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How L.A. Dies

One man, 36 hours, and seven hundred dollars: a cautionary tale about the future of my home for 37 years.

Right Angle

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: Personal Tales of D-Day; All About Twain; the USS Harvey Milk has abandoned ship; Good and Bad Immigrants and Three Unlikely SCOTUS wins… all this and so much less on this edition of Right Angle: Backstage!

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This week: Mission: Impossible; Website speed is back; The threat and promise of AI (we mean it this time); Decoration Day; the Big Military Parade and Trump Takes from Harvard and Gives to Trade Schools… all this and so much...

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This week: Norm Has Left the Building; Scott Adams is a Steely-Eyed Missile Man; A Few Good Men; Trump vs. the Republicans; Biden has Cancer; Being Elon ain’t no fun; Brand America never goes out of style; Rise of the...

HAMAS

Monsters. Monsters in the Deep.

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This week: The Karate Kid…again; other Hollywood abominations; drug prices worldwide; die, influencers!; handwriting wonders; coal digging heroes; Folk Music nightmare; your home is your castle insurance; online gambling; Skibbity Toilet; The Awkward Agent; the Bilinguist and No More Perks!…...

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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.

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. 

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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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(yeah, you'll all be singing this all day....)Oh Not So Long Ago….Everybody had to be authentic like a Rogan show…Then A.I. gave me my big...Read More

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I saw this A.I. little 3 minutes on X this morning.  A story of Elon and President Trump growing through the years.   Regret. Remorse. Reconciliation. ...Read More

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Really. Title is not satire.   Love Backstage. Where are the right angles? Knowing that no one reads the blogs except for 2 other members,  maybe they...Read More

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My father passed away in 2016 at the age of 91 and 11/12ths.  He rarely spoke of his time in the 1st Army in WWII. ...Read More

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I enthusiastically recommend R. R. Reno's book The Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West.  Among other feats, Reno...Read More

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It was 13 years ago, I learned of some group called Misfit Politics from 3 yokels on a show called.....TRIFECTA.They produced a little song about...Read More

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My wife is recovering from breast cancer. The surgery last July showed clean margians & clear lymph nodes, so she is completing the immunotherapy protocol,...Read More

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1Basic Story StructureThe following is an explanation of story structure which is based on conversationsbetween Mr. John Senior and a group of graduate students who...Read More

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Here's my answer... Hey Democrat "Senator"--and I use that term loosely since we really don't know if you were elected fairly or not---the reason we won't...Read More

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My comment in my previous post struck a nerve (ouch!)  and I was thinking we might get Bill to Build next to his studio  a...Read More

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.

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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.

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Every day when the work is behind youWhen the shop and the store put the lock on the doorJust get away where your worries won’t find youIf you like, I can tell you more
 
Don’t let the day get the better of youWhen the evening comes, there’s so much to doYou better put on your best and wear a smileJust come along with me a while‘Cause I tell you
 
I know a placeWhere the music is fine, and the lights are always lowI know a placeWhere we can go

Archives Island

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. 

Featured Posts

Our biggest attention-getters, old and new

How L.A. Dies

One man, 36 hours, and seven hundred dollars: a cautionary tale about the future of my home for 37 years.

Remember Them

Never forget how much we owe to those who never came home.