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26 Is The New 13

To put it simply, light may have been lying to us about the age of the Universe

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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: Ghostbusters;  A Collective Presidency and the Goldenrod Tyranny; the Parable of the Community Blanket; a Brief History of Texas; Oil Output reaches all-time high; the Baltimore Bridge; weeping over Soyuz; The Wrecking Crew; 70’s TV ads and Candace...

26 Is The New 13

To put it simply, light may have been lying to us about the age of the Universe

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This week: webcam autofocus; AI avatars; Buckeroo and Kimo Sabe; old comic strips; soap operas; True Tales of Disk Defragging; Falcon 9 in person; Space Fairies; Nvidia conquers the world; SCSI and dip switches; and Minor League Awesomeness with the...

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This week: Scott has trouble focusing; The Great Jimmy Cagney stomps the ground into submission; “The Slaughter of Civility and Truth”; Ragtime, Masters of the Air, the Blair Witch Project and A Fish Called Wanda; good CG is invisible CG;...

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This week: cold water tips to keep you cool; Swamp Coolers and Slip-n-Slides; Dune 2; The Great Tardigrade Invasion!; homes for addicts and the mentally ill; and a brief run-down on a new book called ‘Why Kids Kill’ … all...

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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.

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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 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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I assume all of us are getting sick and tired of smarmy, arrogant leftist politicians and "news" anchors pontificating about how every person they disagree...

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Why you Matter(Wow, this is really not the tone I wanted, but it's sincere. My goal is to thank you for what you do because...

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Watching Jacob Chansley summarily dispense of the tyrants who jailed him by breaking down the con game they've been running on Americans to steal our...

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Our elections are being rigged in the name of national security and now they want to steal our free speech along with our vote via...

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.Let's get up early,  EARLY! for the #3 Starship launch.  7am Central ,  5am Pacific.  Yup,  EARLY!  Coffee, check.  Pot, check.  Water, check.  Let's go Starship!

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.It's not easy, but I found a way to compliment Daily Wire on Empire of Terror.Went to their support page,  engaged the stupid bot,  and...

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After the last Backstage, I downloaded Next Spaceflight app on Google Play and installed on my phone.  Amazing.  First thing I saw when I installed...

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In the peculiar annals of the 2012 Projectile Vomiting Olympics, the unexpected hero emerged in the most unlikely guise—documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. The Olympic stadium,...

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Upon yon mire where swine doth graze with glee, In fields of slop, where oinks and grunts entwine, A porcine revelry, a feast so free,...

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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. 

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