grasping not only the deep nuances of any particular subject, but also...Read More
This is a reply to Bill’s latest TSL. 24th July. I love the Ice Darts.Universal Basic Income is already obsolete in Silicon Valley and Washington...Read More
Just a little piece inspired by the World Cup. On my frequent journeys to and from my Mum’s I can take one of two routes. One...Read More
Happy 250th!No lengthy observations. No dissection. No essay.Just a heartfelt Happy Birthday USA to all at BW.Com. Enjoy the dayDavey
GOOFY THOUGHT INCOMING! What about any interested members replying to questions in TSL TSS forums which were orphaned due to no show that night? Would love...Read More
So, Keir Starmer, or Queer Stalin as some had taken to calling him, has gone. I am for one am sorry to see him leaving,...Read More
Today I reimbursed my nephew for purchasing three shares of SpaceX. He was nervous. Many naysayers had posted about how this is Elon Musk's get-rich-quick...Read More
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.
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.
Catching up with backlogged uploads. Recorded 10/12/23
Catching up on old TSL episode postings. Please scroll down to The Stratosphere Lounge page for more in sequence.
Recorded 10/05/23
Catching up on backlogged TSL episodes.
Recorded 09/28/23
Catching up on re-posting old TSL episodes. Recorded 09/21/24
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.
Our biggest attention-getters, old and new
I gave it my best shot and an hour and twenty-five minutes later here’s everything I could muster on the subject.
You never know who you’re going to meet.
Or WHAT.
Whether or not they died in vain depends entirely on how — or even if — you remember them.
